School Projects: Book Arts

Book Arts has been one of my favorite classes at college. I took it Winter 09 semester.

We learned how to make many different types of books and boxes. From figuring out measurements cutting/tearing/folding paper, sewing together pages, covering book board, choosing book cloth, making and buying paper, it was quite the experience.

They are a lot better to see and examine in person, but I thought it would be fun to post some picture of them. If you ever want to really see them let me know.

We made a variety of different kinds of books and a box to hold them all.

CLOSE UP OF SOME FAVORITES

Cord Bound Book

It has two different kinds of leather and I added a book mark.

I really like the end papers too.

It was my favorite book.

Long Stitch Book

I added beads to this one, small ones for decoration and a big one for the clasp. I looked around for leather and ended buying a pack of scraps. Then I discovered they were all too small. So I had to be creative and sew different pieces together. But in the end I really liked how it turned out!
Front
back

The Collaborative Pop-Up Book

As a class we made a pop up book. We decided our theme would be "Unique Animals." We slit into pairs. Each pair came up with an animal and created 19 of their page, one for each student. Then we took the pages and bound them for our Pop-Up book. It was a lot of fun.


The page my partner and I made. We decided to set our type on a small press. It was neat to set the individual letters, roll and apply the ink. Yet, it made me appreciate computers! Also, we got to see a printing press replica of the one the Book of Mormon was first printed with. They recently have gotten one at BYU-Idaho.








Japanese Stitch


This was a fun simple book. Also the cover paper is paper than I marbled.






MARBLED PAPER

Some of the paper I marbled

One day in class we got to marble paper. (The inside of a hymn book is marbled paper). It is an interesting process. You have a tray with with liquid. Then there are a variety of ink colors. You select the colors you want and apply then onto the liquid by drops or splattering it. Then you can create designs by swirling the inks. You then place your paper over it and pull it off. The ink sticks to the paper and then dries. It was really fun!







BOXES

Along with our books we were required to make two boxes.
This was a box i made for my scriptures. Though it turned out kind of big and bulky. But it's pretty and I like it anyway.
I added an indentation of the Rexburg Temple in the corner.

The inside. I used beautiful paisley paper. I made a pocket on the lid so I can put things in it. I like the ribbon that ties it shut too.A smaller box I made. These types of boxes are called clam shell.

CONTENT BOOK

For the final project we had to make a content book. After brainstorming a few different ideas i decided to make a book of the different cakes my sister and I have made. I used Adobe Illustrator and put it together. It was A LOT of work and made for a stressful end of the semester, but in the end it was worth it.

The cover. I cut a cake shape out of the book board. I then put three different colors of paper in the book. I ripped them so that they would overlapped for the different layers on the cake. It was fun...but difficult.

Title page. I had fun designing this and loved how it turned out.

A little back ground information i included.

I divided it into three different sections. Birthdays, Holidays and Special Occasions. There are a lot of pages I just included one from each section.