One Week Book

ONE WEEK BOOK

A group project making a hot dog book according to our given subject

HOT DOG BOOK

>a quick and easy way of making a 6 page book

I had made these before on my foundation course, so this technique wasn't new or complicated to me. I was quite excited to use these books again because they're so good for quickly making a standard little book. 

CITY LIBRARY 

Our subject that we were given for our book was the city library, which naively I first thought was quite boring.. a book about books? However when we got there we were in awe of the decoration and architecture of the building and quickly changed my mind on our theme being less exciting than the others and became more passionate about the subject.

                  

        

                                                 

 

In the library/art gallery cafe

Main inspiration for our story came from the teapot that we had at our lunch break in the library/gallery cafe. We looked into the teapot and was grossed out by the contents of left over

chamomile tea and we thought that as it was a part of our day that we should put it in the story. 

But of course we had to make it clear to the audience that our theme was the library, so we decided to have a library in the teapot. 

Swamp in a teapot 

Swamp in a teapot

                                     

IDEA DEVELOPMENTS - ROUGHS 

Drawings from the library 

                                                       

first mind map for the story 

Page design - roughs

>My role was to do the first page - the man falling into the teapot.

I focused on composition - how can you create a simple image using as little shapes as possible?
The answer? BIRDS EYE VIEW

Design experiment - to see if the two would work together and if the materials would work 

Roughs for first page

Back cover roughs - composition and material experiment

Mixing the colours

exposed screen

Finished screen print

I was very excited to screen print, as I have done it before for my final piece for my foundation agree and enjoy the process. Although I had never actually exposed a screen before so was curious to see how the procedure worked and how different it is to using a paper stencil as I had done before. I was very surprised to see how quick and easy it is to expose a screen, which makes me eager to want to make more of my own screens that I could work from in later projects.

During the printing process, we worked well as a team to turn out as many prints as we could, making roughly around 3/4 prints each and after a bit of practice they became quite successful. At first I wasn't too sure whether the colours would work well together, but when we actually put them together on the paper I think that they contrast nicely as complimentary colours and is a colour combination that no one else put together. 

I am very interested in doing screen printing again in my future projects after this project, as I love how easily you can turn a drawing into a bold print design and turn it into something like a book or a poster. I definitely will be looking into this process to see how I can expand my ideas and materials.