Book Binding Workshop

Book Binding

We where looking at different methods of bookbinding, and how it can change the entire aesthetic of a book. We where later then tasked with testing out different methods for ourselves. I chose the hardest out of the three we where given to choose from which was the love hearts. I found it slightly confusing to begin with, but as I got the hang of it it went reasonably smoothly.

Below shows what I ended up producing and the social media coverage I also published.

I was then intrigued by the different methods of book bindings that comics and art books can use, so decided to further research the subject.

Reading up on all of the different stitching methods, my personal favourite is either side binding (Done by hand like I did in the above task) or tape bound. I love the tape bound idea because of the personal touch that can be added, but also the neatness and quite a smooth aesthetic which is a preference of mine.

However they are both rather labour intensive, or expensive especially for a small book which will be in a large (hopefully) serialisation. Hence I will be looking into staple binding, saddle stitching.

As far as hard backs go, eventually i would love to look into getting a hard back edition made of my comics, however as far as most printers go they require 30 pages or more. With this comic being capped at 24 this time around it is not an option. However, I may look into it again at some point in the future when I have more chapters to combine into one large edition.

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