Lets make books...

On Friday I went to a tutorial with the lovely Lucy May Schofield and I had a very productive day in terms of defining the style of print document I want to create for silence part 2. I have attended book/print workshops in the past so knew the basics of folding and making simple books but it was good to get a reminder of the 'rules.' Lucy showed us some beautifully made books from her collection of designers and ex students work and a lot of them were quite simple book designs but it was the way they were executed that really made them. As Lucy said 'paper has a personality' and this is true because the choice of stock I have for my final piece will really contribute towards its success.

After discussing my idea for silence everyone agreed that the photos should be displayed on their own as we talked about in my review, and they should be left to speak for themselves. I have been experimenting with displaying a photo with a piece of text underneath but we felt it would be nice to just show the photo and let people devise their own narrative as to what the photo is about. We discussed a few different book styles that I am going to experiment with looking at a concertina, a simple pamphlet and then a fold out a2 document to create a sort of collage of my text and images from the house so I have started experimenting with these over the weekend.

Take a look at Lucy's website: www.lucymayschofield.co.uk