In my mind I passed a huge milestone yesterday; I made my first hardback book. By made I mean completely hand crafted with my own blood, sweat, tears and glue and by first I mean first eleven.
To say I’m relieved at getting them finished is a fair old understatement. Given that the final hand-in is this Tuesday and that I had no idea how to make the books I was worried I wouldn’t get them done in time, leaving me with nothing to wrap my final book jackets around for display at the Degree Show. Luckily, my lovely girlfriend showed me how it’s done despite being busy as hell preparing for her own Degree Show and it was wonderfully straight-forward.
I’m not gonny go into how it’s done, that’s not really why I’m writing this, it’s more to show my excitement at learning a new craft. Here’s a wee selection of images from my day.
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Today I finally posted off my entries to the Penguin Adult Prize and Puffin Children’s Prize and what a relief it was. I spent the majority of yesterday running around Garthdee getting things photocopied, printed and bound but it seems to have been worth it considering I’m still rather pleased with my final covers, as well as my submission boards.
I have even submitted a wee snippet from my Perfume cover to represent my work in the Gray’s School Of Art Degree Show Booklet.
I couldn’t find the right image from my Irvine Welsh project at the time so thought I’d go for a cropped photograph of my award entry, and I’m rather pleased with the results. It’s not giving too much away but, then again, that might not be a great thing.
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It might be a bit of a stretch calling this a “round”. It’s one cover.
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Tonight I bring you the second of three developments with the potential to become my final book jackets. These designs are much more simple and stripped back than the other two but I am quite fond of them.
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After months of studying and working out the little technicalities of my book covers, I’ve finally started doing the fun stuff… designing book covers.
I have three concepts for the project and this is the first. The idea is strong typography laid out over a photograph which in some way relates to the content of the book.
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