Book arts final exhibit!

niiicethings:

Come to the opening night and see our final exhibit for Book arts and design at LCC!

Guests need to either print off a copy or show on their phone to gain entry

Its the final show for us!

Interim show

Last week at university we have had our first exhibition of the year on display.

“The Book in Context is an exhibition of bookworks created by the third year London College of Communication undergraduates on the BA (Hons) Book Arts & Design programme.

These bookworks are a demonstration of how our traditional preconceptions of the Book can be challenged through exploration and interrogation of the Book’s form.

As Book Arts & Design is an interdisciplinary subject, the student’s work on display incorporates fine art, graphic design and independent publishing, together with a drawing of inspiration from historical and contextual sources. Consequently, the bookworks are self-authored projects, a communicating and packaging of ideas tailored to the student’s chosen theme - a demonstration of books as verbal and narrative exploration, as documents, as a visual form and books as conceptual spaces.

As a result, The Book in Context exhibition challenges how we, the audience, are being encouraged to think about the way information is consumed, how reading patterns and styles are evolving and how the Book is responding to the digital age.

However, the Book as a printed artefact is still one to behold and this exhibition is recognition of the wonderful fluidity and possibilities within the Book; how it stretches our imagination and continues to adapt to our ever-changing world.

‘A book is a highly complex organisation of material and conceptual elements’ (Drucker, J. 2004. The Century of Artists’ Books)”

Text from the interim show blog.
All photos from my phone. 

(Source: sky-n.blogspot.com)

Check out my project :)

interimshow:

Sky Nash 
‘Aprons, Cooking, Sports and Villains.’

“Collecting imagery found and scanned from children’s literature, both classic and contemporary, this project aims to directly compare the ratio and style of imagery of males to females in four distinct categories: Aprons, Cooking, Sports and Villains.
 
One half of each book is dedicated to males found in one of the scenarios and the other half for females in the same scenario.  The physical size of each section, ratio of males to females, and depiction of each gender in these activities makes for a fascinating observation.
This project shows how there is a discrepancy of real life representations of males and females found in children’s literature. It shows that old-fashioned notions still exist even though society has changed. In Apron we find that there are a lot more females wearing aprons as opposed to men. Cooking continues this trend, depicting more women cooking compared to men. With Sports we find that the variety of sports undertaken by men is far wider than that of woman. Furthermore, the book Villains demonstrates the oddest find, as it is the only book to have a relatively even number of males to females within that role.”

Artists’ books on tour

I’m still really suprised about this but in june I found out that I was one of the winners in the competition “Artists’ Books on Tour.” A total 925 projects were submitted to this competition and of those 50 were chosen and I was one of those 50.


“In order to bring visibility to contemporary developments in the field of artists’ books, we offer artists a platform to share their work within a unique all-European competition among book artists for the first time ever. We therefore invite artists to hand in their recent or planned art projects in the field: submissions will be accepted as completed physical or digital book objects or in the form of conceptual designs for projected but yet-unrealized book works. Outstanding works will be awarded a grant given by an international jury.”
Quote from the ABOT website. 

(Source: sky-n.blogspot.com)

readingroomlcc:

Sky Nash

“Always ask questions”

Check my work out in the reading room :)

This is a sneaky look at the book I have made for The Piracy Project.

“Andrea Francke & AND Publishing would like to invite you to  contribute to The Piracy Project, an international publishing and  exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical  implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. The  project includes a series of talks and a five-day production workshop  held at the Byam Shaw Library. The submitted works will then tour to  international venues in 2011.” Taken from the website here.

book made with photos using my lensbaby

life drawing

I love finding paper, I did some tidying of my paper stack the other day, and found this old wallpaper.

here aswell

little heart book, also on etsy http://www.etsy.com/listing/66401753/heart-book

a heart shaped

A valentines themed book. This is the first of two designs around the theme, that I have been experimenting with.

also here http://sky-n.blogspot.com/2011/01/heart-shaped.html