5 hours ago 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...
Jun 30 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...
Jun 13 5 min Exercise 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 9 8 min Exercise 3: Book Designers This exercise was split into four sections, beginning with research into a long list of fifteen unique cover designers, then comparing...
May 26 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...
May 25 5 min Exercise 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 17 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...
Apr 30 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...
Apr 16 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,...
