However you plan to work in the production of your book, spend some time now planning your workflow, using the notes above as a guide....

Working with the outlined publishing models, identify the various roles you (and potentially others) will be undertaking for assignment...

Reflect, evaluate and rework Having printed your images from the previous exercise, take the opportunity to view all of the pages,...

In this exercise you’re going to create images which you’ll then print onto the papers you collected in the first exercise. You have been...

Critical writing task Identify an example of concrete poetry and write a short critique of the content, design and the relationship...

To begin: Collect a wide variety of paper samples and other paper ephemera across a range of weights, textures and surface finishes. This...

Below is an extract from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Using a single typeface of your choice, lay out the text in as...

This two part exercise aims to understand the relationship between typography, the grid, and the page in more depth by analysing existing...

Find as many examples of type as you can from a range of sources, including newspapers, magazines, flyers, leaflets, online, and printed...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...