valeriepica.com » bookbinding http://valeriepica.com/blog illustration, printmaking, etc. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:16:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bookbinding preview http://valeriepica.com/blog/projects/bookbinding-preview/ http://valeriepica.com/blog/projects/bookbinding-preview/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:42:19 +0000 valeriepica http://valeriepica.com/blog/projects/bookbinding-preview/

Just though I’d show a sneak review of some books I’ve been working on. These are for the University of Southampton’s art and craft show, which will be held on Sunday, 28th November. Come and see me!
I’ve also got some sets of badges which I’ll be showing you very soon- I had lots of fun designing and making the packaging, so I hope you’ll like them!

I love this ‘red riding hood’ fabric! I bought it from cottonblue’s shop on Etsy and couldn’t bear to part with it for a long long time. Luckily, I summoned up my courage and transformed it into two sweet little pamphlet-bound sketchbooks. I’ll show the complete books soon!

Just so you know, once I’ve recovered from the show in November (my very first craft show!), I’ll be listing the remaining books on Etsy, so even if you can’t make it to Southampton, you can still buy from me.

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Continuing in the bookbinding theme, today’s images are some details I took of an impeccably bound book by Juliao Sarmento. I was struggling with this binding style- I pretty much disregarded the tips about using Japanese paper in Kojiro Ikegami’s book, which meant the book I’d been attempting were stiff and crunchy. The japanese papers, which have a high rag content, are incredibly thin yet strong, which means in a bookbinding style like this it’s possible to actually open the book fully without damaging it.

Regardless, this book is an artwork, a documentary, and an example in a medium.

four hole stab binding.

Juliao Sarmento

Juliao Sarmento: Racial Makeup.

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Well, the first post ought to be fairly momentous, and happily on the 16th of October we had one of the most useful lessons in the three years of an Illustration degree. We were given a day workshop with Richard Roberts, a London-based printmaker, illustrator, and graphic designer. We were shown the ins, outs and intricacies of binding a hard-back book, and by the end of the day thanks to the teaching standard we all had serviceable and attractive sketchbooks.
book spines
It’s great learning a new skill, especially one we can use in project work, and it’s clear that Richard enjoys what he does, making for a fantastic person to learn from! Richard Roberts is involved with the East London printmakers, a collective that offers various workshops, and also runs his own blog.

http://robertsprint.tumblr.com

http://www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk

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