NINE: Handcraft Book

“NINE″ handcraft number book, Western Michigan University (2007)
Illustration and Book Design by Yuuya Masada.

This is a book project from a book making course.
The concept was to design a book out of a single 23″ by 35″ printout.

My goal was to make this book interactive and fun, while giving no expression of a very economical use of paper.

The following pages includes more detailed images of the final project.

Each page was patterned to be a character that dissolved into its environments.

I used bright colors because they’re more fun.

The hardest part was to cut and paste everything together!

The rest are some images from the original digital file.

I guess you can say it’s very asian-influenced artwork. I do like pop art.

Ouch! Sorry, I cut you! You blue tofu-thing.

Each page increases in the number of windows. It’s also a counting book!

Which made it all harder to come up with new drawings that show through the windows.

This dino-character inspires my later book project “FOSSIL“. Please check it out, too.

This project was really fun!
I hope to get into more book-making projects in the future.

Tags: Book Design, Handcraft, Handcraft Book, Illustration, Layout Design, Nine