Level 6: cover

I found this really quite interesting, straightforward cover from Nippon Design Centre. It's just a series of three colours of books bound. So if I took art, Simply put it in the front. I'm not sure if my book needs a title on the front of it to be on the first page after. But I found this one really quite appealing. The peacefulness of the blank cover references the peace of the forests quite well. I think that might be a good way to go.

stamp

Ask my idea for the cover is to use fabric. I can't print on it. Therefore I wanted to test that if I could make his stamp. Out of rubbers. Because I've seen the print stuff do that for printing other stuff. So I thought maybe I'd be able to make a stamp for the title. Turns out carving that small letters out of an eraser are quite difficult. I think it's kind of fun, but it doesn't have the sophistication of the book that I'm making, so I don't think it would work. I also have this stamp kit reminiscent of letterpress. But I still don't feel like it's quite right. The peas don't look in proportion to me, and with all the round letters, it's all I see now, so I can't do that.

what to cover with

There are quite a lot of wasted do a cover. I got some book room from the print in green colour and in some Brown tones. They look kind of cool, but I kinda prefer having fabric as it would be natural and referencing the mushroom logs that you can buy. Ideally, I would want a mushroom log as the cover, but it's not really doable. Using linen instead with their for reference and natural fabric and a colour reminiscent of some mushrooms whilst being neutral and would fit on the coffee table, so be aesthetically pleasing. I think the Brown colour. Love the bookram would be off-putting.

To connect the book, I want to bind it with an on paper to cover the growing on of whatever cover I got. Went to the library and found all the colours I thought might work. I'm not sold on any of them. I think the green works the best with linen, but it's also a bit obvious. I also brought back a blue one, and I think that's quite cool. I asked some pays mine, and they prefer the blue one as it was less obvious—also, a bit more calm, serene feel to it.

After looking at the different ways of printing the cover, I think I'm going to leave it blank and rather have the title on the 1st signature of the book. This way, when he opened it, you'll know What the book is about, but not before. I think that would be quite interesting.

I tested out pulling the cover with linen and it does work. It's really fiddly and in order to fit the book there's a lot more space in between it that's needed. I think it looks really nice though, and I do prefer it to any of the other methods. As you can see the book room just is too shiny. And also it's not an actual fabric, it's plastic covered. This way the book would be. Able to breakdown, which I kinda like the idea of.