we went to a book making workshop at salford this morning, which at first i thought wouldn’t be so helpful, but actually found it really insightful and quite fun. We started of by learning about the grain of paper, and how printing against the grain can affect the book, we also learnt about weights of paper for example 40 gsm paper, would be thin photocopy paper, were as a higher gsm of 150 would be thick quality paper.
We started off by making a “beak” book, requiring you to fold a piece of landscape paper in half and then half again, then turning it back to portrait and folding it in half. Unfold the paper, and fold it in half landscape ways and cut it to halfway, so when you open it out you get a “beak” effect. In addition to this we tried making “Trouser” books and concertina books.
We also got to look through some artist examples using the techniques we had just learnt. i found this part extremely helpful, with our current brief, were i felt that i had to be very precise with the book/magazine that i made, so it had a Swiss graphic design feel to it, however, after looking through some examples, i realise i could be more free and creative with what i made, so i intend to experiment with different structures and shapes over the weekend to see what kind of interesting results that i can create.
Books made by the Artist who lead the workshop.
Lucy May Schofield.
No comments:
Post a Comment