Assignment 5: Your choice
It's time for the final assignment where I will be using all of my previous knowledge to produce a book design of my choice. I've been...
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- Art & Illustration by Andrew Thornton -
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
- Mar 9, 2022
- 6 min
Exercise 5.5: Reflective Practice
As the title of this exercise suggests, I was asked to reflect on everything I have experienced leading up to this point in creative book...
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- Mar 8, 2022
- 7 min
Exercise 5.4: Printing
In this exercise I was encouraged to experiment by printing my own images on the the different paper types I had gathered before. I was...
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- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Exercise 5.3: On Press
This exercise asked me to think about the printing process and opens with a quote from Alan Pipes' On Press chapter, from his 2009...
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- Mar 6, 2022
- 4 min
Exercise 5.2: Planning your workflow
The next exercise was to plan my workflow, to think ahead for each stage of production so that I could decide the scope of my project,...
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
Exercise 5.1: What is your role?
Exercise 1 asks me to consider the roles at each stage of book production and how they will apply to me as I work towards Assignment 5....
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
Research Task: Book Fairs
Part 5 consists of a series of research and planning exercises that supports the final assignment where I will be designing and producing...
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- Mar 2, 2022
- 8 min
Assignment 4: Altered Book
This final assignment was something that I had been looking forward to since I started this section and involved finding and...
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- Mar 2, 2022
- 5 min
Exercise 4.4: Collating and Binding
Following on once more from the progress made in the previous exercise, I was asked to review, collate and rebind the images I have been...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 5 min
Exercise 4.3: Sequencing Images
This exercise continued on from the last one by again working with Tango With Cows as my inspiration, but this time to construct a...
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- Feb 26, 2022
- 7 min
Exercise 4.2: Concrete Poetry
This exercise asked me to look at concrete poetry, a literary and visual art form where poets have enhanced their words through the...
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- Feb 20, 2022
- 5 min
Exercise 4.1: Paper Ephemera
Similarly to my collection of paper samples that I did for a research task for Part 2, I was asked to gather more paper ephemera. Where...
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- Feb 14, 2022
- 5 min
Research Task: Exploring Artists' Books
Part 4 starts with a focus on altered books, which presents an interesting set of exercises and an assignment with lots of room for...
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- Jan 20, 2022
- 4 min
Reflections: Creative Book Design Part 3
I've received my feedback for part 3 and after a troubled development process slowed me down during this section, I'm pleased that the...
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- Jan 12, 2022
- 9 min
Assignment 3: My Little Book Of...
After familiarising myself with using the Bridgeman and Oxford Art online image libraries outlined in research task 3, I moved on to work...
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- Oct 14, 2021
- 8 min
Exercise 3.3: Experimental Typography
Research Task 2: Choosing A Typeface Before the following exercise, I read through the chapter 'on choosing a typeface’ in the book,...
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- Sep 14, 2021
- 7 min
Exercise 3.2: Double-page spread
Following on from my research task on the golden section and grids, in this exercise I wanted to put those grids into practice through...
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- Aug 20, 2021
- 5 min
Research Task: The Golden Section
For this area of research I looked into instances of the Golden section as it appears in nature, design and artwork, including where can...
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- Jul 31, 2021
- 7 min
Exercise 3.1: Type Samples
Part 3 has a focus on typography and image as key areas of book design. Working with typography is something that I have not heavily...
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 4 min
Reflections: Creative Book Design Part 2
I've received my feedback from Part 2 of Creative Book Design, and it's been some of the most rewarding reassurance that I'm on the right...
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- Jun 30, 2021
- 14 min
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...
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- Jun 13, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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- Jun 9, 2021
- 8 min
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...
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- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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- May 17, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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- Apr 30, 2021
- 10 min
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...
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- Apr 16, 2021
- 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...
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- Mar 25, 2021
- 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,...
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- Mar 17, 2021
- 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...
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- Mar 16, 2021
- 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...
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- Mar 16, 2021
- 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...
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- Mar 12, 2021
- 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...
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- Mar 11, 2021
- 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...
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- Mar 5, 2021
- 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...
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- Feb 12, 2021
- 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...
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- 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...
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- Aug 31, 2020
- 6 min
Reflections: Key Steps In Illustration (Part 5)
My formative feedback has arrived for Part 5 and as I have done with the other four sections, I'll be once again picking out the key...
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- Jul 14, 2020
- 8 min
Assignment 5: Seven Days
I arrived at Assignment 5 and more than any of the other exercises and assignments, this was a very open project to create something...
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- Jul 13, 2020
- 5 min
Exercise 5.7: Educational Strip
I was asked to produce a series of educational illustrations to be used in schools based around the subject of puberty. Titled "What's...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 6 min
Exercise 5.6: Working For Children
Working for children is always a fun challenge and for this exercise I needed to examine the differences between the types of imagery for...
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- Jul 8, 2020
- 5 min
Exercise 5.5: Packaging
In this project, I was asked to design packaging for a range of organic biscuits. The biscuit flavours would be Raisin, Chocolate Chip...
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- Jul 7, 2020
- 5 min
Exercise 5.4: Text and Image
This exercise was a short experiment in playing around with text and fonts. I was led through stages of giving a list of words character...
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- Jul 1, 2020
- 8 min
Exercise 5.3: Travel guides
For this exercise, I was asked to create covers for three travel guides for the cities of Istanbul, Helsinki and Milan. This was a very...
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 9 min
Exercise 5.2 Editorial Illustration
This exercise was centred around examining and producing images for articles as editorial illustrations and it made me think back to the...
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- May 30, 2020
- 5 min
Exercise 5.1: Your Own Work
The first exercise for part five had an interesting premise. I was asked to review my previous work with the aim of selecting pieces that...
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- May 6, 2020
- 8 min
Reflections: Key Steps In Illustration (Part 4)
I've now completed Part 4 and it has been assessed, so it's time to review how I'm doing. Part 4 was a challenging one for me, but I'm...
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- Apr 14, 2020
- 5 min
Assignment 4: Magazine Illustration
For my fourth assignment, I was asked to produce an illustration relating to one of the following themes: Lost | Disaster | Discovery |...
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- Apr 12, 2020
- 5 min
Exercise 4.7 Character Development
The premise of this exercise was to explore character development, something that I was interested to finally give a go. Whenever a video...
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- Apr 10, 2020
- 4 min
Exercise 4.6: Visual Distortion
This exercise was an exploration into distorting images to form a style, and was designed to force me to edit, change and distort through...
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