Monthly Archives: May 2022

Book Arts, Workshops

My recent bookbinding workshops at UAL

I’ve been teaching on the BA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins and BA Graphic Design at Camberwell this year, here are some photos of what we’ve done.

Stage 2 and 3 workshops at CSM

GCD Stage 2: Making a collaborative concertina book with hand-carved rubber stamps. February 2022
The finished concertina book.
Some of the students’ rubber stamp prints.
Students making a phase box. Instructions can be found in Kathy Abbott’s book, there is a copy available for reference in the Publications workshop.
Phase box close-up.
Phase-box closed.
Buttonhole book: the binding is explained in Keith Smith’s book “Non-Adhesive Binding: Books without Paste or Glue: 1” which can be found in the Publications Workshop and the UAL library.
Pop-up card with a house. Instructions can be found in Duncan Birmingham’s book “Pop-up design and paper mechanics” which is available for reference in the Publications Workshop.
We had fun drawing the details of the pop-up houses!

After-school bookbinding club at Camberwell

Printmaking session: Making rubber stamps for decorating book covers or endpapers.
More rubber stamps.
Gloria (a year 3 Graphic Design student) showed us this beautiful book she made. The pages are sewn together with a sewing machine, the binding is handsewn.
The inside of Gloria’s book features collected drawings from other students.
Gloria showed us how to sew this binding, the technique resembles cross-stitch
We finished off our books by adding rubber stamp covers.