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...

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...

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...

This exercise asked me to think about the printing process and opens with a quote from Alan Pipes' On Press chapter, from his 2009...

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,...

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....

Part 5 consists of a series of research and planning exercises that supports the final assignment where I will be designing and producing...

This final assignment was something that I had been looking forward to since I started this section and involved finding and...

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...

This exercise continued on from the last one by again working with Tango With Cows as my inspiration, but this time to construct a...

This exercise asked me to look at concrete poetry, a literary and visual art form where poets have enhanced their words through the...

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...

Part 4 starts with a focus on altered books, which presents an interesting set of exercises and an assignment with lots of room for...

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...

After familiarising myself with using the Bridgeman and Oxford Art online image libraries outlined in research task 3, I moved on to work...

Research Task 2: Choosing A Typeface Before the following exercise, I read through the chapter 'on choosing a typeface’ in the book,...

Following on from my research task on the golden section and grids, in this exercise I wanted to put those grids into practice through...

For this area of research I looked into instances of the Golden section as it appears in nature, design and artwork, including where can...

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...

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...

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...

This exercise explored the idea of reinterpreting a book cover for a for a new edition of a previously released book. Re-releasing of...

This exercise was split into four sections, beginning with research into a long list of fifteen unique cover designers, then comparing...

I read chapter 6 'On Press' from Alan Pipes' Production for graphic designers and found the extra information on the technical side of...

Now with more knowledge of book terminology, I moved on to the main exercise of looking at paper and binding options, starting with paper...

To familiarise myself with the correct terminology and phrases when talking about the main parts of a book, I looked at the suggested...

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...

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...

For my first book design assignment, I was asked to create my own A5 fanzine publication. This initially sounded like a daunting task,...

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...

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...

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...

This exercise was the first of several connected exercises that leaned more on the physical aspects of creative book design and I was...

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...

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...

After finding my preferred workflow back in KSI-1, I started my first exercise in Creative Book Design after a hiatus between course...

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...

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...

I arrived at Assignment 5 and more than any of the other exercises and assignments, this was a very open project to create something...

I was asked to produce a series of educational illustrations to be used in schools based around the subject of puberty. Titled "What's...

Working for children is always a fun challenge and for this exercise I needed to examine the differences between the types of imagery for...

In this project, I was asked to design packaging for a range of organic biscuits. The biscuit flavours would be Raisin, Chocolate Chip...

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...

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...

This exercise was centred around examining and producing images for articles as editorial illustrations and it made me think back to the...

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...

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...

For my fourth assignment, I was asked to produce an illustration relating to one of the following themes: Lost | Disaster | Discovery |...

The premise of this exercise was to explore character development, something that I was interested to finally give a go. Whenever a video...

This exercise was an exploration into distorting images to form a style, and was designed to force me to edit, change and distort through...