Books from an A2 sheet... and some catch-up

Having spent the past week dealing with a major case of man 'flu, I have fallen behind with posting progress. Above are examples of the flat art put together for the pages of books folded from one sheet of A2 paper. I will post pictures of the folds as they are made. This approach gives a great deal of scope for inclusion of image and/or text and I now have to consider how I will make covers for these. The images above show three examples based on either text or image produced to explore the format of the folded book.

Pagination (where story text is used) needs to be considered for continuity. The image shows how text blocks need to be rotated to remain in the correct orientation for the book.

The bold text in the second page has been aligned so that pages in the book are made up of individual cropped characters which should still remain readable in their own right within the pages of the book.

The grid marks for folds and cuts for the book were over-printed in pale blue/grey for assembly purposes and cannot be easily seen in these screen images.

The images in the top page have been put together randomly from some of my original collages. The intention being to occupy all page spaces with some continuity of image orientation and readability of the image on each page in its own right. ie each page in the book can become its own 'new' collage.

Prior to this I have investigated relief printing from perspex blocks cut on the laser cutter from raster image TIFF files based on collages from the Babel brief. Results from this were successful - and I will post results as soon as I have taken photos/scans. Although successful in outcome I felt that the perspex blocks were rather unforgiving in terms of exploring alternative pressure in the Albion press and am now investigating cutting a block from a rubberised material used for lino prints; in fact I have just cut these blocks on the laser and will print an a day or two to compare results from printing from different materials. I will include images of results for this work shortly.

In addition to the work listed above I am currently bringing to a conclusion a book reconstruction. Having folded pages and included pasted in images/text the bulk of the original sections are proving difficult to re-bind. I am at the stage where I will need to d-construct the original book further in order to facilitate a successful reconstruction!. Alongside this I have been assembling my original collages for the Babel brief into a reconstructed 'filofax'; firstly to group a record of this work together and secondly to utilise the original format/dimensions of the collages which were based on the original standard 'filofax' dimensions.