Book timing decisions and final tweaks...

In the last 24 hours I have been thinking about exactly what I want to achieve with this project submission, keeping in mind the set criteria of the required materials we need to submit for this module. Having checked out what the delivery timing for the book is likely be (in this case blurb, who have come back saying 'that it will now be 2 weeks) This is due largely to the 'post Christmas clearing' they have to do. I have decided for the moment to not try to get the book printed as it will not be back in time for my deadline. I will instead come back to this later and have the book printed at a later date. It is 99% completed and just requires a few minor tweaks here and there, but in the main it is near ready.

I will now continue to finalise the presentation boards I will be submitting, plus the completed report with supporting reference materials for the submission deadline. In the meantime I have attached a few last screengrabs of the finished outer dust jacket design.

Final tweak to the outer dustjacket on the book...

More ref - Elod Beregszaszi a paper artist-engineer 2

More ref - Elod Beregszaszi a paper artist-engineer - Some examples

More ref - Elod Beregszaszi a paper artist-engineer

Item found via Facebook daily feed...

Artistaday.com: Elod Beregszaszi

www.artistaday.com

Beregszaszi is a paper artist-engineer based in London. His creative enterprise goes under the name of Popupology. His extensive portfolio includes commercial work and personal paper sculptures. Elod explains his work by saying "I am in love with paper, making it, cutting it, folding it, embossing.

Screen grabs Part 2 Dust jacket blurb book...

Paper Toys...

http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html

P1 Dust jacket designs for Blurb printed book...

More progress screen grabs from the book...

I'm now starting to get to the specific graphics look within the typography, and developing a series of graphics along this theme of time (represented by the 15) and developing the date 150696 and 150611 graphics.

Screen grabs Part 2 40 page PP Book

Latest development work on the 40 page book for my PP module project sub, the non 'Whistles and Bells version'. I have screen grabbed a selection of the pages showing the layout of the spreads and the continuity. This book is not a 'story tell' but more a visual collection of images and graphics, supplemented with quotes and personal thoughts of the time and the photography I have undertaken to establish the 'graphic identity' of the creative look I wish to develop into the more creative exploration areas later after this 1st submission in mid January.

These 2nd set of screen grabs shows close up some of the specific graphic styling and photostyling technique, I'm using on the images and graphics.

Screen grabs Part 1 40 page PP Book

Progress being made on the 40+page book for PP Sub...

After the slump in confidence early in the week, and the frustration with the suddenly lack of concentration and focus on my creative direction with this project, everything is now back on course. I have completed laying out the 40+ pages of the book (toying with the idea that this may have to be Part 1 & 2, because of the size of the material? but hey this is all part of the process. I have 2 options on covers. This book will be 12" x 12" square and possibly and outer box or case?

I will post some of the pages to show the creative development of the look, in the next few days.

Latest work not happy with progress...

I was hoping to post some of the latest development work for my Personal Project form the last few days, but to be honest I was having a look through this last night, and it's crap, no really, there's no focus, the typography is not resolved, and I feel that it's not up to the standard I would expect, and I would certainly not present this, especially to my group this afternoon. I set myself a high standard and expect the same of my students and my work.

Also it is very difficult time for me at the minute especially due to a family bereavement yesterday which has taken my focus away from my studies.

YEE-HAW-INDUSTRIAL-LETTERPRESS!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/YEE-HAW-INDUSTRIAL-LETTERPRESS/91874349415

Love the work of these guys, link courtesy of Cynthia Roth from her Typography I&II FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/typographypage

Latest notes for tasks to develop...

The latest roughs and Pop-up P2...

A few more of the rough sketches from my sketchbook, showing to further work on the pop-up direction, but I think now that this book/project is going to be as I have posted before, a 2 version deal. The 40 page print version for mid Jan submission, and the larger 'whistles and bells' pop-up version for the end of year show...

The latest on Pop up P1...

The 2 books on the left courtesy of Hannah Gibson, who i met up with last last Friday at Centenary, and she went through some basic pop up techniques and assembly. Really good session, and we will be working through some ideas together in the coming months. The Book on the left is a children's book from Dorling Kindersley, which originally came out in 1999, called the The POP-UP PULL-OUT Space Shuttle book. In 99 I bought this for my Nephew for his 9th birthday, can't believe it was that long ago. I found this on Amazon last week for 1p (yes it's true, the postage was £2.75) A few photo's below, taken quickly for the blog.

How the book will develop - 2 versions and Blurb online publishing...

After a few days away from my main project due to writing reports, I have been having a think about strategies for this module and beyond, and my thoughts have focused on 2 things. 1. What can I achieve for mid January, and 2. What can I achieve for the end of the course. So my project is going to develop in a couple of ways. For mid Jan I'm going to still design, layout and have printed through Blurb a book of my project. I have started putting the pages together. A couple of months ago I started putting together some of the graphics, and developing the look of the visuals. Today I finally got around to buying some papers for a series of experiments using conventional techniques. Regarding the final version, as Tash describes 'the whistles and bells version' this will have far more use of experimental techniques, pop-up, traditional screenprint, and a mix of inks, and papers.

The Blurb pages...