These are the final cover designs for my Typography class booklet. We were given a typeface at random and had to produce a type chart and a cover, I was really hoping for Futura but got Palatino instead. You can’t always get what you want, I suppose.
I still used both for the covers – one [...]
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Amelia’s Magazine is one of my favourite blogs to follow, I still keep all my old copies of the mag and go through them from time to time for inspiration. So I’m very very happy to have contributed to it with some illustrations for the catwalk show at Latitude Festival, reading her review here and here [...]
I’m in the curation team that took over the Red Container exhibition and events during the Summer Degree show at LCC. We took submissions from BA Book Arts & Design students and filled the container with over a hundred books, zines and prints.
Here’s Antonella reading Sans Soleil:
Zines and self-published little books by the window:
We had [...]
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Had a lot of fun making this box a few weeks ago for Jane Drinkwater’s class. It is indeed full of failed and successful models and experiments: concertina and accordion books, coptic and japanese stitching, origami and a mix of it all. I learnt a lot and will definitely use and modify some of the [...]
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Back in October I chose Golden Lane as the subject for the ‘City Surfaces’ brief. One of the finest public architectural spaces of 1950s Britain, this Council Estate is now home to 1,500 people in central London. I am fascinated by the primary colours and the idealism and hope of Post War community living (there is [...]
A project I worked on earlier this year, Sans Soleil is a 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). I had a lot of fun with this book!
‘Ah well… after all, history only tastes [...]
Black&White A3 collage I’m hoping to finally screen print on wednesday, 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.
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One of my favourite stalls in Handmade and Bound a few weeks ago was Cally Barker’s. The little crocheted Penguin classics caught my eye and I couldn’t resist the ‘Mystery and Crime’ one!
She told me about The Book Project in which she’d been involved, the work submitted is amazing . She might be contributing to an exhibition we [...]
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I only got this book a few days ago and it’s already found its way into my favourites! I’ve always thought Alphabet books were quite special as they are, in a way, the first book. Bruno Munari’s ABC is clever and witty, first published in 1960 its playful use of colours and textures is so [...]
