About the video: Materiality of the Book
Overview
“One of the course's objectives is to help you discover great creative possibilities in the book object and in playing with paper. In this lesson, you'll see some ways to incorporate the medium for narrative purposes.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Materiality of the Book, which is part of the Domestika online course: Papercraft Specialization: Techniques for Three-Dimensional Designs. Explore artistic papercraft by creating three-dimensional compositions using cutting, assembling, and modeling techniques with paper and cardboard..
Partial transcription of the video
“Materiality of the Book In this lesson, we'll talk about the materiality of books. We'll go over various layouts and look at books that have found amazing ways to capitalize on their material features and we'll consider and begin exploring the world of books to find new ways to tell stories and new ways to read. Using book materiality as an aspect of storytelling and meaning often calls for the involvement of the reader's spatial and physical dimensions to modify reading practices. Usually, we don't pay much attention to the material features of a book. Instead we build a relationship with ...”
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Course summary for: Papercraft Specialization: Techniques for Three-Dimensional Designs
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Children's Illustration, Decoration, DIY, Fine Arts, Paper Craft, Storytelling

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