Tuesday, December 12, 2006

junior majors process book

This is my process book for my graphic design junior majors class, its an overview of the whole semester, mostly from the graphic esign dept. but also from my personal life as I was going through this semester.
I chose to make it a picture book of the semester of pictures and inspirations throughout the time, it also has some examples of work in it, I wanted to keep it mostly process though and not so much of the finished work, since most people in the class and the teacher had already seen the work, so i wanted to get across my process. It has a big section in it for my time at Rogues Gallery, the company who I've been interning for since working there has been such a big part of my semester. I dont have any progress work for this book, its just the finalized book because I got this book done pretty fast, in about two days, working nopne stop though and in the studio till 7am, but besides that it got done fast. I binded it myself, glueing the pages together in the seam, and then sewing the book to the cover which is chipboard, then using some canvas I'v had around and made a cover out of it, then using a blending marker to put my name on the cover, and process book on th inside cover as well as the hand on the back inside cover.
I've always enjoyed making books when I've had to for assignments, I want to learn more about the binding process, because what i've been doing is pretty much self done with not much knowledge about it, I think they tur out pretty well for not knowing but I want to take a class on book making i think to get to know how to successfully bind a book without worrying about it falling apart for some reason.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

kris:
it's so beautiful!!! (as is your sketchbook by the way). was your professor totally blown away? my favorite part is the photos of the people pressed against glass, but really the whole thing looks very elegant and professional. do you dig chip kidd at all?

i'm really going to have to step up my game for the blood book.

hope your xmess is good.

ps. nice hope anchor drawing.

-allie.

kris johnsen said...

thanks allie, i want to see this blood book when you finish it!