Artist book workshop

My tutors at University held an artist book workshop, which works out extremely well for me! Firstly they showed us a few different styles of books, different ways of binding, different methods of having a cover, ways pages could be viewed, etc. The map bellow caught my eye as I am trying to work out how I could have a large scale book but might need to work around having the book itself so large and have been playing with the idea of something that folds out. 

Another book that caught my eye where these Ken360 'mapzines'. They mainly caught my eye because of the content but it is clever the way they fold out and how the cover is attached. I have since done a bit more research into these, I will put this in the next post. 

This book above has a cover that slides off, this could be useful for the likes of the concertina book that I have been making. 

Our workshop was how to make a concertina book including how to attach hard covers and the right way to cover them in book-cloth. 

Finding the way the grain is going in the paper. 

Beginning to make my book using folds.

Covers covered in book cloth.

Finished book

I was pretty happy with my outcome. No glue where it shouldn't be and the pages and covers where pretty much aligned. This is my 3rd attempt at making a concertina with hard covers. I added pages of tracing paper to this using book binding thread so give it more detail and something extra to experiment with. I will use this as a sketchbook.