It's a Book Jim... But not as we Know it

A busy and useful day today.
After a presentation with Yvonne and Cheryl in the morning which was also attended by the college's furniture course, aimed at further explaining just what forms Artist Book's can take including looking at a vast variety of publications as documented below. I found this useful as many of the zine's displayed were by student's from last year's course, student's who are year earlier were faced with the same brief as ourselves and it was interesting to note the utcomes their work had reached.









After our briefing on the Book Fair, we furthered our research with a visit to the Art Market Leeds. Housed in a modest unit within the Merrion Market, the market has truly made the most of itself, using it's initiative to create a schedule of arty events that included an artists indoor picnic that was just concluding as we arrived.
After having a good scout around for publications of interest, I had a chat with the lady behind the counter about my project and helpfully agreed to post a link to my project's blog in the next newsletter.








Now onwards to Vernon Street where we were lucky enough to have the opportunity to meet with the college's keeper of the books and librarian in chief - Chris, to scour through the libraries extensive collection of Artist Books.
Ranging from publications purchased from alumini of the college all the way up to the colleges newest acquisition of the complete published works of land artist Richard Long.
This was a great chance to further expand the scope of my knowledge in regards to Artist Book's and instilled the feeling that anything is possible within this broad medium.



One of my favourites, 'Shuffle" by Christian Marclay is a enlarged pack of cards, but in place of suits, the set features a simple score on each card, the idea being that the cards are to be shuffled up and if musically inclined played in the order they are placed.







This was another ingenious example featuring an authentic chunk of the demolished Berlin Wall.







This book shows the theme of an artist book could be extremely simple, showing various typographic ways to display the title letters.





And our final stop of the day was to be introduced to Mick and Sarah at the print workshop, who are to give us a workshop on creating our own books in the next week or so. Showing us a wealth of construction methods and previous examples aimed at getting us to think of the type of book we'd like to create in the workshop. This was something to think about, i plan on taking examples along with me to explain the aesthetic i want to achieve.





A selection of Buckram swatches, oh the choices!