51-426 Design Center: Beginning Book Arts Lab
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Beginning Book Arts Lab Class. 6units. This class is a prerequisite for the Advanced Book Arts Workshop Lab Class. This is a class of basic issues regarding hand bookbinding and letterpress printing. Its purpose is to develop a basic structural sense of book forms, of flat format work and of three dimensional forms. Learning hand craft techniques, developing hand skills and the sensitivity to materials are also a goal. Binding projects assigned will target the unique nature of papers, fabrics and archival cardboards. Structural procedures and techniques will be identified with each assigned binding project. The binding projects will be A hardcover for a paper back book, a single signature book, a multisignature book with flat spine, and a box construction. The box project is designed and crafted to contain a small letterpress printed class edition, either in book form, or as a set of unbound pages. The letterpress component teaches the standard issues, unique to the relief process, in press work, handset procedure of cast metal type, page form spacing, lockup of pages in press, proofing, and production printing. Each semester a small class edition project of text content and image, in twocolor registration, is designed, hand set and printed. Image generation can be by hand cut block, assembled typehigh forms, or digital process to polymer plate. This class is not to be repeated.
Prerequisites: none listed
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