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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
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 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
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 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 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 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
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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