Ideation: Deconstructed Examples & Colleagues Presentations

I found three very different examples of deconstructed books which i found quite inspiring. I categorised them into three different types; Artistic, Destructive and Reconstructive.

Artistic

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=4uk6pa5n5p19916k1cnhm7qku0&topic=268026.0

I made this using an old star trek book! I used a wooden pumpkin for a template and cut the pages with a blade. I'm going to make another one and I'll post a tute.



destructive

http://www.flickr.com/photos/celiaka/267732068/


Deconstructed books

I'm going to the special hell for book desecrators. This work was created by finding old hard backed books that have the pages stiched in and sitting there and cutting them out with a knife so that when the pages are pulled out all that remains is the threads in vertical lines show.




reconstructive

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jadepegler/2923928103/

From 'The Demonstrables' at Wollongong City Gallery, at the completion of a one year residency.

I've been busy....meaning i've got hundreds of unread flickr mails. I will get through them all eventually, i promise!

I have also redesigned my website, which is here www.jadepegler.net/ - it's not quite finished yet, though.



What i liked were the different ways of using the materials, and the different messages attached to them because of this. I drew them out in my sketchbook, but the original links are provided with photographs.

The Artistic method was very literal; using the pages to create the shape of an apple. What i didn't like was the lack of symmetry between the topics in the book and the shape it was made into, although it looked quite good.

This is something that i picked up on when my classmate was presenting his work. Mik's first book was a fantasy novel: 'The Magicians Apprentice' and his second was a computing textbook. I took audio recordings of the entire presentation which will be available in the final hand- in.



After describing his research and ideation, he presented an interactive wipeboard which uses words from a book to 'paint' words onto a canvas. The shape made by the words was not relevant to the design. What i liked about the idea was the potential to possibly create a book in 'layers' (which i suggested) using a technique similar to 'layers' in photoshop, or perhaps overlaying an image with relevant test which can be hidden or viewed.

However, the design did not seem to relate to the book itself. I decided that i wanted my book to relate directly to the design that i made.



However, the model was fantastic considering that it was made out of paper, and it clearly expressed what he was trying to do.

His second model was a laptop made out of a computing textbook. I think that the idea was to make something with parts that you can repair yourself, without having to send it in at great expense to a computer company. Although the book was about computers, and it was a computer made out of a book, i found this too literal.



I wanted to create something abstract that didn't look very much like a book, but it had elements of a book within it and could be 'read' in a comparable way. Perhaps something more like my third 'reconstructive' example f something new made out of paper taken from books, but in a way that is more legible.