This week's morning online workshop was about accordion bookbinding, a more unusual form of bookbinding.
It involves trimming down sheets of paper and folding it like an accordion. The sheets are then stuck together, and then to a hard cover. When opened, the folding creates a pop-out effect.
In another module last semester, we created illustrations to accompany a text, and this semester, we are turning those into a physical book.
This style of binding could be useful for creating books with impact images that you want to jump out at the reader. The continuity of the pages could also be helpful for creating long panoramic illustrations.
I'm not sure this really applies to my illustrations, however; additionally, I found the process of creating an accordion book frustratingly tricky, especially attempting to glue the pages to the cover.
The afternoon workshop was about creating zines, a handmade small-circulation 'magazine' of illustrations.
To make one, you fold a sheet of paper into eight sections, create a slit in the middle, and fold the paper into a star shape, then a booklet.
When adding images, it's important to make sure they are the correct way up when the zine is folded.
In this workshop, we created one about our last week using greyscale art materials, to print on the risograph machine when we're back in the studio.
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