Looking at your blank books
Talking about paper in general
Talking about paper for your books
Talking about book covers
Going over some typographic details to take care of
Bring in cover design options
Turn in your Corita postcards to Google Drive
Be getting things ready to be done!
Create a cover for your book. It should reflect the rest of the book’s design as well as its content. We’re treating this as a smaller part of the project, so it’s ok if the cover is simple.
Standard selection of stationery type papers. Some good things.
FedEx Office (on Tulane campus and on Tchoupitoulas)
Usually have some papers they’ll sell you just a few sheets of.
Turn in finished Corita Kent postcards below
Learning a bookbinding method
Talking about detailed type and how to work with it in Indesign
Talking about revised book schedule, seen here.
Choose a binding method – saddle-stitch or stab binding – and make a blank/scrap book the dimensions of your book using that binding method.
Make progress on getting your book’s details right.
Add a title page, colophon, and any other book parts you’re currently missing.
In this project, we’re doing two kinds of bookbinding: Stab binding and saddle stitch/pamphlet binding.
Download bookbinding instructions
YouTube stab binding tutorial:
These are all things I posted before but wanted to remind us of:
Upload your refined postcards here.