So much to do and so little focus.

So I won’t be participating in the print exchanges. Either of them. One from rejection and one from choice. I guess it’s okay in the long run though.

I have my finals coming up so I gotta crack down on that. And once this semester is over, I’m taking the summer off. I’m not taking a summer class. I’m getting burnt out and I just don’t have the energy. I’m losing interest fast, but I don’t want to quit considering how far I’ve come. I’m just tired of it.

But I’ll be sharing my (rather elaborate) finals over the next couple of weeks…

Even paper hearts can be hurt…

Book Arts Assignment: Make something out of a book!

This is a copy of Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1. My foster dog chewed up the dust cover and a few pages inside a few months ago but I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away because A) it’s vampire hunter d. I adore the artwork. And 2) i hadn’t yet bought myself a replacement copy.

Inspired by the whole vamiric story, I decided to turn it into a sculpture. I used a very light brown stain, and then a buncha red inks. Pardon the kitchen floor!

I’m having a hard time coming up with a title and I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions!!

Vampire Hunter Jeep!

Innervision – Book Arts Midterm

When I was trying to think of titles, my dad mentioned InnerVisions album by Stevie Wonder… I liked the name so much that I kept it as Innervision… I don’t like how I inked the title on the cover. I think it looked better without the title on it at all, but I guess it needs to have one. I also wrote a little blurb I made up on the front page. I don’t really think I like it.

The pages are two 20×30 sheets folded into a 16 page single sheet fold, then cut and glued together for an accurate number of pages.

The images are artsy photos of my friends that I took last spring that I wanted to incorporate into a project. You can see some of them in the gallery. I printed them out on heavy weight vellum, and “framed” them in the pages. When you’re looking at the book in the light and you turn the page, you can see the photo from the other side of the page as well. It makes me think of stained glass.

I studded the curve and parts of the spine to add some texture.

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.