A Feast for the eyes

Project by Victionary Studio in Hong Kong, not motion graphics but I needed to blog some print to keep the creative juices flowing. Instantly fell in love with this beautiful publication including interesting packaging design, and restaurant identities. Love the visual relation to the content and context of the book from the textured cover design to the die-cut bite marks out of each page. Also consistently clean and interesting layout designs that fit exquisitely with the off white stock.

Flags De-constructed

Design by - SDL
Flags de constructed, originally posted because there was a short motion graphic of all the different components of the flags flashing up on the screen but I can't embed it onto my blog. Simply outstanding project, using all the basic simple elements that make up the world flags completely stripped down and deconstructed and re-arranged in a beautiful set of simple geometric shapes.

Also really interesting to see how they have branded the exhibition and the different print methods / scales that have been used. I particularly like the book covers with the embossed and foiled print giving the shapes a bold contrast to the grey fabric covering the book.

Binding example

Publishing
Design by Kummer & Herrman

Lovely example of creative binding here, a saddle stitch down the spine and green foil block letting on the front. A few processes that I want to explore within my vinyl project - Trying to achieve the texture of a vinyl through print?

KAWS

Publishing & Editorial 
Kaws - A book about the artists work and how he has diverged into the different creative sectors.
This is the most amazing book I own, with a range of different coated and uncoated stocks through out as well as smaller sections showing the different chapters of the artists / designers life. The cover has an embossed vinyl image and an outer vinyl cover with bold white text across the top.

Binding

Binding is where a various pages that compromise a job are bound together to become a publication.

Text taken from - 'The production manual' - Page 167

Comb Binding - Spine of plastic rings that bind and allow a document to sit flat

Spiral Binding - Spiral of metal wire that winds through punched holes allowing the publication to open flat (left)







Wiro Binding - Spine of metal (wiro) rings that bind and allow a document to open flat

Open Bind - Book bound without a cover to leave an exposed spine

Singer Stitch - Binding method whereby the pages are sewn together with one continued spine

Perfect Bound - The back sections are removed and held together with a flexible adhesive, which also attaches a paper cover to the spine, and the fore edge trimmed flat. Commonly used with paper backs.

Saddle Stitch - Signatures are nested and bound with wire stitches, applied through the spine along the centre fold.

Clips and Bolts - A fastening device that uses holes and bolts to fasten together loose pages. Holes are often drilled for the bolt or clip to pass through.

Belly Band - A printout that wraps around a publication, often used with magazines or flyers, a quick and cheap option of holding work together.






Elastic Bands - An informal binding method whereby an elastic band holds the pages together and nestles in the centrefold.

Case or Edition Binding - A common hard cover book binding method that screws signatures together, flattens the spine, applied end sheets and head tail-bands to the spine. Hard covers are attached, the spine is usually rounded and grooves along the cover to act as hinges.

Canadian - A wiro bound publication with a wrap around cover and an enclosed spine. A complete wrap around is Canadian and a partial wrap around is half Canadian.

Sketchbooks

What is Graphic Design for Print? - Publishing / Editorial 
Typography Sketchbooks by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico 
Designed by Ashley Olsson, Published by Thames and Hudson
This is defiantly going on the christmas list, wonderful concept executed beautifully. A collection of extracts taken from designers and typographers sketchbooks, revealing their creative processes. Hand rendered type is also an area that I will explore this year, need to think about my choice of image or type.

Another area I am going to explore within the print module was working with the production of a book, I am particularly keen on using alternative materials on covers etc and thinking about what print methods would be appropriate to each material, and what makes the material appropriate to the context. Its these unique elements of books that draws me into them and makes me want to take them off the shelf.
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