Wednesday, September 14th, 2011...7:53 pm
mini-book binding
classes are now back in full swing. projects have been assigned. thumbnails are being sketched. and in my graphic design three class, we learned how to bind books…miniature books to be exact. i am now the proud creator of four books that are smaller than four inches by four inches. the smallest one is 1×1! it’s so small and so cute! 🙂
you might be wondering what the point of this is. well, our first project in this class is to design a poetry book (it can be about any theme or poet that we choose) and in the end we have to assemble the book… that’s where the binding comes in.
in binding a few mini books during our class period, we were able to try out a few different types of simple book binds that we could use on our big books at the end of this project. i haven’t even decided for sure what the theme of my poetry book is yet (i am bringing two concepts to class tomorrow: e e cummings and poems by refugees) so i am far from deciding what binding i am going to be using. but i would love to start binding more books, including this new technique into other projects. it’s a great thing to do to break up the monotony of computer work.
yay! mini books!