Portfolio Book that I designed as part of a project to showcase my design projects and exercises in my Introduction to Digital Media course.

To start off the project, I wrote a brief synopsis of each one of the projects done in course. Then I laid out the pages of the book in QuarkXpress. The layout included these synopses as well as reduced images of the course design projects and exercises. Then I adhered the printouts of these pages to a book I’d put together with pages made up of handmade papers adhered to bristol board. The front and back covers of the book were binders board that I covered with a metallic paper and collaged images onto that I associated with the course. The binding of the book was a hinge made of duct tape and held together with three found screws and bolts. As added value I made a bookmark out of this cartoon I found in the paper that applied to one of our projects in the course.

Date
April 30, 2001

Course
Introduction to Digital Imagery

Instructor
Heather Cooley

Printer
Kinko’s

Dimensions
Printouts: 8½" x 11"
Book: Approximately 1’ x 1½’

Typefaces
Beat My Guest, Letter Gothic BT, Dignity of Labour, Burnstown Damn, Biometric Joe, Goose, Stitch Bitch, Living by Numbers, Comic Sans, American Typewriter and Impact.

Materials
Magazine Cutouts, Various Handmade Papers, Bristol Board, Duct Tape, Computer Printouts, Modge Podge, Spray Adhesive, Screws and Bolts.