All the commas and full stops taken from the UK government’s 2020 guidelines for Staying at home and away from others (social distancing).
This pattern was made into a screen print and was the front page of a zine.
Mixed Signals
A limited edition of 25 Risograph prints. Printed on A3 paper (140gsm), this work cuts and splices signal flags together to produce a glitchy, abstract pattern. A message may hide therein.
Book Forms - Tablet, bamboo, scroll, papyrus, codex rotundus, French doors, fortune teller, concertina, map fold, Turkish map fold, loose leaf newspaper, Dwarsligger, flip book, note book, pop up book, miniature, kamishibai, paperback, iPad, artist’s book
Blog: Book Forms
More Book Forms - hardback, dos-à-dos (back-to-back), zine, concertina, octopus, papyrus scroll, illustrated manuscript, guide book, carousel, choose your own adventure books, experimental books, manga, photobook, bunkobon, dragon scale binding, the anti-book, text books, audiobooks, microform film, and the book as sculpture (Robert The, Readers' Digest).
Even More Book Forms - Japanese stab binding, swatch book, crown binding, fan book, Bananote (by @pichikpachik), exploded book, digital sketchbook, flag book, exquisite corpse, Victorian peep hole, chapbook, passport, colouring book, smart phone book, scroll book (Ai Hashimoto), message in a bottle, dream journal, fish bone fold, altered book (Noriko Ambe), and the world’s largest pop up book.
Asemic Writing
Asemic Writing is a wordless form of writing. The word asemic means "having no specific semantic content". I made these by applying ink on paper. I started by designing strokes. I then arranged them on a page, repeating them at intervals that felt right.
The top image shows a work that sold at Launchpad Gallery, Yokohama.
A-Z²
A-Z² is a series of 26 hand-sewn circular books. Each book consists of blank pages cut in the shape of a letter of the alphabet. I have always been attracted to the abstract nature of written language and typography. When I began this work, I wanted to make type concrete, somehow. I was also drawn to the paper’s blankness having so much potential. It’s pregnant with possibility. As I began working with bookbinding techniques, I realised I could expand this potential by making them circular books, obscuring the letter forms in the process.
This work was shown at ONCA in Brighton and as part of the Royal College of Art’s RCA Secret Exhibition.
