Book Production

Binding:

Binding the text block with a kettle stitch bind, initially was using the regular sewing needle, but it was taking a lot of time to pass it through the different signatures especially when I had to push it around the previous stitch loops. 

Started to use a curved needle instead, this sped up the process and made it much quicker to stitch the rest of the signatures together. 

Final outcome of the bind:

There could be some improvements as I hadn't had much experience with book binding but it is sturdy and strong despite having a few gaps between signatures.
- There are some larger gaps between signatures, think this is because of  the thick paper due to duplexing. When pulled thread harder to bring closer together the pages started to rip. 

Production:
Gluing the embossed cover to the grey board, tested using print stick as well as PVA to see the impact. A glue stick worked well but PVA left a much smoother finish on the board. When tested a second time the PVA warped the paper as there was too much glue.
Went back to original test and fixed up a few minor mistakes.

used a combination of spray mount and painting PVA onto the grey board to attach the end pages as smooth as possible.

Final pages:
End page is grey paper with a grey binding thread to continue the traditional theme and make the inside pages even more of a contrast.

The inside pages were bound with a red thread, continues the fun and playful aesthetic of the pages, as well as being a colour I initially associated very heavily with the Fringe.

Then I tested adding in the flyers in the book by just inserting them in, thinking back to the book seen at the antalis talk.

I don't think it benefit the book at all since they had a very different aesthetic to the content pages. It brought the professionalism of the book down a fair bit. The pages themselves communicated the sense busy, bombarding nature of the Fringe enough without these pages.