VMAP 257

Introduction to bookbinding (Western and non-Western), material and digital printing techniques, and typesetting skills through work on individual and collaborative studio projects. Explores concepts such as sequencing, text and image, and content and structure relationships. Study of the evolution of the artists book and contemporary practice in this medium, basic bookbinding and printing skills, and creation of artist books using woodcut, photopolymer etching, digital text and imaging tools, and collage and extended media.