Book making equipment, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale
Last weekend was pretty intense; Saturday was the first day of my two day Intro to Photo Book Design workshop, which included the drive from south Orange County up to mid-town Los Angeles and back. Then Sunday back up to LA to judge the International Photo Book Competition for Photo Independent. Wowwie, back to back days driving into LA, fortunately traffic was comparatively light on the weekends than it is mid-week.
During the workshop I was using some tools and equipment to construct the book dummies other than what was on the list for the participants to bring; I was not sure that they needed to purchase this other stuff just yet.
So the extra things in my book dummy art box includes: a long-reach stapler (regular staplers do not have a deep enough “throat” to be effective with larger paper) for saddle stitch binding, a center-finding rule (I brought the short 18″, leaving the 36″ in the studio), a metric ruler (if you a going to produce your book outside the U.S., need to go metric!), a hole-punch, and finally a plastic bone-folder to crease and fold heavier paper stock.
The workshop participation was enthusiastic and it appeared that everyone was well into some serious photo editing and sequencing. Next they will continue building their book dummies at home in preparation for next Saturday’s workshop session to discuss, analyze and develop their book projects even further. I am now equally inspired to work on another book dummy as well, so that might be bit of a surprise for the workshop group next Saturday.
Cheers!
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