Week to Week Bookforms
Cost: $705.00
LOCATION: Cooper Union Campus
6 In-Person Sessions
Thursdays, June 13–July 25, 2024 (Skip date: July 4)
6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Learn how to organize your written and visual material into a variety of book and box forms: folded, sewn and glued, soft/hardbound, booklets, books, and boxes.
For those who like working with their hands, and want to learn accessible ways of assembling and organizing printed material. From creative pamphlets, to fine art editions; use the skills you learn to enhance your art and design practice and make finished works. We will think about books conceptually: as material which is "in-formation," reproducible yet experienced intimately. Existing material can be brought to class to bind, and students may print work ahead. Or come and make blank books.
This is a practical and hands-on class. Demos followed by a class workshop. Week to week new forms will be introduced.
All levels are welcome, and open to beginners. Should be confident with an Olfa knife and executing relatively precise manual tasks.
Materials List
- Pointed 6" bone folder $5.70
- Olfa snap off blade large knife $8.72
- Olfa 300 standard knife $7.99
- round glue brush 1.25" $14.99 or 1" if on a budget $9.95
- PH neutral PVA glue 16oz $11.66
- Book cloth your choice $15-$20
- End paper your choice, something you found/have or decorative paper from Talas
- Rulers, thin with measurements and thick for cutting board
- Squares/triangles for measuring right angles
- Self-healing cutting mat (useful if you have a portable one)
- Instructor will order materials for the class (book board, paper for blank books, bookbinders thread, #18 blunt bookbinding needle) coming to approximately an additional $27 per student.
- Other tools and materials provided. Some flexibility in cost of materials if students want to bind books with repurposed paper and fabric.
Course Code: book0624
Instructor(s): Georgia Küng
