A Little Book To Be Taken Out Always, Just In Case

A LITTLE BOOK TO BE TAKEN OUT ALWAYS, JUST IN CASE
Author Unknown

Product Description: A landscape, miniature book. The paper is a high gsm with a baby pink colouring. Each page contains inkjet printed type, the initial page containing the title, and the interior pages containing ‘Your number’ on the left-hand side, and ‘My number’ on the right. The type has been separate by a perforated edge. Presumably the owners of the book will write their own number prior to ripping it out and giving to another body. A thick strip of navy card surrounds the back and encases the spine of the book, thus adding structure.
Publication Details: 3 cm by 10 cm, High gsm paper encased in navy card.

A Love Obeah

A LOVE OBEAH

Layla

Product Description: A concertina book, bound with a continuous length of string. This string can be tied around the books exterior. The cover has been constructed using layered palm leaves. Each page has been scored to leave a designated spine, thus allowing the book to stand up and support itself.

The narrative follows the construction of a potion, although the reader is initially led to believe it is a simple food recipe. Miniature, hand rendered type is accompanied by various bags of ephemera. Within these bags are various spices and nuts, progressing into a needle, a feather and a snippet of genuine hair. The creepy narrative and sealed items, juxtapose the dainty, hand rendered type and blank space.

Publication Details: Produced for a unit from BA (Hons) Illustration (University of Portsmouth), Concertina book, Cartridge paper. 

“A Love Obeah” was created by University of Portsmouth alumni, Layla Brook.  

Little Box Of Phobias

Little Box Of Phobias
Description: A miniature Phobia book, contained within a matchbox along with a matchstick doll. It has ten small books inside covering ten phobias through hidden imagery; the fear of heights, open spaces, people, spiders, clowns, the dark, ghosts, death, dolls and fire.

Publication information: 2009, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Laser print, Photocopy. Edition 1 of 20

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Lock and Key

LOCK AND KEY
Carolyn Stevenson , alumni of the School of Art, Design and Media

Description: This hard back concertina book is made from card. It is a 11cm x 7.5cm portrait 8 page artist book. This is a pictorial narrative of various types of key and locks.
Publication infomation: 2004, Portsmouth, UK, Tabbed, Laserprint, Edition No 1 of 10

Lusus Naturae

Lusus Naturae
Wendy Mulford, Liz Rideal

Description: Soft back artists' book: Length 200mm, Width 290mm, Depth 10mm. A 20 page stitched book on cream paper with a dark brown card cover. One of a set of eight new poems published by Circle press.
Publication information: 1990, London, UK, Circle Press , Stitched, Lithography and hand tinted by the artist, Edition No 36 of 120

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Lost, Found, Stolen, Bought

LOST, FOUND, STOLEN, BOUGHT

Helen Blackwell, alumni of the School of Art, Design and Media

Description Information: The 4 pages of this book are hand made glass with silkscreen images. The cover is sewn linen. The book is 100mm square.
Publication Details: 2007, Portsmouth, UK, Screen print, No 1 of 5, 

Land

LAND
Rachel and Malcolm Gibson

Description Information: This book is stitched with flax cord and uses 300gsm Somerset paper. It measures 280mm in length and 295mm in width. It comprises of 24 pages. The artists signatures are screen printed onto Lokta paper from Nepal.
Publication Information: 1996, Real Art Studios, Cumbria, UK, Stitched with flax cord, Screen print, Photo etching, soft ground etch, collage, embossing, litho, woodcut, intaglio, serigraphy, No 19 of 60.

La Lecon

LA LECON
Robert Coleman

Description Information: Folded card cover with concertina book enclosed. 5 pages 10.5 cm width x 8cm height
Publication Information: 1997, Portsmouth, UK, Glued, Photocopy, No 4 of 5.

Life, A

A LIFE
Cheryl Ferguson, alumni of the School of Art, Design and Media

Description: A hand stitched and tabbed 10 page book using various weights of card, hand made paper and other materials. Soft back artists' book: Length 180mm, Width 150mm, Depth 60mm.
This book, with its use of hand sewing, fabric and hand produced type is a celebration of insects and their importance to us. Beautiful illustrations made from paper, beads, fabric, labels and hand stitching sit next to hand produced typography spelling out interesting and exciting facts about insects.
Publication Information: 2004, Portsmouth UK, Hand stitched and tabbed, Screen print, letraset, Edition 1,