Book Arts Final Exhibit

The final major exhibition of our degree.

Interim exhibition

Last week at university we have had our first exhibition of the year on display.

"The Book in Context is an exhibition of bookworks created by the third year London College of Communication undergraduates on the BA (Hons) Book Arts & Design programme.

These bookworks are a demonstration of how our traditional preconceptions of the Book can be challenged through exploration and interrogation of the Book’s form.

As Book Arts & Design is an interdisciplinary subject, the student’s work on display incorporates fine art, graphic design and independent publishing, together with a drawing of inspiration from historical and contextual sources. Consequently, the bookworks are self-authored projects, a communicating and packaging of ideas tailored to the student’s chosen theme - a demonstration of books as verbal and narrative exploration, as documents, as a visual form and books as conceptual spaces.

As a result, The Book in Context exhibition challenges how we, the audience, are being encouraged to think about the way information is consumed, how reading patterns and styles are evolving and how the Book is responding to the digital age.

However, the Book as a printed artefact is still one to behold and this exhibition is recognition of the wonderful fluidity and possibilities within the Book; how it stretches our imagination and continues to adapt to our ever-changing world.

‘A book is a highly complex organisation of material and conceptual elements’ (Drucker, J. 2004. The Century of Artists’ Books)"

Text from the interim show blog.
All photos from my phone. 

Lesson notes

My notes look a bit all over the place, but I like them.

In progress

Here is some uni work that I am working on at the moment, its a story about two plastic ducks I found on the street one day.

Time away

Its a break from university at the moment, so I'm not doing much, except for working on a print making project and a new project. The brief for the new project is rather interesting...

Brief Description:

The aim of the third term’s project is to draw on your skills and ‘translate’ a previous book project/prototype into a limited edition of books

Final output: a limited edition of books (more than 3 books)

 

Ive decided that I will be using a nursery rhyme for the edition of books I will be making.

Uni

So I go back to university soon and I have my timetable. This is for anyone interested in what a book arts student does.

Monday
9:30 – 12:30 Applications in Book Design
1:30 – 4:30 Book Structure and design

Tuesday
9:30 – 11:30 Cultural and Historical Studies
1:30 – 4:30 Photographic & Digital Reproduction till Feb and then Printmaking

Wednesday
10:30 – 1:00 (Design Block) Letterpress
1:15 – 2:00 PPD
4:00 – 6:00 Illustration

Im quite looking forward to the illustration project, and doing letterpress instead of screenprinting.

Brief

My brief for the book structure lesson which I was given today.