Planning an Art Book

With all the work that I have created over the time I have been on this course, I wanted to bring all the design work into one printed outcome, an art book. I really want to make one for the end of year show, having a physical book with all my work just seems like the perfect way to tie everything together. In addition, I want to print this art book for both myself, my family and the end of the year show. At a tutorial, one of my tutors told me about Cafe Press and  Print Cafe. Cafe Press allows you to customise anything from stationary to mugs, t-shirts and pillows, however when I looked at the journal printing, it is only a spiral bound book and you can only customise the cover. I wanted to make a full art book so I looked at the other site, Print Cafe. Print Cafe specialises in fine art and dissertation printing, the hard bound books looked gorgeous. When I went back to talk to my tutor about using this site, they said that it would probably be cheaper with buying more than one, like 10. It might seem more expensive but it would be cheaper per book. I could then go on to give art books to my family and studios that I visit. It would be something different and I definitely would leave an impression.

For the content of the art book, I am definitely adding my Merged Perspective boards from the COP3 module, with all the thumbnail designs and character sketches which would work successfully with the art book I recently made for the Extended Module, The Shadow of Cy. As both projects use the same characters it would be a nice addition to have these elements together.

I would have to make a new layout for this art book as both of the art books that I have done so far have completely different approaches and I want the final art book to be simple and tie in each element. With regards to layout, I want to contextualise each piece of work, or a page before the project, so that the spectator has more information on the project, the thoughts on decision making for certain design choices etc. I think this would be a nice addition to have alongside the rest of my work and marketing designs at the end of year show.

I will be making the art book during the preparation of the end of year show.