It is time to sit down and write something about my book, from the very beginning to the final product.

Endmatter

...if you feel a need to keep the juices flowing
you might try the Wayzgoose in Grimbsy.

..or you might like the World Washi Summit (yours truly will be showing work and teaching some workshops there)

...also watch the postings on the Bulletin Board at CBBAG (Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild)

...have a great summer!

Good Luck Everybody!

another question

hi
i have question!

do we include an imprint page?
do we do the whole copy right information and such?
i know us designers like to include the colophon, but how do we talk about the publishing information if it's not being..published?

maybe these are silly questions, but let me know!
:)

printer

This is the printer that I found in Markham.
They have Perfector Printing which prints double sided pages in register.
(Marek was saying how his pages got white lines. With this, you won't get that.)

Picked up this book today. A better description is that it's actually 16 books in one. Each with a different cover, which can all be flipped. The die cuts? Insane. Extremely well done - after all, look who designed it. I'll bring it into class tomorrow. And yes, its 5:42am.

Check out this Popup by Marion Bataille!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sesd_popup-by-marion-bataille_creation

Making a Book...

"Making a book is like making a child: nothing unusual or special. People do it every day. Yet it can make your skull and bones glow like a light globe, cause the earth to lurch and sag beneath your feet, bring you nose to nose with the universe, and fuse your mind and body so it seems as if they'll never come unglued."

-Robert Bringhurst

due date

hello

i am not quite sure when the final book is due.
what day do we need to hand it in to you by?

thanks!

(happy book designing, everyone!)

Moleskine Simon Levandowski notebook @ Detour exhibition

Book Binder, look to the west

I found this book binder in St Catharines, obviousy a little far from Toronto but definately worth the treck.
They even have some YSDN books in their portfolio, so they do take student/one of projects.

http://www.bookbindniagara.com

Canadian Book Designer: Jason Dewinetz

see his fabulous work here

The Future of Reading?

read this "flip book" here
try out the search function (e.g. type in Paris)

This book is from an on-line archive of texts, videos, music and audio here

Anyone Feeling a Bit Precarious?

Heavenly Monkey

some excellent Canadian Private Press work here

Blowing My Own Horn

you can also find me here
click on any image to enlarge

first post ever

So....this is my first post...I don't usually do these blog things, but Reg assured me that I might get some marks out of it.

So I'm just a little bit over a quarter of the way done my book. I'm really having a lot of fun designing this thing, I can really do whatever I want with it, and that's the way I like it.

As of yet I haven't had much trouble, I established a style that I'm carrying through the entire book.

If I figure out how to use this blog I'll try post a couple jpegs of the spreads...maybe...if I feel like giving it away...lol

cheers
dan

Russell Maret

...some beautiful examples of contemporary book and typographic design at Russell Maret's site.

A Douglas Coupland manipulation of his own manuscripts.

“Generation X,” detail.

“Generation X,” paper and magnolia branch, 2004.

These images are part of an art project Douglas Coupland created out of several of his different novels. The article can be viewed here.
I stumbled upon it while doing research for another class and thought it was neat.

Dorothy Simpson Krause

an inspiring portfolio of bookart
here and here

bookstairs

For those who’ve got a few too many books, here’s one storage solution: London-based firm Levitate designed this library staircase for an overburdened client.

Exhibitions, lectures and Workshop in York

I'm pleased to announce the series of events centered around Iranian graphic design happening this month in York. Fortunately there is no escape as it will be held in Studio 4 and the hallway.
For details visit the event website

Woman's World: a graphic novel

"Graham Rawle has painstakingly collected words and phrases from 1960s women’s magazines in order to tell Norma’s subversive story. Once removed from their context, the words have been reassembled to make the unique novel that is Woman’s World ­ rich with the flavour and moral tone of the ‘donor’ material and as poignant as it is joyful."
-go here

Anyone need a bookbinder?

you can contact Wyman Chu at:
wyman.chu@sympatico.ca

or phone her at Cover N Pages:
416 219 9338

The hardest part...

"The hardest part is never a lack of ideas, but how to merge a mass of them into a cohesive whole. This requires unleashing a system of parameters and investigating their logical consequences. That is to say, once certain design decisions are set, their interaction leads directly to the rest of the design development. It's as if the book designs itself."
-Martin Venezky

Sculpted in Paper

see Jen Stark's work here

Where Is It All Going?

A Slight Shift designed by RGB
see the rest of the clocks here

Peter Mendelsund

"This is an updated, revised and greatly expanded edition of an interview that Peter Mendelsund graciously undertook for Books Covered. As a senior designer at Knopf and the art director for Vertical Press, an independent Japanese-American publisher, Peter has risen to become part of the all-star lineup of designers at Random House, including John Gall, Carol Devine Carson, and Chip Kidd." Read the interview here

Seen Reading

1. I see you reading.
2. I guesstimate where you are in the book.
3. I trip on over to the bookstore and make a note of the text.
4. I let my imagination rip.
5. Readers become celebrities.
6. People get giddy and buy more books.

visit Seen Reading here

-image by Nadia over at Squiddity

A blog on its way to becoming a proper book

I have been visiting Strange Maps blog for a while now, and i'm glad to know that now the author is now putting together a book based on the blog.
As Reg keeps saying in the class it goes to show the potential a blog has both in terms of casual look and feel and also lack of legal issues –in this case copyright– .
Remember the only motive for her in making this blog into a book is the feedback she got from the visitors, that can be very helpful for all of us putting together a book in a very very short time.

Field Trip to Art Metropole

"ABC.....with love (too cool for school)"

-new exhibit at Art Metropole

-how to get there

BibliOdyssey

"Books - Illustrations - Science - History - Visual Materia Obscura - Eclectic Bookart" - all at this site.

Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies

Centripetalnotion.com features amazing book work by Brian Dettmer. I thought these were really interesting  and beautifully done. I can't imagine how long the process was to make these. Collage is one of my favourite methods of art-making, and this goes far beyond anything I have seen in print.

Book with Tea

here is the site of Robin Kinross's excellent Hyphen Press and in particular an article about what affects a book's ability to open.

Superb Bibliography

This site is for a course called The History and Future of the Book taught by Allison Muri at the University of Saskatchewan. The Further Reading link is superlative.

Medieval Book Technology?

raised digitally...

Illustration by Kevin Aelst

"An author's work can no longer exist in a vacuum, independent of hardy online extensions; indeed, a vascular system that pervades the Internet. Artists must now embrace the cultural theorists' beloved model of the rhizome and think of their work as a horizontal stem for numberless roots and shoots - as many entry and exit points as fans can devise." - Virginia Heffernan

-to pursue the fate of books in our digital age you might go here or possibly here

Human Participation

the link to the forms you'll need can be found here

covering the book

a review of current book cover design here

mediaworks pamphlets

...an interesting series of books published by MIT press, each with an online alter-ego.

-visit the site here

If you'd like...

If you'd like to see the previous Book Design blog visit here

-Belma Kapetanovic