The plan is to make half a dozen (I have a list...). This one sprang from nowhere on a Sunday morning, and it took so long to make because of the many decisions involved, decisions that will affect the rest of the series.
Size - this can be variable in every dimension.
Materials - the boards can be any thickness, weight, or material; the covering is always black bookcloth - the unifying factor. I need to go buy several metres - each book takes quite a lot.
Title format - another unifying factor - this was the big decision, informed by many experiments. Using debossed lettering will keep the titles short. It's tricky to do, and I'll just have to be careful... Finding a font took a while - I'd like to use the same one for the series. Gill Sans Ultra Bold, with a bit of extra space between the letters, seems to work ok.
And the small matter of the contents - well, I have lots of ideas for the Black Books, and will make as many as time allows.
Hopefully the photo above showed the title - in some lighting conditions the reader will have to move the book to read it, the first step in interacting with the book.
... and might not have as many "pages" as a traditional book ...
3 comments:
Superb work, m!
Oooo, I like this.
And I chuckled at your description of decisions. Sometimes I think art is nothing but decisions, each one of which leads to several others, until the mind goes numb and refuses. Then it's random, either serendipitous or disasterous.
Thus far, looks serendipitous (if you got to the numb stage) to me. Or just a series of correctly made decisios:-)
Oh, Margaret, it's just exquisite and I love the addition of the Dewey number, of course!
All the best,
Dana
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