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Amber Houbara
Jul 9, 20226 min read
CBD | P4 | AS 4: Altered book
Using a found book, significantly alter the appearance of the pages to create a new volume that is personal to you. This can be any kind...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 8, 20227 min read
CBD | P4 | Ex 4: Collating and binding
Reflect, evaluate and rework Having printed your images from the previous exercise, take the opportunity to view all of the pages,...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 24, 20228 min read
CBD | P4 | EX 3: Sequencing images
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...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 24, 20225 min read
CBD | P4 | EX2: Concrete Poetry
Critical writing task Identify an example of concrete poetry and write a short critique of the content, design and the relationship...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 7, 20223 min read
CBD | P4 | EX1: Paper/ephemera
To begin: Collect a wide variety of paper samples and other paper ephemera across a range of weights, textures and surface finishes. This...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 6, 20222 min read
CBD | P4 | Research 1: Exploring artists’ books
Find two artists’ books that you feel demonstrate an interesting relationship between their form and content through the materials that...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 14, 20227 min read
CBD | P3 | As3: My Little Book of...
The brief Create two books explaining and exploring the typographic and layout principles you have researched in this section. Book 1: My...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 12, 20225 min read
CBD | P3 | Ex3: Experimental typography
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...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 7, 20223 min read
CBD | P3 | Ex2: Double-page spread
This two part exercise aims to understand the relationship between typography, the grid, and the page in more depth by analysing existing...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 7, 20223 min read
CBD | P3 | Ex1: Type samples
Find as many examples of type as you can from a range of sources, including newspapers, magazines, flyers, leaflets, online, and printed...
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Amber Houbara
Feb 13, 20221 min read
CBD | P2 | AS2: Form and function Part II
The Final Designs Deluxe Edition Pocket Edition Survival Guide Interiors Mockups Pocket Version I took a vector of books from smart...
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Amber Houbara
Feb 13, 20228 min read
CBD | P2 | AS2: Form and function Part I
Brief Design the book format and cover artwork for two different versions of Daniel Defoe’s classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The...
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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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