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Amber Houbara
Feb 10, 20223 min read
CBD | P2 | Ex4: Designing a cover
Following on from the discussion of George Orwell’s novel 1984, look at the covers for Margaret Atwood’s equally dystopian novel The...
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Amber Houbara
Feb 2, 202211 min read
CBD | P2 | Ex 3: Book designers
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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Amber Houbara
Feb 1, 20221 min read
CBD | P2 | Research Task: Paper and Bookbinding
Please refer to this post >>> CBD | P4 | EX1: Paper/ephemera
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Amber Houbara
Jan 24, 20225 min read
CBD | P2 | EX2 - Paper and binding choices
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...
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Amber Houbara
Jan 24, 20223 min read
CBD | P2 | Research Point - Anatomy of Books
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...
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Amber Houbara
Jan 21, 20227 min read
CBD | P2 | Ex1- The function of books
Identify a range of books that have fundamentally different functions in terms of how these books are engaged with - how they’re held,...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 23, 202113 min read
CBD | P1 | As1 One: 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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Amber Houbara
Dec 22, 20214 min read
CBD | P1 | EX6+7 - Folding, mocking up, Visualising, editing and critiquing
There are two elements to this exercise - thinking about how you produce your publication, and making a smaller scaled down version as a...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 20, 20214 min read
CBD | P1 | EX5 - Research & development
Firstly, review your visual ideas based on from the previous exercise through a process of critical evaluation. Which ideas are you drawn...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 2, 20212 min read
CBD | P1 | Ex4 - Generating ideas
Use one or more of the following book related sayings as a starting point to generate visual ideas and responses: ● Bookworms ● A...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 2, 20212 min read
CBD | P1 | EX3 - Alternative publications
Using your research into artists’ books and fanzines as a starting point, think about their physical or design qualities, and creatively...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 28, 20212 min read
CBD | P1 | 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...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 22, 20214 min read
CBD | P1 | EX2 - The future of the book
Brief Given the current development of the book from printed to digital technologies, What do you see as the future of the book, for...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 9, 20217 min read
CBD | P1 | Ex1 | 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...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 27, 20212 min read
CBD - Getting started EX 4&5
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...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 27, 20213 min read
CBD - Getting Started Ex3 - Analysing and reflecting on books
This quick exercise is designed to introduce the idea of analysing and reflecting on the work of others, and to give you some material...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 26, 20212 min read
CBD - Getting Started EX 1&2
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...
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