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ASSIGNMENT 1: Your Zine
Your first assignment asks you to create a small publication or fanzine based on your interest in books and their design. It allows you...

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Sep 2711 min read


Exercise 7: Visualising, editing and critiquing
Based on your work from the previous exercises, think about how your designs within the context of the book. For example, visually...

Christine Griever
Sep 277 min read


Exercise 6: Folding and mocking up your book
There are two elements to this exercise - thinking about how you produce your publication, and making a smaller scaled down version as a...

Christine Griever
Sep 271 min read


Exercise 5: Research and development
Firstly, review your visual ideas based on from the previous exercise through a process of critical evaluation. Which ideas are you drawn...

Christine Griever
Sep 276 min read


Exercise 4: Generating ideas
Use one or more of the following book related sayings as a starting point to generate visual ideas and responses: ● Bookworms ● A...

Christine Griever
Sep 273 min read


Exercise 3: Alternative publications
Using your research into artists’ books and fanzines as a starting point, think about their physical or design qualities, and creatively...

Christine Griever
Sep 275 min read


Exercise 2 Research task: Artists’ books and fanzines
Browse the American based Smithsonian Libraries’ Artist Book archive to identify books that you find interesting or questions the notion...

Christine Griever
Sep 276 min read


Exercise 2: The future of the book
Given the current development of the book from printed to digital technologies, what do you see as the future of the book, for readers,...

Christine Griever
Sep 276 min read


Exercise 1: Influential books
Consider the importance of books to you both personally and within a broader global sense. First of all, think back to the earliest books...

Christine Griever
Sep 2711 min read
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