Book Binding

Recently, in order to make illustration book for Airside project, so i started to learn book biding by myself.

I found it so fun to bind book by my own. Its so excited to see each page be bound and look exactly like a book sold at store! :)  

Before i did book binding, I thought it maybe difficult to bind books by myself. I kept going to library checked and analysed those books bound by hard cardboard, and found that maybe it wasn't that hard, so I bought some material from stationary and begin my first try.

This is the first book I bound. Actually I made this book cover second time, because the first one, i didn't leave much space between the cardboard, so when i covered my book, the cover became smaller and didn't fit well, so second time, i left enough space between each cardboard, and its succeed! :)

This is the first cover i made. As you can see the right hand side pic, the space between red arrows is not enough, so when folding, the cover become smaller than my book.

Luckily, at the tutorial with Darren, he showed me an illustrion book, the way it binds is exactly what i want to bind my book, so i analysed it a bit, and took some photos.

Red arrow shows the space i shoud leave between each cardboard.

one of my story reminded darren of this illustration book.

this is another book i observed before doing book binding

leaving space is an important point for me when doing book binding.

Red arrow: important GAP!

Book binding for my second stroy book. Succeeded in one time. :)