LAURA : DESIGN
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Book sculpture number four: Trying a different technique.. instead of playing around with illustrations from within the book and creating new narratives, I’ve focused on the manipulation of just the paper itself, keeping it quite simple and including quilling methods. I really like the little glimpses of colour and sugary sweet clues to the recipes inside.
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Book sculpture number three: This 1940’s nurses guidebook is on a much smaller scale compared to the other books I’ve been working with which meant that this sculpture was a bit more of a challenge. The content of this book is amazing, but I was especially drawn to the repeating appearance of the man in the photos, mostly because of his expression, I think.
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Book sculpture number two: From a small book of children’s short stories, I cut out a selection of illustrations from the various stories and turned them into an entirely new scene within the book. It may appear to be an innocent sea-side scene at first, but on closer inspection is actually a surreal and slightly sinister portrait of the relationships within the food chain.
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Further progress on my book sculpture. I cut out any illustrations from the book that suited the theme of pond/water life and created a 3D scene next to the butterfly page, ultimately creating the look of a typically British garden. I really loved just working away at this for a few hours, carving out the ‘pond’ and seeing it take shape was especially enjoyable.
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Sculpting some second hand books in conjunction with my final major project
This was a welcome distraction today from my dissertation. Painted some lettering onto four A boards for a group project.
A few rough illustrations for a current project. It’s nice to be drawing more again.
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I finished making this book today, all ready for my deadline in 4 days. It’s based on the theme ‘testing’ and so I’ve been testing my dreams for several weeks, by doing various activities to see how they take affect on my dreams, I scribbled the results in a dream diary and then made the whole experiment into this very book! It’s full of hand drawn type, humorous illustrations, pastel colours, gatefolds, french folds, nice paper, and an insight into a weird but wonderful world that is brought to life in dreams. Took me forever to bind it (Japanese stab bind) through the layers of thick paper and making sure to miss the gatefolds, but heeeere it is:
