FINAL BOOK PROJECT
EDITION OF 20

NAME: Lea Gonzales

A brief summary of the project. (3/4 sentences.)

In my next assignment I plan on doing a book about a poem about stairs.  The book will be titled “I saw a man who wasn’t there”.  It will be in a pop up book and include a poem by William Hugnes Mearns.

1.    A detailed description of the proposed book, describing:
•    Background (Research)
After reading the Smith text book and looking at the endless options, I ran into a book My Twelve Steps by Emily Martin (89 smith) I really loved the stair affect it gave and it reminded me of a poem I heard by Mearns.

•    Description of text
The text in my book will be simple and to the point.  The text will be the first few lines of the poem.  I feel that these lines tell a clear story.  I want the text to be a darker color forcing the reader to get uncomfortably close to this book to really portray that eerie feeling of a ghost that is watching you. The text will be printed on a colored paper on a computer.

•    Description of imagery
In my book the stairs will be poping out at you and there will a shadow of the stairs on the floor and a shadow of a man on the stair case. The shadows will be prodused by acrylic paint and stencils, from which I have hand made.

•    Description of composition/physical description/structure (including: sheet size, printing process used, typeface, binding, number of pages)
When the book is closed the cover will be all that is visible.  The cover of each book will be 9.5 inches tall by 7 inches wide. It will be covered with book cloth and be composed of book board. On the inside there will be a sheet of black paper to cover the board on the inside.  The pop up stairs will be made using one piece of 8.5inch by 11 inch card stock paper in a darker color.

•    Description of how the artist intends to produce the book
To produce the book I will cut out the book board to the desired size, then I will measure and cut out the book cloth then glue the board and the cloth together. After folding the cloth over the egdes and gluing them down then I will let it dry for a few hours. Once it is dry then I will glue the black paper on the inside of the book and let that dry. Then I will find the center of the cardstock paper and draw a line then I will draw half inch by 4.5 inch rectagles in a decending fashion. I will then cut the langth of these to make them pop out and fold them so that they form stairs. I will then cut the stairs out and glue them onto the black paper on the inside. After that is dry I will apply my stencil to the front inside cover so the man appers to be sitting on the step.  Then I will paint on the black acrylic paint for the man and the shadows of the stairs. After this I will glue the printed text going down the stairs.

The description should be sufficiently clear and detailed to give the reviewer complete understanding of the final product.

2.    A mockup/dummy of the book as the final product will appear in form and content.  When the final product will differ from the mockup, the differences should be described in detail.
The differences in my mock up and the final product will be minor. In the mock up I have used cardboard in the place of book board, and cloth in the place of book cloth. The inside of the book should be extremely similar in both the mock up and the final project.

3.    An estimated, itemized budget for an edition of 20 books.  Typical items on the budget are:

Materials
10 sheets of  26×20 black text paper ($0.60ea.) $6.00
one tube of Black Acrylic paint $6.00
printing
Chocolate 8 1/2 x 11 Paper, 2 10 Packs of Text Weight ($2.25ea.) $4.50

assembly
$9.95 for glue

binding
40 book boards ($1.00ea.) $40
8 yards of cover fabric (5.99yrd) $47.92

TOTAL COST: $74.37

A single number cost will not be accepted.
Budget items should be researched, and may be estimated based on this research.

PROPOSAL AND MOCK UP MUST BE TURNED IN BY 3:30, Thursday 11/5.

Sources for materials

Darryl Jensen

http://www.utrechtart.com/

http://shop.broadwaypaper.com/

http://search.paper-source.com/index/

http://artistanddisplay.com/

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FINAL BOOK PROJECT
EDITION OF 20

NAME: Lea Gonzales

A brief summary of the project. (3/4 sentences.)

In my next assignment I plan on doing a book about a poem about stairs.  The book will be titled “I saw a man who wasn’t there”.  It will be in a pop up book and include a poem by William Hugnes Mearns.

1.    A detailed description of the proposed book, describing:
•    Background (Research)
After reading the Smith text book and looking at the endless options, I ran into a book My Twelve Steps by Emily Martin (89 smith) I really loved the stair affect it gave and it reminded me of a poem I heard by Mearns.

•    Description of text
The text in my book will be simple and to the point.  The text will be the first few lines of the poem.  I feel that these lines tell a clear story.  I want the text to be a darker color forcing the reader to get uncomfortably close to this book to really portray that eerie feeling of a ghost that is watching you. The text will be printed on a colored paper on a computer.

•    Description of imagery
In my book the stairs will be poping out at you and there will a shadow of the stairs on the floor and a shadow of a man on the stair case. The shadows will be prodused by acrylic paint and stencils, from which I have hand made.

•    Description of composition/physical description/structure (including: sheet size, printing process used, typeface, binding, number of pages)
When the book is closed the cover will be all that is visible.  The cover of each book will be 9.5 inches tall by 7 inches wide. It will be covered with book cloth and be composed of book board. On the inside there will be a sheet of black paper to cover the board on the inside.  The pop up stairs will be made using one piece of 8.5inch by 11 inch card stock paper in a darker color.

•    Description of how the artist intends to produce the book
To produce the book I will cut out the book board to the desired size, then I will measure and cut out the book cloth then glue the board and the cloth together. After folding the cloth over the egdes and gluing them down then I will let it dry for a few hours. Once it is dry then I will glue the black paper on the inside of the book and let that dry. Then I will find the center of the cardstock paper and draw a line then I will draw half inch by 4.5 inch rectagles in a decending fashion. I will then cut the langth of these to make them pop out and fold them so that they form stairs. I will then cut the stairs out and glue them onto the black paper on the inside. After that is dry I will apply my stencil to the front inside cover so the man appers to be sitting on the step.  Then I will paint on the black acrylic paint for the man and the shadows of the stairs. After this I will glue the printed text going down the stairs.

The description should be sufficiently clear and detailed to give the reviewer complete understanding of the final product.

2.    A mockup/dummy of the book as the final product will appear in form and content.  When the final product will differ from the mockup, the differences should be described in detail.
The differences in my mock up and the final product will be minor. In the mock up I have used cardboard in the place of book board, and cloth in the place of book cloth.  The inside of the book should be extremely similar in both the mock up and the final project.

3.    An estimated, itemized budget for an edition of 20 books.  Typical items on the budget are:

Materials
Chocolate 8 1/2 x 11 Paper, 2 10 Packs of card stock paper $3.75ea. (7.50)

assembly
$9.95 for glue

binding
11 book boards at 1.70 each (18.70)
7 sheets of book paper 6.00 each (42.00)
plus tax= 12.51
TOTAL COST: $90.66

A single number cost will not be accepted.
Budget items should be researched, and may be estimated based on this research.

sorry about the picture quality I misplaced my camera cord

this is my 20 page book!!!

oh yeah and to make things worse yesterday i had a crit in a different class and now i can’t find my beloved notebook, so if anyone sees it its a little black book that has my name in pen on the inside of the front cover!!!!

My book is going to a book about the number twenty and the transition my of acquired from the time I was born til now. So it is everything I know about the number 20 in the order that I learned it. I think its a good idea if I’m on the wrong track let me know.

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here are some pages from my notebook!

the lace edge on bottom is hand cut

I was extremely pleased at how the cover turned out, however I had difficulty with glueing the two vary thick pieces of paper togather. I am not sure what I coulod have done differently to make it a smoother process.

the carving is done all by hand and painted with gold acrylic paint

the carving was not as hard as i though it would be, nor was the painting process. I was a little bumed that after painting the pages I had to thumb through each page so they wouldn’t stick togather.

the colophon was made using the MIAD press

My Colophon was my letterpress requirement for this project.  In doing this i expreiansed some problems dealing with letter shortage but made it work. another issue I was drying time. I never know that letterpress took so long to dry and even when you think that it is dry, well it’s not. I found out in my final critic that a good letterpress has to dry for a whole week!!!! crazy! anyways so that explaines the smuges on there.

this pic demonstrates the sliding cover

this aspect of the book was fairly simple, however in the final critic, it was suggested that the folded recipes be made of a higher quality paper, I agreed, but went far beyond my price rage on the cover paper alone. If I had unlimited founding this book would be amazing! lol

thats all folks!

then is like i am going to meet with Leslie today to figure out how to construct that sweat sliding cover of mine. one problem i have is figuring out what type of paper i will use, and where to get it. I also can’t spend a lot of money on it because, well i don’t have much to spend! ah the life of a college student

I am not by a scanner now but next post i will post more pages from the notebook and pictures of both my mock up copy and my final project so far.

LeA

http://www.netvibes.com/lesliefedorchuk#Students (pictures)