Eat your heart out
Book Arts
A simple book I designed and built.
This is a book.
I am in a book arts class and I am learning some really cool things. This is the first completed project for the class. It’s called a long stitch. The examples we observed in class looked like this, and this is the style that most of the students did. But me? I don’t really like leather. So I found some corrugated plastic at my local sign shop and achieved a completely different aesthetic.
I rather like it. More images after the jump.
A close-up view of the binding. Holes poked in with a hot needle, like butter.
Velcro makes for a clean closure and a noisy opening. Also, notice the channel cut out for each 'hinge'.
Eight signatures of hefty Mohawk superfine will make for sketchbook magic (at least that is the idea).
Elissa | September 27, 2009
http://blueroofdesigns.wordpress.com
I love the book! Such a clever use of materials. Just out of curiosity, how much did the corrugated material cost? Where did you take your class?
Evan MacDonald | September 27, 2009
http://evanmade.com
Thanks!! The plastic is fairly inexpensive. You can find it at good art stores (like Utrecht, Pearl, Dick Blick, etc). Or just search for Stratocore.
I don’t have ready access to these fantastic stores, so I picked some up from my local sign shop. This was a scrap, so they gave it to me for free!
I am taking this class at BYU-Idaho. I am a BFA in Graphic Design student there.
Cheers!