7 days ago 4 min 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...
Mar 25 5 min Assignment 1: Your zine For my first book design assignment, I was asked to create my own A5 fanzine publication. This initially sounded like a daunting task,...
Mar 17 3 min Exercise 1.7: Visualising, editing and Critiquing Now that I had some hand on experience with on how a book could be formatted for print, I started thinking about how I could edit my...
Mar 16 2 min Exercise 1.6: Folding and mocking up your book This was a short and simple exercise guided me through making my own printed mock ups, which gave me insights into some of the ways that...
Mar 16 4 min Exercise 1.5: Research & development Following on directly from the last exercise, I now needed to select some of my designs to refine and develop into a mock-up through the...
Mar 12 2 min Exercise 1.4: Generating Ideas This exercise was the first of several connected exercises that leaned more on the physical aspects of creative book design and I was...
Mar 11 5 min Exercise 1.3: Alternative Publications Before the practical side of this exercise began, I was first asked to research artist books and fanzines, both of which are areas that I...
Mar 5 6 min Exercise 1.2: The Future of the Book I've not done academic research where I needed to digest a written piece and then write my personal responses in quite a while, but I...
Feb 12 8 min Exercise 1.1: Influential Books After finding my preferred workflow back in KSI-1, I started my first exercise in Creative Book Design after a hiatus between course...
Dec 31, 2020 2 min End Of Year Update: 2020 To say that this year was a difficult one for everyone would be a grand understatement on an international level, but for my own end of...
