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My book sculpture!
‘I Want The Title Of This Book To Be _’ is a book which showcases H55’s early works.
The concept of interaction in print, chance, accidental beauty, authorship, design ownership, and the ‘absoluteness’ of meaning, were personal ideas which have been prevalent in H55’s approach and we wanted them to be represented through the cover.
Our response was to use a sticker book jacket consisting of die-cut removable letters ‘I WANT THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK TO BE’, which allows the title and final cover design to be completed by the reader. Besides representing H55’s personal ideas, the book cover questions and redefines the relationship between author and reader, and facilitated the collection of many unlikely titles for our publication.
DIY Book Art & Paper Craft Projects (by Papersnitch)
Narrative Dress
-tells the story of my Mother and Fathers relationship.
-a comically dysfunctional but undeniably charming romance.
-potential for an embroidered Alice Book.
-Embroidery, Aplique, and Image transfer.
Size: 1.8 x 1.4 cm (0.70 x 0.55 inch). This book saddle-stitched hardcover book, covered in leather. All is done from scratch. Papers are tea-dyed (Earl Grey) , headband and bookmark are hand-weaved.
There’s 35 pages+endpapers, covered with 67 drawings of alchemy symbols, decorations and lettering, all done by hand. There are numerous “damages” made on book inside and out, burns, stains, rips, so it would resemble old, used book. Covers are gilded with pva/gold paint method.
A comic book I made for my Future of the Book paper. It references the kind of interactivity you’d find in a digital space. Also it’s about balloons.
Handbound Letterpress Miniature Book by typesticker
My second miniature book was a poem published in 1593 “Her Face, My Heart” printed letterpress in 6 pt Garamond 459 types. Dedicated to my wife, the type was imposed in such a way that the entire book was printed on one side of the sheet, which was turned and printed again making two books per sheet. It was bound in Japanese washi and foil stamped in gold. It measures 3/16” x 13/16”.