Book Design

Haverford’s Dictionary

Adhesive-Bound Book

This soft-cover, perfect bound book takes the hilarious food slang words of Parks & Recreation’s Tom Haverford, such as “Bean Blankets” (tortillas) and “Food Rakes” (forks) and adds on many more, creating a dictionary of food terms in several different categories.

This was one of two books I made in my senior Materials & Finishing class in a project where we learned every type of book binding. From Chicago Press to Saddle Stitching, we practiced each technique before choosing two to use on our own designs - one mechanical and one perfect bound.

cinemABC

Non-adhesive bound book

The other book I made in this project was cinemABC. For this book, I had an idea to combine two of my greatest passions: typography and film.

I thought it would be fun to make an alphabet game based on unique letterforms from movie titles. Each letter was recreated in Illustrator using the pen, rectangle, ellipse and polygon tools.

The book was bound in the Japanese sewing technique, a personal favorite.

Survival Guide: Animal identification page

Collaborative project/book

Staying Alive and Other Useful Skills was a book created by a team of nine Design Production seniors in Design 473: Advanced Design Production.

We decided to make a guide for survival in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. I worked on the cover with two other designers. The guide was split into two sections: survival skills & plant and animal identification. For my animal identification page, I chose the ever elusive Sasquatch.

Each of us designers hand-stitched the books to distribute to the rest of our class.