Sample Box - Concertina Fold Book Exemplars

Sampler box of 1 medium format and 16 miniature concertina books. 

Made as exemplars for beginners workshops.

(Housing measures 21w x 30h cm).

Constructed from 200gsm kraft paper, 180gsm Canson Aquarello, 

vellum, vintage book pages & found images.

Examples include:

 niches - tabs - pockets - sewn in signatures - stitched pages -

envelopes - magic wallet - woven - pop-ups -

fold-outs - windows - doubled - frames -

convoluted folds - slides - cut outs 

New Work - Two Sides to Every Story

 TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

Convoluted Concertina Fold, set of two, handmade  artists’ books (unique). 

Craft paper, rice paper, waterbased printing ink, acid free adhesive

(14.5cm h x 7.5cm w x 2cm d  - closed or 54cm d – fully open x 2 books)

Once again playing around with interwoven concertina folds, craft paper and printed feathers.  Good fun!

Double Accordion Artist Book Structure

Trying out different looks for the double accordion fold format

I have been playing with.

Prototypes

Have been working on some prototype book structures which have been rattling around in my head for quite a while.  So glad to get them out of my brain and into the real world - even happier that my ideas actually worked so flexibly in a structural form.  Now to work on some ideas for content.