Craft Hints

Craft is important. Clean edges and thoughtful presentation can mean the difference between a good project and a great project.

Last Semester I took a Bookarts with Kate Borcherding. If you are a GRAPHICS major I highly recommend taking it as soon as possible because kowledge of the correct way to fold, crease, and bind will improve your portfolio.

Helpful Tools
book awl
Bone Knife (folding knife) or Dull non-serrated butter knife
The Very Handy and Helpful Book!

$28-15 on Amazon

if your not interested in owning the helpful handy book then I suggest you spend some time online looking a different ways to bind, and then make small dummy books to keep on hand.

Japanese Stab Binding is a very useful to have in your repertoire:

you can even youtube tutorials!




I hope this helps!