Bookmaking

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Bookmaking
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How it all started

• Written works in the ancient world
• began with the clay tablets and stone
  inscriptions of Sumeria.
• The Egyptians, with a new material for writing
  made from reeds called papyrus, created a new
  format, the scroll, over 3000 years ago.
• The codex is the form of the book, as we now know
  it with boards over sequential paper pages bound
  together.
• For religious texts or more important works, an
  expensive illustration, called illumination, was
  used.

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• Johannes Gutenberg, approximately 1452, was the
  first to use movable type - letters cast
  individually from metal - enabling the rapid
  printing of both multiple copies and multiple
  titles of books.
• Lithography and offset printing replaced cast
  type and soon books, newspapers, broadsides,
  handbills, posters, and more were coming off the
  presses in larger and larger numbers.

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• Early computers enabled the use of
  photocomposition, or the photographing of digital
  text and images created on the computer onto film
  or paper for printing.
• Current computers and personal computing devices
  have enabled the invention of electronic books -
  books with no physical component at all.

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Here is an example of student work.

• strong craftsmanship
• a great design and layout
• an innovative way of incorporating her lettering
  into the story
• a good use of the back and front on each page of
  her book

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Requirements for your book

• At least 4 drawing media
• At least 1 non-traditional media
• At least 2 painting media (watercolor and
  tempera)
• At least 3 media on each page
• Must have a title
• Must have front and back of pages completed
• Must have at least 6 pages