Over the past few days, I had been experimenting with a few different ideas. I had gone out and bought some card and other materials to have a play around with. The main one which I experimented with (and can be seen in my physical workbook) is the idea of embossing into the cover. I played around with embossing it into the page, or having it coming out of the page.
I also had a go at doing some Japanese binding with some black thread. It was good to get a test one done, as I realised that if I am to use this method, I will either need to use some thicker thread, or go through multiple times. I also noticed that it's quite difficult to make the thread real tight which could be an issue. If I choose this binding method, I will either need to have a few more test runs, or get it bound at Modern Book Binders or some other book binding store.
By next week, we have been asked to have one typographic cover and one material cover. I'm going to get onto the Laser Cutter and give that a go, so that I can begin playing with the idea of creating Facades as my book cover design. I'm also going to head into Big Picture and print out a typographic book cover with some clear ink, white on white.
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