Book Making

In total I made six books – I followed bookmaking tutorials from the internet and experimented with a different for each one. The first book I made was from recycled materials – I sewed together 4 pieces of corrugated cardboard packaging which I covered with my prints, receipts and pieces of magazines. I also backed…

Lasercutting

For one of the pages in our books we made a popup/pop out in illustrator which was then cut out using the lasercutter. I did this by arranging a silhouette of a skull and a bag handle which I turned into silhouettes in Photoshop. I also merged text together into one shape and then removed…

Screen Printing

For each backover and front cover image that we had made into a bitmap we had to transfer them onto a screen with photosensitive emulsion and then print them 10 times each. The front cover was the most sraightforward as we had to print it just black and white and didn’t have to worry too…

Illustrator

In illustrator we explored making patterns from silhouettes by using the autotrace tool and then layering, rotation and resizing the images. I created a repeat pattern from hands and ribcages as this worked well due to the symmetry of the bodyparts. I looked at the work of Damien Hirst, Bohyun Yoon and Noble and Webster…

Monoprinting

The first type of printing we did was with our fingerprints on acetate in order to make a tonal representation of our chosen image. We also experimented with relief printing with the press and I also did some experiments with this at home by hand. I then worked into these relief prints that were made…

Backover Bitmaps

For our backcover we had to choose a coloured image which we would then separate into 4 colours. I made my ‘Harry Legge’ author by merging together separate body parts and then flattening the image. I also used black text for the writing as this colour would be easier to print. When making the colour…

Photoshop Front Cover

I collected images for my front cover from google and made handbags by merging/cutting/copying/pasting images of body parts, zips and handles together. I made each of the ‘bodybags’ in separate canvases and then once i had flattened them, I pasted them all into one canvas in order to arrange them before flattening the image. Once…

Compound Words

For this project we have been asked to create a book based on a compound word of our choice – i chose ‘bodybag’. I began by thinking of words associated with this in order to begin making collages. The literal definition of a body bag is obviously to transport bodies whereas separately it could be …