As Zak and I were currently organising shoots on the content side of the project, we decided to look at some of the well crafted books in our library to perhaps get an idea of how to package/create our 3 look books. We looked at several carefully crafted publications and studied their binds, paper stocks and prints.
This first publication explored texture within photography and expressed this through its stock. The stock was so rough that it effected the way the photographs were printed giving the content more an edge to its initial development. The binding was a very carefully executed Japanese stab stitch. This kind of made the book look less 'book' like and appear more as a stack of paper.
This second publication followed the story of a married couple using photography. The book opened as normal from a glance and then within the book lay two separate books, one attached to each end of the cover. You could flick through each book seemingly at the same time studying the content of both the husband and wife as some photos intend to cross over both publications at the same time. The result of this was either 2 separate reading experiences or one at the same time. This is something Zak and I would like to keep in mind when creating our look books, experiencing them all at the same time whilst they exist as their own entities.
One collection of books that was packaged well were these books titled 'MOM DAD'. They were seamlessly slotted into a thin box that left room for designing and branding the books whilst having the spines hanging out. This could work up to as many publications as possible.
Finally, the remaining books we studies shared contemporary binding techniques that added a subtle value to the publications. This is something we'd like to carry across to the development of our books. The first image demonstrates a more simple Japanese stab stitch, one a loop bind and another a kettle stitch/perfect bind.
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