Looking at mock-ups of the book it became clear that the pages needed to be double sided with text, when attempting to do this through the printer was really difficult, especially since the paper in the printer could only print so big.
Thinking of ways to solve this so had the pages be dueplexed allowed for more intricate details on the pages without having to worry about configuration. Instead I used a light box to align the text or images on the page behind. - Really effective.
Thinking of the book and how to bind.
Was telling Zoe about the book and how I wanted it to be read and the pages fully interacted with each other in the book, it meant the audience was sucked into it as well as presenting this idea of chaos.
Wanting the book to be pamphlet bound as it allows the reader to really get into the book. The perfect bound book was really restricting and you couldn't fully see all the pages, they were all separate and didn't interact with each other in the way I wanted them to.
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| tests with dueplexed paper and interactive layout |
EXPERIMENTS WITH BIND:
Spoke to Susie in bookbinding about how to approach binding the book.
The pages couldn't be pamphlet bound the traditional way as they had multiple spines, this was really important to the way the book is read and the pages interact with each other.
- Perfect binding was out the window, even though it is an easier bind it would change the reader's experience of the book as well as making it difficult to configure the pages.
Susie suggested to individually pamphlet stitch each "signature" then perfect bind these together, as this might still allow the book to lay flat.
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| Mock-up for bind |
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| Mock-up with pamphlet bound "signatures" |
Once this was perfect bound the glue ate up the stitches, there wasn't much point of them being there as it had the same effect of being purely perfect bound which was quite disappointing.
Thinking of other ways to bind the book incorporating the "signatures" so the effect and reading experience isn't altered.
- TRY KETTLE AND COPTIC STITCH BIND
LOOKING FOR PAPER STOCK:
I want to have paper stock from various places to continuous the theme of having the many combined into one.
Went to scrap to look for paper. Scrap is a creative reuse warehouse, they get given materials from large companies that would have otherwise gone to landfill. It ranges from paper perspex to fabric to jewellery. They have lots of odd bits like new year cards from 2015 and Buddha posters etc.
I found a variety of different paper stock however non were really what I was looking for. I found a ribbed yellow paper, and a very thin ribbed white paper. The white paper was quite interesting as it looked just like plain paper until you felt it and then it was different. I quite liked this as a concept to have in the book.
Thinking about the colour scheme for the book.
One of the big issues within the mock-ups was that they very much look as though they've been made from scrap pieces of paper. Need to develop a colour palette for the book to avoid this from happening. This along with the duplexing of the pages will be really effective.
Went to the library and found these colours that worked well with the paper in the image above, as well as a couple of accent colours.
The paper stock needed to show a bright and cold colour palette, as you get bombarded with different imagery when at the fringe there was a little bit of scope for the colours not all working together as this would add to the effect.
Went to scrap to look for paper. Scrap is a creative reuse warehouse, they get given materials from large companies that would have otherwise gone to landfill. It ranges from paper perspex to fabric to jewellery. They have lots of odd bits like new year cards from 2015 and Buddha posters etc.
I found a variety of different paper stock however non were really what I was looking for. I found a ribbed yellow paper, and a very thin ribbed white paper. The white paper was quite interesting as it looked just like plain paper until you felt it and then it was different. I quite liked this as a concept to have in the book.
Thinking about the colour scheme for the book.
One of the big issues within the mock-ups was that they very much look as though they've been made from scrap pieces of paper. Need to develop a colour palette for the book to avoid this from happening. This along with the duplexing of the pages will be really effective.
Went to the library and found these colours that worked well with the paper in the image above, as well as a couple of accent colours.
Developing and testing different colour schemes with the paper and thinking about what they might be most useful for:
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| The most successful combination for the bulk of the pages is on the right, the ones on the left show potentil accent pages as well as a potential paper stock for the cover. |
The paper stock needed to show a bright and cold colour palette, as you get bombarded with different imagery when at the fringe there was a little bit of scope for the colours not all working together as this would add to the effect.
The paperstock that'll be used in the book comes from Cass Art, Scrap, the uni library as well as some found paper stock from the studio. I really like having this collection of papers be the bulk of the book as it feels a lot similar to how the fringe is comprised of acts from all over the globe.
To Do Next:
- Test kettle stitch bind
- Develop front cover further
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