Book: Dreamy Portfolio
About the Project:
More than two years ago, I shared a guide for how to make a screw post portfolio, after designing one to display my own paintings.
Since then, I’ve lived what feels like many creative lives. I’ve logged several hundred hours of bookbinding experience, and completed more than 30 such portfolios on a commission basis for other artists.
With each new portfolio, I refined my skills and picked-up new techniques. My old portfolio, once a source of pride, became annoyingly out of touch with my new standards.
Dreamy Portfolio is both a funeral for my old portfolio, and a challenge to myself to keep making each book better than the last. May it too grow to be painfully imprecise and suboptimal to me.
The entire book is clad in buttery French flocked velvet that looks like the sky on a summer afternoon.
“I would drape myself if velvet if it was socially acceptable.” -George Costanza
This improved design includes a stage on the inside of the back cover. Added height allows the pages to rest more comfortably.
The cover features a recessed window, fit with glow-in-the-dark tape that screams “open me here”.
MATERIALS
Boards - Davey’s Binder Board - 98pt
Disc magnets - 1/4x1/16” Neodymium N52
Book cloth - Prestige Laval - Bay blue
Liner papers - Canson Mi-teintes drawing paper, brown - 98lbs
1/2” Aluminum screw posts
9x12” Archival quality clear plastic sleeves
Glow-in-the-dark adhesive tape
While this is not intended to be a tutorial, you may feel inspired and/or challenged to use some of the featured techniques to make something functional and beautiful. I hope this is the case.
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