ARTISTS BOOKS

I used the internet to produce research into how I plan for my book to look. I gathered inspirational images of books that stood out to me for different reasons.

I want my book to have interest rather than just a simple book of drawings, I plan on using a variety of papers and media when producing my illustrations and possibly displaying them in a different way than your average 'left to right' book.

BOOK BINDING TECHNIQUES AND STYLES

What is book binding?

Bookbinding

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching a book cover to the resulting text-block. Before the computer age, the bookbinding trade involved two divisions. First, there is stationery or vellum binding which deals with making new books intended to be written into, such as accounting ledgers, business journals, and guest log books, along with other general office stationery such as note books, manifold books, portfolios, and etc. Second is letterpress binding which deals with making new books intended to be read from and includes fine binding, library binding, edition binding, and publisher's bindings.^[1] A result of the new bindings is a third division dealing with the repair, restoration, and conservation of old used bindings. With the digital age, personal computers have replaced the pen and paper based accounting that used to drive most of the work in stationery binding. Today, modern bookbinding is divided between hand binding by individual craftsmen versus mass-produced bindings by high speed machines in a bindery factory.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookbinding 4/12/14)

( All above images from Pinterest 4/12/14)

(http://www.sophieartemispitt.com/page12.htm 4/12/14)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScupM_ULi8w

This YouTube video is a great tutorial of simple book binding..I particularly like the perspex added.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgwX8Qtsl2w

This video has a more simplistic appearance at the end.

Although I want the book itself to be interesting enough to provoke questions of how its made, I don't want the book binding to distract the viewer from my illustrations.