Reflection

Just doing a little reflection on my exercise-binding book 2.

I really love the freedom we are giving to do almost anything; well from today’s presentations, anything was only what we did. Mmm cookie book yum yum. Thumbs up for that idea, food wins everyone over, although would have gone nice if I had some tea.

I loved doing my book. Was too much fun almost and that is hard at times in Design, as we have to pull back I find often rather then go crazy with our ideas.

My idea came to me cause I love geography. I love how old globes used to look and that was my idea at first when creating the book. I wanted this old stylebook with a modern twist, and that being the 3D world in the book. -Why bother to use pages, right?- So as I made my book, I found that it would be a nice tease to have the book appear old looking but make it clean cut, almost modern looking. To have this juxtaposition between modern and old was something that excited me. That is why I used gloss paper, to give a more modern look, as I found mat paper make the images after printing appear old or dull. So yea, the gloss paper, bad mistake I found out as I began printing on a Jet Ink printer. Grr. Stupid paper could not hold the black ink and would run, making it messy and seemed to degrade the look of my book. =( Really piss me off after having so much passion go into my book. Although I do hope everyone enjoyed it, I truly loved the idea and aimed to make sure no one would see something like what I did coming.

WOW my brain is dead today, I’m getting lost in my own thoughts.

Another area I need to work on is being able to connect hardcover pages, with the spine. I made a several signature binding as an exercise, just to show I can do it as we learned it in class. Looking forward to next class and learning how to add a hardcover to signatures. ^_^

Bookbinding away

So I’m taking a break from the main project and working on exercise two. Doing a normal binding right now for process work that Reg showed us in class, the one with multiple signatures. Holy crap, I only have 5 signatures and it took a good amount of time to finish binding it. I have those “tapes” that somehow connect to the cover of the book. Not so sure how that works. Other then that, the experimental book is behind, was suppose to have it done today but work is killing me and taking much of my time. Plus the cold today is crazy! Didn’t even get to go to the gym =(

Ok, back to binding and research on Dubai. W00T! Oh, also e-mailed a friend in the design program, Seven Mayers. He went this past summer to Africa to visited a desert or something and took many pictures that I absolutely love. I asked him if I credited him in my book that I could use the images and it seems to be a go. We will be meeting on Monday, March 3rd to talk about the images.

It begins

Blah!!! This site has been repelling me to start on it for several weeks, but now is the time to force myself. So I’m not as far as I had planned to be at this point in the year on my book. As luck would have it that I become real sick over York’s reading week and didn’t do anything related to school. W00t. However, I have more a final idea on my book and how it will work.

PS and so on a side note, blogger is so hard to use. Id rather make a XHTML website, I ended up posting on the wrong page and had to get Samantha to help me. I heart her, all credit goes to her on getting this blog up. yay