Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Handmade Book [Poem] Concept

The concept that I wanted to originally go for, and am still attempting to go for, is a love journal. Kind of like a composition notebook, I want to alter pages so that on one side it's doodles like one would create when bored in their room or in class, and on the other have the actual poem. I selected a lot of poems to chose from and after thinking about it, I wanted to create a love journal. By incorporating a really deep love poem, I wanted to make this journal look like the thoughts of the person who created it. I wanted to give it an original notebook/diary feel and this is the reason why I wanted to use doodles & random drawings on the opposite pages of the actual poem. I plan to give it a regular spiral binding and use stock paper to create the book. Another thing I plan to do to the book is place Velcro pieces on the ends of the pages to create a book within itself. Once you open the Velcro pieces, a letter is revealed that goes together with the poem. On every other page there is a new letter,and the reason why I decided to do this was to prove the poem correct by incorporating real pieces of letters to the supposed person in the poem.

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