Category Archives: Assignments

Your final assignment asks you to draw on all the skills, insights and experience you have gained so far, by designing and producing a book fo your choice. Use the following options to as a starting point or alternatively identify your own project. Influential Book Designers: Identify one or more book designers to present throughContinue reading “Assignment 5: Your Choice”

Brief: Using a found book, significantly alter the appearance of the pages to create a new volume that is personal to you. This can be any kind of book that is of interest to you, for example, a fiction book, a non-fiction book, a picture book or a photo book. Approach the found book inContinue reading “Assignment 4: Altered Book”

Brief: Create two books explaining and exploring the typographic and layout principles you have researched in this section. Book 1: My Little Book of… Good Typography Using reference material that you’ve gathered throughout the exercises and research tasks in Part 3, design a book which explores traditional ‘good practice’ in typography. What is readability and,Continue reading “Assignment 3: My Little Book of…”

Brief: Design the book format and cover artwork for two different versions of Daniel Defoe’s classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The publishers, Viking Press, have decided to re-release this title as a new pocket edition for readers on the move that reflects the adventurous nature of the story within a contemporary setting. This paperback versionContinue reading “Assignment 2: Form and Function”

Brief: Your first assignment asks you to create a small publication or fanzine based on your interest in books and their design. It allows you to introduce yourself, and your interests in book design, so that your tutor can get to know you and your work better. Your fanzine can be digitally printed or handmade.Continue reading “Assignment 1: Your Zine”