Book Without Paper

This is my book without paper. It’s steel plates that have had corners drilled through and fastened with a screw.
I stained them purple and wrote in silver marker the rearranged lyrics to The Birthday Massacre song Movie.

The only real problem with it is that I could have been more careful with the alignment of the text. I have poor handwriting and if I’d taken more care in making it straight and even, etc. it would have been so much better.

Designers Dossier Part 2

Okay so here are the revisions. I only made a couple of changes. I’m not sure if I like it. I guess we’ll see how my teacher grades it. I put more emphasis on words in the paragraphs, and broke them into smaller columns instead of big blocks. And I changed the halftone pattern in the background and made it smaller.

Five Random Words

Alright so here is the 5 random words project, again. The cover of the book sucks. I don’t like it. I’m not even going to show it. I’m just going to show the content.

Designers Dossier Part 1

So this past week was the first week of my latest school semester. I am taking another book arts class, as well as digital design 2, along with a couple of liberal art classes. This was my first assignment for my Digital Design 2 class. It’s a designer’s dossier.

The object was to “write approximately 250-300 words about yourself. Use an original self-portrait (photo or illustration) as the primary graphic. Create an engaging two-page spread design that will communicate what you most want us to understand about who you are and why you are pursuing a career in design.”

I was originally going to use the image of me from lovestruck because I thought the image fit me so well. But I decided against it to broaden my horizons.

This is the first part. Over the next week, we’ll all be editing our projects and trying to make them better through the critiques of our classmates and instructor.

Three little holiday books

Okay so for this round I decided that my books were going to contain common/traditional dutch recipes that are used around the holidays. Yes I know the holidays are over, but it’s still cold out and all three of these sound delicious to me right now. So there!!

The books are 8, 12, and 16 pages and their covers make them look like holiday gifts! The recipes are for Oliebollen, Bitterballen, and Apple Flappen! Look them up. They’re really good.