Designing Books
CIS 116
Spring 2018
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This intensive course will help students to understand how books are physically designed and created. Students will learn to use the book format in their work as a means of expanding, preserving, and restructuring ideas. After a visit to Special Collections and Archives to look at examples of artists' books and a review of 1200 years of Eastern and Western book binding types, students will make at least eight books, including an accordion book, a long-stitch book, a Coptic stitch book, side-sewn bindings including a Japanese four-hole stitch books, variations on pamphlet binding and a map fold book, as well as a simple box. The properties of bookbinding materials will be discussed in detail. No prior experience is necessary. |
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| Credit: .5 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NSM CIS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
THE PENLAND BOOK OF HANDMADE BOOKS: MASTER CLASSES IN BOOKMAKING TECHNIQUES
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will make at least eight books. |
| Instructor(s): Biddle,Michaelle L. Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 6 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 1 |
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