The Poundshop Oscar Wilde Books
A collection of pocket books specially priced at £1 for The Poundshop at London Design Week 2011. Selected by Michelle Alger, Buying Manager at Liberty as one of her favourite Poundshop Products and included in the Liberty Picks. The books
Surf Mama
Hardback art book memoir I worked on during my internship at Beautiful Books. The dust jacket has blue surfboards that divide the sections and make up the spine. The cover was Wilma’s painting and her own lettering so I felt
The Piracy Project
The Piracy Project is an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. This project is not about stealing or forgery, it is about creating a platform to innovatively explore the
Beautiful Books Catalogue
Catalogue for Beautiful Books, produced during my internship. 42 page A5 booklet. This is the cover spread, cover and back cover: You can download a pdf version HERE.
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Every book cover is a visual analysis of the narrative, an invitation to read but should never reveal too much. I read The Metamorphosis as a metaphor and for me the room and the door were only a prison in
How to WOW a woman
Risographed zine takes the typography of advertising slogans from the 40s and 50s and puts them out of context. The binding allows for the pages to be taken apart and re-arranged to create a vintage pattern for an apron, should
The London Design Festival
Design an A4 poster in one hour or less for London Design Destival Typo Challenge. Over 100 entries were submitted and I’m very happy that my design was included in the selection on LDF’s flickr set.
Norwegian Wood
Entry for the Don’t Panic Norwegian Wood film competition: 3rd position from the 400 submissions and was exhibitied at the Curzon Cinemas in Soho (London) in March 2011. Drawing inspiration from japanese posters from the mid to late 1960s I
Tattoo
Solar plate prints to illustrate ‘Tattoo‘ loosely based on the 1941 traditional spanish song made famous by the one and only Concha Piquer. It tells the story of a girl that falls in love with a sailor with a tattoo
Sans Soleil
64 page book inspired by the Japanese aesthetics of Wabi Sabi and the imperfect, impermanent, and incompleteness of Beauty. Borrowing the words from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983). This comes from one of my favourite scenesin the film.
Vacancies Book
A collection of B&B signs taken in Blackpool off season. Vacancies Book from Mina Bach on Vimeo.
Lino cut
Hand printed lino cut exploring different mark making techniques
Me, Myself & I
Hand printed solar plate using exploring the chine collé technique (tissue paper chinese collage) :
I am Bravest in the face of fear
Black&White A3 photocopy collage, the letters are all cut into the paper and it reads ‘I am bravest in the face of fear’. An actual fact as my courage seems to come at times when it’s less needed. 3 Ink
