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Book Design 1 - Creative Book Design


Assignment 2: Form and Function
At the end of part 2, my assignment was to reimagine two covers for Daniel Defoe's famous 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Intended to be...
Jun 30, 202114 min read
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Exercise 2.4: Designing A Cover
This exercise explored the idea of reinterpreting a book cover for a for a new edition of a previously released book. Re-releasing of...
Jun 13, 20215 min read
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Exercise 2.3: Book Designers
This exercise was split into four sections, beginning with research into a long list of fifteen unique cover designers, then comparing...
Jun 9, 20218 min read
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Research Task: Paper and Bookbinding
I read chapter 6 'On Press' from Alan Pipes' Production for graphic designers and found the extra information on the technical side of...
May 26, 20212 min read
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Exercise 2.2: Paper and binding choices
Now with more knowledge of book terminology, I moved on to the main exercise of looking at paper and binding options, starting with paper...
May 25, 20215 min read
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Research Task: Book Terminology
To familiarise myself with the correct terminology and phrases when talking about the main parts of a book, I looked at the suggested...
May 17, 20214 min read
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Exercise 2.1: The Function of Books
In this section I was asked to think critically about the form and function of books, starting with this first exercise where I needed to...
Apr 30, 202110 min read
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Reflections: Creative Book Design (Part 1)
I've received my feedback for part 1 of Creative book design and as with my previous unit, I'm returning to my reflections to see where I...
Apr 16, 20214 min read
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