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Printing of my Final Book

Posted by roshni on December 18, 2009

Printing my final book was a complete disaster….it took  me 4 days to finally get the final book ready from the printer after printing about 7-8 copies Since the printing shop did a poor job of cutting and stapling the book, I finally decided to just get the pages printed by them and trim them and bind the book myself.

Here is a picture of the print shop I went to in Brooklyn all the way from New Jersey….

Advice to anyone designing a book in the future is to set your goals for a week before the book is supposed to be ready cause printing will take forever….

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The Fashion Police

Posted by roshni on December 17, 2009

So as many of you already know I couldn’t really make up my mind or ran into issues so switched my final book design like 3 times. Originally I wanted to create a book for my grandmother but the pictures I had were original photographs and scanning them into the pc didn’t give me high resolution pictures. So I changed my mind and went onto make a book on Napa Valley. I have been dying to go to Napa and have planned a trip in my spring break so I thought it would come into use when I travel i wont have to pickup 101 flyers or brochures as I would have everything ready in one book. But then I went out with my friend Pallavi to help her out with her photo shoot of 5th ave during Fashion Week. I have been to 5th avenue like a million times in my life and its always felt nice to be walking in 5th avenue except the day we went for photoshoot. All the stores on 5th avenue had some special activity going on. Stores were serving some finger bite snacks with wine or champagne. The people were walking around these stores were dressed as if they were attending the Oscar’s party.There was live band music with different performances. It actually felt wierd being around because we weren’t dressed appropriately.We were in our casual jeans with sneakers and were looked upon by people who probably wondered what the hell were we doing in these stores in the first place. We requested for permissions before we took pictures in any store so we didn’t offend anyone out there. It was a great experience, but I could never imagine really living that lifestyle which I thought was absolutely insane or crazy…. Common this is the time that everyone is talking about job loss and recession and then you really begin to wonder where is the recession. When I saw the pictures on my computer I was amazed…I found the pictures to be so good that I forgot all about my wine book and at once decided to change my book and make one for my friend. SHe is an excellent photographer and I wanted to make something that she can actually keep and show her work to other people. This is to small for her portfolio but definitely will be the icing on the cake for her. My experience with the printing this book was actually a disaster..I printed about 4-5 copies before the final version. Fedex or Staples were not able to give me the paper I wanted for my book so I had to use a professional printer. I am lucky I have a print shop I work with through my work who charged me his cost price and didn’t kill me for printing those four five copies. I think working on this final book has given me a lot more confidence for the future to be able to design and print properly.

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Visit to the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair.

Posted by roshni on November 12, 2009

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 It was a Saturday morning and I just finished my Eng 2850 literature class, and I decided to go to the Book fair. I was lucky I found parking easily because I was in a bad mood since the morning after I had received a parking ticket at 10.01am for $65 and I had put money till 10 am and was running down to feed the meter. The book fair made my mood better. First I had entered the wrong one which was right beside X-Intitiative, but then walked over to the right one.

There were a lot of cool books to go through but the prices were ridiculous..I love a book and wanted to buy it but just left it after i heard that it was almost $1700. I almost fainted hearing that price. But the 6 books that i really liked were:

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  1. ON THE ROAD TOO. BOOK 1: NEW YORK-LAS VEGAS – NEW YORK by  Peter Spaans.

I simply love New York. New York always gets me excited, looking at skyline, the bridges, the buildings gives me a new hope to live everyday. And I had gone to Las Vegas this summer and totally LOVVEEEE  Vegas. I cant wait to go back and gamble my brains off. So this book was like my perfect book. I really wanted to buy this book, so I asked the price and the lady said 1695, I assumed it was $16.95 but then found out that it was $1695 and I was like this must be crazy. It was a thick book with just pictures and kept in a box with a cover. Details of the book were:

On the Road Too, The deluxe box version. Including 10 seperate photographs. First publised in Amsterdam. Edition 75. All photographs by Perer Spaans and text by Dan Schmidt.

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                2. Concepts by Katie Tompson.    

This was a wierd but interesting book. It was by called Editions Concepts by Katie Tompson.  Katie used to keep a diary when she was in high school and college and she had lost it after college. After 14 years someone actually called her up to give her the lost diary. Katie was shocked and got very emotional when she read her words after 14years. Life had changed so much. So she thought to preserve her work this time and made loose sheets with her text in the background and one or two pictures corresponding to the text. This text has a white border and is on very thick paper which a lose handwritten font.

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3. Utopian Bands by Mark Harris.

This was another book with a hard cover that opens. The book didn’t have any form of binding, it was lose sheets like woodcuts. These 6 woodcuts were based on the photographs from the “Utopian- Bands” concert that Mark had organized in Beijing. The paper wasn’t trimmed properly and had uneven cuts which was made deliberately in reference to a popular Chinese tradition of “paper cuts” that has many regional variations. The text in the images are taken from each Band’s lyrics or their press statements. It was cool to see a piece like that. Details: Utopian- Bands, 2008. A suite of six woodcuts 14”by 15” sheet. Edition 20. Box set with DVD $1500, individual prints are $300 each.

 

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4. Iannone, Dorothy. Lists (IV) from The Book of D+D.

This book seemed interesting because I have never seen a book which was screw bound. This was in a showcase and I actually asked them to take it out so I can have a look at it so see how the book was bound with screw but they were not allowed to do so. Book details: This was composed of 21 sheets of padded glossy synthetic white plastic and they had black Iannone’s characteristics design printed on it. Each sheet was hole- punched and screw ring bound. Limited to 30 editions.

 

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5. Yasumasa Morimura- On Selfportrait Through the Looking Glass.

Self-portrait was a living experimentation of Yasumasa in which she attempted to shift herself into the Kingdom of art. The packaging of this book blew me away and that bronze sculpture you get with the book actually attracted me with that eye in the center of the hand. This was a limited edition of 60 luxury boxes with a choice of 1 original color print of 2 different images, a bronze sculpture with a book (hardcover) all came in a handmade black velvet box with grey and red velvet lining. The presentation of this whole box with the book was amazing. This special edition was $3700.

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6. This was not a book but just paintings. I was very shocked to see this piece of art in the gallery. It made me missssssssssss home. He has paintings of all Hindu Gods and was telling another woman, how and where he got these paintings from. I was shocked to see the prices because we can buy very similar paintings to the ones he had for maybe 2-3% of the price he had them for. He was charging about $600-$1200, for his paintings and this one in the picture was $895. He was telling us how rare these are and the villages he has traveled to in India where he found these. I was just nodding my head and agreeing to whatever he was saying but they are really ripping people off by selling those paintings for that much money.

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Trip to Fed-Ex.

Posted by roshni on November 5, 2009

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I went to the Fed-Ex which is located near my office in New Jersey. The address is as below. I chose this location because it is convenient for me and I have had a bad experience with the Fed-ex store near our college. One of the employees was extremely rude and had no sense of customer service what so ever.

So here is the Fed-Ex I picked:

FedEx Kinko’s is now
FedEx Office Print & Ship Center
41 Eisenhower Pky
Roseland, NJ 07068
(973) 618-0950

The representative was nice and polite and has been working there for about a year so he knows his job well.

Here are the answers to our questions for printing, trimming, folding, binding

1) Cost to print a double sided paper in color with laser printing on 11×17 inch copy paper is $4.31 per page.

2) They charge us $1.49 per cut for crop/ bleed marks.

3) They charge 3 cents per fold for each sheet.

4) Coil binding is available for $5+ tax..  They do offer perfect binding but price is determined when the job is ready and they have to upload the file onto their system to give us a quote.IMG_4854

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Japanese Style Binding.

Posted by roshni on October 29, 2009

For our project on Japanese style binding , I had actually created an entire book with pictures on Napa Valley but then I loved the pictures so much that I wanted to use them for my final book so last minute i decided to change it to a book on My Visit to Niagara Falls. I had all my pictures taken but some of the pictures were not high in resolution so I was using some pictures from the internet. When i was half way into the designing of the book I felt a little weird about putting up pictures of my family and I didn’t know if we were allowed to use our own pictures because we were asked to get pictures online so then I just used pictures from the internet but i still kept the Niagara Falls as my theme. I am very emotional when it comes to pictures thats why I didn’t want to use my own. For the cover , I had bought this beautiful cover thick paper for my book on wine and thats why I had picked green but then used it for the Niagara falls photobook. I think when i get back my book from Prof Sheehan I will probably undo the book and then use another cover because I would love to keep my book for the future.

At first the binding of the book felt difficult but then I got the trick after trying it on two things before I stitched my photo book but I personally would have preferred to do a saddle stitch in the book with a top cover because I like the stitching to be hidden.

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Japanese style binding

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My Idea for the Final Project.I

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I am actually confused as to what I should really do for my final project. I really want to make two things.

  1. A Photo Book created on either Kodak or any other online photography website. I would love to make a picture album with about 50-75 pictures as memory of my late grandmother and the family. I would print 1 test copy first and then print about 30 copies and give them to each of our family members. This would be of sentimental value to me and my family as it will be kept as lovely memories of all the good times that we have spent with my grandmother. I always count myself in one of the few people who actually get to spend a big part of their life or atleast their first 15-20 years with grandparents. The love and affection we receive from them is way beyond words can express. I have always been very fond of taking pictures cause when see them they take you back down the memory lane and give you peace and joy. So I will definitely want to create a photo album with all those pictures. I have a lot of them that i have started scanning them onto my pc as I want to include pictures from back in the 80 ‘s and 90’s when we only had hard copy prints and not digital cameras to save pics on your pc’s.

2.My second option that  I am also very inclined to do is to make a guide book to the Napa Valley in California. I have visited a lot of vineyards in Long Island and have always wished to go to Napa. I’m interested not only in the wine tasting rooms but in the way wine is made and stored. Its amazing to see the big farms with grapes growing and you wonder how these grapes are made into wine, also how grapes can taste in so many different ways. Wine selections range from Cabernet, Merlot, Coppola, Pinot Noir, Shiraz….and the list just goessss on and on. So I would love to make a book as a guide to the Napa Valley which would  include a little about the History of Napa, the geographical part -weather,irrigation,soil,land, things like what to do in Napa – take tours with guides or you can tour on your own, to how the grapes are processed into wine and then about the wine tasting.

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Visit to New York Art Book Fair

Posted by roshni on October 9, 2009

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Visit to The New York Art Book Fair

Visit to The New York Art Book Fair

I visited PS150 on October 3,2009 to see the New York Art Book Fair. The place didn’t look like a school at all. I thought it was an exhibition place. I bumped into Prof. Sheehan who suggested me to walk through both floors first looking at all the work and then coming back to the ones I liked. The place looked beautiful with such different kinds of books. It was actually kind of hard to come back to the ones I liked because there were just sooo many of them. Also the place was a maze every room was connected to another one and was a little difficult to find the place where I had seen all the books I liked. However I really liked the following books.

  1. Forbe By Visitor– This book was interesting because it was like the Abecedarium which we had just designed. The book consisted of thick pages and the alphabets were carved out on the page like we can see on the cover. It was a cool concept.

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Made in France 8 Artists and the Graphic Novel. I liked the publishing of this book because there were 8 books which were stapled. The front cover also serves as a pocket on the inside and holds the 8 books inside.

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  1. Uncovered – Photographs by Thomas Allen. Foreword by Chip Kidd. This was a hard cover book and the front cover was revealing the book. The book had all photographs. Editor Nancy Grubb. Designer: Francesca Richer. First edition. Aperture Foundation. I was planning to make my final book for the class as a book full of pictures hence I took a little more time to see how the designer must have designed the book and see what pattern it follows.

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La De Melodie Tur Di di – Imagerie par Warja lavater. Adrien Meaght Editeur Paris. I loved this book has been designed. It was hard cover accordion fold which stood extremely well on the table. It was very attention-grabbing. It stood so well on the table and well just that moment my battery of the camera died so i couldn’t take a picture. i tried with my phone but it came out fuzzy.

Alfredo JAAR –Two or three things I imagine about them. This was a set of 2 books one of them was a copy of a passport and the other was a soft cover book. Both were bundled together. this gave it a feel like a person is traveling would keep their passports along with their book or have the guide to the place he is visiting to read on the aircraft or . Very realistic approach.

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Thoughts on Publications.

Posted by roshni on October 1, 2009

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Thoughts on Publication

  1. Autobiography on Andy Roddick. Would like to use Perfect Binding style and insert a lot of pictures. 15-20 pages. Some glossy paper but all thick card stock paper. Hard cover.
  2. Book on Long island Vineyards. Magazine style. Thin but glossy paper. Include all the vineyards in long island. The process of how wine is made. The different seasons. About 30 pages. Use perfect binding style.
  3. Accordion style 4 fold flyer for a concert.
  4. Make a photo album hard with card stock paper of different colors and paste pictures of family. Post Binding
  5. Make a brochure for a trade show. Use saddle stitch binding.
  6. Make a catalog of clothes and have it spiral binding.
  7. Make a journal for future use and have it spiral bound.
  8. Make an art book with paintings only. It will be hard cover and case bound.

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Visit to Printed Matter

Posted by roshni on September 17, 2009

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Art 3041

Prof: Sheehan

Date: September 10, 2009

 

Visit to Printed Matter.

 

A few publications that I really liked were:

1.   Tripod by Asher Penn

  • Price- $7
  • Binding – Paperback Stapled.
  • Edition year 2009
  • Edition size: unknown

It was just amazing to see how the entire book only had pictures of the tripod. The pictures were taken from different angles of the room, which showed the tripod standing with other paintings and pictures sitting on the floor and hung on the wall. Even though there looked like very similar pictures it kept me looking out for those minute details in the background and made it more interesting.

 

2.   The Studio of Dr.Mabuse by Jason Fox.

  • Price- $30
  • Binding – Sewn
  • Hardcover
  • Printing Method: Offset printing color
  • Edition size: unknown

 

The front of the book was plain black with the title printed, which gave it a very classy look. The paper used was also a thick cardboard style which made the black and white picture stand out with the white borders all around the pictures.

 

3.    We All Laughed At Christopher Columbus by Krist Gruijthuijsen and November Paynter

  • Price- $45
  • Binding – Sewn
  • Printing Method: Offset printing color.
  • Edition size: 1000

I just loved the cover of the book. The text was flowing from the back cover into the front cover, which looked very cool.

 

4.   Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan.

  • Price- $20
  • Binding – Glue with inner stiches.
  • Printing Method: Offset printing black and white.
  • Edition size: unknown.

This book looked so simple because the cover was a plain yellow color with the name of the book and authors name but as I opened the book it was so funny because there was no pattrn or format of writing the text inside. The poems were all spread out randomly with a couple lines on one page some printed vertically, some horizontally, some were random letters all around the page.

 

5.   Nazi Knife, Issue #5 by Jonas Delaborde and Hendrick Hegray

  • Price- $24
  • Binding – Paperback Glue
  • Printing Method: Offset printing color.
  • Edition size: unknown.

The front cover looks very interesting. It catches the eye and makes you want to open the book and seems there’s a deep meaning into the book.

 

6.   Clinkscale by Helen Douglas, Telfer Stokes

  • Price- $24
  • Binding – Accordion folds
  • Printing Method: Offset printing color.
  • Edition size: unknown.

This was very pretty. The front cover had a picture of a person playing an accordion and the back cover was the other half of the picture. This book was in an accordion fold and when you opened it up all we saw was fresh green grass. It was nice to see how the cover with a picture of the accordion matched with the format of the book.

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Hello world!

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