It's time for the final assignment where I will be using all of my previous knowledge to produce a book design of my choice. I've been...

As the title of this exercise suggests, I was asked to reflect on everything I have experienced leading up to this point in creative book...

In this exercise I was encouraged to experiment by printing my own images on the the different paper types I had gathered before. I was...

This exercise asked me to think about the printing process and opens with a quote from Alan Pipes' On Press chapter, from his 2009...

The next exercise was to plan my workflow, to think ahead for each stage of production so that I could decide the scope of my project,...

Exercise 1 asks me to consider the roles at each stage of book production and how they will apply to me as I work towards Assignment 5....

Part 5 consists of a series of research and planning exercises that supports the final assignment where I will be designing and producing...

This final assignment was something that I had been looking forward to since I started this section and involved finding and...

Following on once more from the progress made in the previous exercise, I was asked to review, collate and rebind the images I have been...

This exercise continued on from the last one by again working with Tango With Cows as my inspiration, but this time to construct a...

This exercise asked me to look at concrete poetry, a literary and visual art form where poets have enhanced their words through the...

Similarly to my collection of paper samples that I did for a research task for Part 2, I was asked to gather more paper ephemera. Where...

Part 4 starts with a focus on altered books, which presents an interesting set of exercises and an assignment with lots of room for...

I've received my feedback for part 3 and after a troubled development process slowed me down during this section, I'm pleased that the...

After familiarising myself with using the Bridgeman and Oxford Art online image libraries outlined in research task 3, I moved on to work...

Research Task 2: Choosing A Typeface Before the following exercise, I read through the chapter 'on choosing a typeface’ in the book,...

Following on from my research task on the golden section and grids, in this exercise I wanted to put those grids into practice through...

For this area of research I looked into instances of the Golden section as it appears in nature, design and artwork, including where can...

Part 3 has a focus on typography and image as key areas of book design. Working with typography is something that I have not heavily...

I've received my feedback from Part 2 of Creative Book Design, and it's been some of the most rewarding reassurance that I'm on the right...