Design Principles OUGD404 Studio Brief 02 Study Task 04 - Bookbinding

Study Task- Bookbinding

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Task

Attend the Bookbinding workshop at the Rossington Street printroom. Produce three different methods of bookbinding, photograph the resolutions within the Photography Lighting Workshop and compose a blog post, reflecting on the processes and appropriateness of methods to your own practice,

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Mandatory Requirements

Blog Post - demonstrating awareness of a range of approaches within bookbinding. Particular attention should be paid to how this knowledge and understanding could inform your future approach to the design and production of Studio Brief 02.

Deliverables

Blog post 3x bound final resolutions Photography of binding methods. For this study task we attended a workshop that would help us by teaching us a few homemade and simple bookbinding techniques that we could then take on to our final design principles project. In this workshop we would learn how to create three different types of binds the first is a Japanese stab bind, the second is a saddle stitch bind and the third is a concertina style book with a glued hard back cover, this workshop will be very helpful as for my initial thought on my design principles book I want to create a book of which has a easily homemade style making these binds perfect for me, especially the saddle stitch. Below are picture of the books in the creation stage and further pictures of the finalised creations... As I had already guessed before the session the method that I would take forward to my final project would be the saddle stitch method as it is in fitting with the simple and cheap method that I was looking for to give over the wanted homemade aesthetic of my book. The concertina and hardback method and the Japanese stab binding method would both also fit in with my homemade aesthetic but they both would have disadvantages if I chose them namely the fact that the glue used in the first method makes the creation process messy and the fact that the second method sue to the stab binding method it make the book harder to open reducing the space of the page that can be printed on and making the book open less.