WORK COVER Reading Buckminster Fuller PLATE 1 Scanning the shelves PLATE 2 Focus AN EXPERIMENT IN OBSERVING PEOPLE AT WORK
PLATE 3 Collecting at the library
WORKER Emily Macaulay - Stanley James Press
PLATE 4 Letraset copying PLATE 5 Gathering materials PLATE 6 Copier PLATE 7 Moving between places PLATE 8 Tools PLATE 9 Folding PLATE 10 Binding PLATE 11 Modern furniture PLATE 12 Collections bound PLATE 13 Communicating an idea PLATE 14 Cutting, folding, gluing BACK COVER Making
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WHAT IS YOUR JOB TITLE? I guess a title that everyone would get straight away would be ‘Graphic designer’, that’s what I did at University, so it’s nice and easy to understand. I don’t really want to be restricted by a title, if I could pick any title it might be maker, but no one would understand what I do. So when people ask me I say, Graphic designer, bookbinder and printer. Then people look at me in a confused, overwhelmed not sure where to take the conversation sort of way. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU DO? I get or would get bored of only having one thing to do/one skill, so I collect skills. There are a few skills like letterpress, that I keep going back to and want to perfect, but I don’t think it would ever be the only thing I would be doing. Hopefully having a mass of skills helps to keep anything I am doing interesting. It becomes an amalgamation of all I know. Skill might not be the right word. Here are some that might be better - hobby, craft, interest, labour of love, obsession, occupation, activity, pursuit, passion. Emily Macaulay