Publication Process

09/03 PUBLICATION PROCESS

The bookbinding workshop I took part in was extremely helpful for the direction of my final piece, as I knew I wanted to create a publication but I did not realise the potential of the various book types there were and how they can work and imply completely different stories. I used some of my sketchbook illustrations in the workshop to get a better idea of how this would work alongside my subject. The buildings/city scape illustration worked really well within the book, as flipping through the pages revealed the panoramic view of what was going on, which would work if I wanted to reveal all the different stories on people in these crowded spaces. I created my own mock-up publication ideas that would work with just images to show my theme rather than writing too. Creating buildings through the shape and size of the paper creates a much more interesting and well thought out publication, in my opinion. think of new possibilities for my own. I was also able to get some helpful insight on my own work and improvements as some people had seen my work at the beginning so they knew what would work best with my subjects and how I could incorporate my new ideas into it. I felt much more confident after that. I continued to research into artists who explored these themes however my visual idea generation is something I need to work on faster as I have changed my idea slightly so I need to ‘catch-up’ on getting to a final piece quicker.

Being able to present what I had already worked on to my peers was very helpful as I could see what they were thinking of doing for their final pieces which helped me to