Following on from the discussion of George Orwell’s novel 1984, look at the covers for Margaret Atwood’s equally dystopian novel The...

This exercise hopes to broaden your understanding of other book designers’ work by looking at their cover designs. Start to identify the...

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Brief The kind of stock you choose will be informed by the nature of the job you’re doing. If you were working commercially, then...

To get familiar with the anatomy of books I have researched some guides online here are my research links and the notes I've taken. I...

Identify a range of books that have fundamentally different functions in terms of how these books are engaged with - how they’re held,...

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

There are two elements to this exercise - thinking about how you produce your publication, and making a smaller scaled down version as a...

Firstly, review your visual ideas based on from the previous exercise through a process of critical evaluation. Which ideas are you drawn...

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

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

Browse the American based Smithsonian Libraries’ Artist Book archive to identify books that you find interesting or questions the notion...

Brief Given the current development of the book from printed to digital technologies, What do you see as the future of the book, for...

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

Exercise 4:​ Managing your time I know it will be hard for me to manage my time as I don't have a very set routine or week schedule. I...

This quick exercise is designed to introduce the idea of analysing and reflecting on the work of others, and to give you some material...

EX1 - What do I want/need from this course? What I want/ might need from this course unit - I would like to refine my skills I would like...