My name is Sky and I am a student in London. I am an illustrator who also makes books.
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Come to the opening night and see our final exhibit for Book arts and design at LCC!
Guests need to either print off a copy or show on their phone to gain entry
Book Making Workshops
I had the pleasure of working with some wonderful children today at the Pound Arts arts centre in Corsham. They had great ideas and produced amazing books. I love days like today!
It was the first time I have been to Pound Arts; it’s great venue with lovely staff www.poundarts.org.uk
Awwww!!!!!!! I would love to make books with children.
Simple and quick perfect bind using a stapler.
1. Have duplex prints ready to bind, crop marks are suggested.
2. Using binder clips, clamp your book along the edge that will later be bound.
3. With a steady hand, metal ruler, and fresh x-acto, trim edges of book starting (and this is important) with the right, then top and bottom.
4. With a ruler, mark the left edge of your book a quarter inch from the spine at the top and bottom of the page.
5. Using a heavy duty stapler (the kind that can handle large stacks), staple in three to four places along your quarter inch margin, using even spacing.
6. Place a scrap sheet of paper over each staple and hammer the staple down until it is mostly flush with the page. Repeat for each staple on the front and back.
7. Trim excess paper. You can cut right up to the staples.
8. Finally, trim a piece of self-adhering or basic bookcloth to your preferred size, and attach to the spine. Place on a clean, flat surface and weigh down while drying.
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Icinori is a small DIY silkscreen publisher based in France, featuring the work of Raphael Urwiller and Mayumi Otero, and friends. Urwiller and Otero produce all of the books and posters which are for sale in small editions and sell out quickly. The pop-up above appears to be their newest wordless book which is quite grand. More of their brightly-colored work can be seen below, and on their blog and flickr site. I cannot wait to see more work from them.
Via Letterology
THIS IS AMAZING!!! AAAAMMMAZZZING!!!
Classic
A6 handmade Classic sketchbook. Using 130gsm white paper for non-ruled signatures with different colours of head and tail. Selling at MCCM bookshop.
Tasty
Last week I co-taught a winter arts camp over two afternoons for a group of 6-12 year-olds. We played tons of games and created books, using (among other things) fabric collage and block-printing.
Doing internet research before the camp, I came across some really useful bookmaking websites. In particular, both Bookmaking with Kids and makingbooks.com are awesome resources. After trying out a few different simple book patterns, I ended up settling upon the Stick and Elastic Book. I followed the pattern pretty much exactly, but added covers to this pattern, made of a thicker paper. This meant that the children had a stiff front and back cover to decorate, as well as 8 ‘inside pages’ to work with. I pre-cut, folded, and hole-punched the inside paper and cover paper. During the camp, the children went outside to select their own sticks. They also chose their own elastic band colour. I then walked them through the assembly process (in groups of 6). This was fairly simple, and it was nice that it didn’t involve sewing (some of the younger children still needed help threading their elastic bands through the pre-cut holes). Because of the book design, the children were also able to take apart and put together their books if they wanted to.
The books were all very unique and beautiful. I’m excited to try out more bookmaking activities in future classes!
Book making with children :D what a brilliant idea!!!
