Cæsar Book, PRIN341

As promised (quite a while ago too), here's my final project for my print class. The idea I got was to customize an old book, so I bought an old book from the used book store and took it apart. I printed on the spreads with my desktop laser black&white printer, as well as my color inkjet for some of the spreads. Then I bound it back together (which took forever), and I made a slip cover for it. The spreads I chose contained some of the memorable moments of the piece.

I also included some separate spreads I created using some of my favorite quotes. Those were printed on the the pages of an old dictionary.

Crazy Book Sculptures

I've just stumbled upon a site exposing the work a Brian Dettmer. He creates book sculptures by "carving" into old books. It's really amazing and its along the lines of the idea I had for my last project in my print class, which was to give a new life to an old book. Anyway, here's the link:

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/

Final project + Extra

Alright alright, so it's done now. Dart331 that is, not school, cause I still have an essay to hand in next week. And I got 3 summer classes. And I work. But it's all good.

If I have anything to say about this class is that I learned alot. I learned alot from my mistakes, from my successes, and from myself. I learned what I like to do in the world of Design, and alot of it has to do with type. I really enjoyed the creation of my final project, bias magazine, and I'll try to create some more issue(s) over the summer. I really like making layouts and working with type, and I'd really love do more work toward that. What I did not enjoy, is making the physical product. I don't know, must be in my genes or something, but I'm just not good at making objects. Books, magazines, chairs, nutcrackers, you name it. There's always something wrong with it.

I didn't had time to take the pictures of my "Cæsar" project yet, so that'll have to wait. However, I've got the stop-motion animation I had to do for the final project of Tamzyn's class. I would also like to work more of these. But then, I would also like to continue working on my art history project... But bias is the dearest project for me, because it's more like the kind of thing I would like to work on when my degree is over.

Btw, I'll try to keep my blog going over the summer, posting some of my projects. The address might change, 'cause I bought a domain name for my portfolio, but I'll post a link when that happens.


Alright, so without further ado, here comes Mona Ligo (that's the cheesiest name I could think of):

PRIN351, Julius Caesar

I haven't had much time to update my blog because of all the projects that were due this week, but here's a part of my book project I did for my print class. I'm gonna post the images of the real thing tomorrow when I get my project back, but here's the sleeve cover I designed for the book The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar by Shakespeare: