To make a book

Lecture by Ricky Ricardo

5 October 2015
why make a book?
why make a book?
For dissemination of ideas and debate

To express ideas and opinions and to situate your work within

a personal worldview

For reflection: allowing for a deeper understanding of the work

To ‘make sense’ of your work

“My father, a paid-up curmudgeon and relentless reader, used to grumble
that no-one should write a book unless they had something – by which he
meant something new – to say. My mother, a woman of letters, would add
sotto voce, ‘and they can say it well.’ Having something to say and saying it
well remain, for me, the signal criteria.”

– Elizabeth Farrelly in Architecture Australia, 2014

A 1521 Italian language
edition of De architectura by
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, 15BC.
Towards an Architecture,
Le Corbusier, 1923.
Archigram Paper 01 – A
Statement, 1961.
Delirious New York,
‘Retroactive Manifesto for
Manhattan’, Rem Koolhaas,
The Monacelli Press, 1978.
“S,M,L,XL is deliberately seamless
about this, trying to present an
absolute equivalence between unbuilt
and built, because in a way I think
it’s a moot point. Of course, it can
be very inspiring to build things. But
part of the goal of the book was to
explore architecture that didn’t come
to fruition. I was also interested in
showing the implications of failure –
showing both the calculations and the
miscalculations of projects.”

– Rem Koolhaas
Sheila Hicks: Weaving as
Metaphor, 2006.
Designer: Irma Boom
structure
 Parts of a book
COVER
– Title
– Author
– Publisher

FRONT MATTER
– Title page (with above info)
– Colophon or Imprint page: publishing infor-
mation (ISBN, copyright info, printer’s info etc)
– Contents page
– Foreword / dedication / introduction

MAIN BODY
Main body of the book including images
and text
– Chapter pages

END MATTER
May contain appendix, bibliography
and/or glossary
Making Books  Book Anatomy

gutter: the center or fold

case cover:
cloth, paper or
printed paper
that is glued to
spine
the outside of the
book / usually it
front cover is the same image
as the dust jacket

page: one side

spread:
two pages side by side
spine

back flap front flap

back cover front cover
(author info) (book synopsis)

dust jacket: folds around book end paper:

can be plain, colored or printed / at the beginning
and end of the book / used to hold the pages in the book

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 01
NEO-NATURES The evolution of ‘new natures’ which evolve from the synthesis
of the living and the artificial, enabling the hyper-experience
Neo-Natures of nature, both real and virtual.
Image: Jorinde Voigt, 2007.
 Organising content
NARRATION
– Introduction, body and conclusion
– Pull quotes to highlight important points
– Chapters with chapter dividers

USING THE SPREAD

Using the double spage spread (DPS) to bring
images together that help explain each other
(ie. an image from your image bank with your
own drawing)

VISUAL HIERARCHY
Image size to communicate importance
of image

DEVELOP A CONSISTENT APPROACH

TO CONTENT
Eg. You may introduce each chapter with three
consecutive DPS images, or each chapter with
a drawing inverted onto a black DPS spread
with a relevant quote.
 layout
& using grids
Consistency is essential
 Typography

Consistency is essential Grammar

Layout
 Tools for consistency
– Grid
– Baseline Grid
– Rulers
– Master Pages
– Paste in Place (Shift/Alt/Command/V)
– Charater & Paragraph Styles
I swear I use no art at all, Joost Grootens, 2011
Mongrel Rapture,
URO Media, 2015
Sulki & Min
Yusef Dennis
Student Portfolio,
Architectural Association
Inset Spacing: text boxes Distribute Spacing: images
 fonts
& typesetting
 “SOMETIMES I GET
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–KANYE WEST
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Mono (Apercu Mono)

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leading
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TEXT SIZE
For body text between 8 and 12 pt
Captions generally smaller ie. 6 – 8 pt
Pull quotes larger than 14 pt

LEADING
10 to 15% greater than font size

COLUMN WIDTH
Justified columns: 12 – 15 words per line (approx)
Unjustified columns: 8 – 15 words per line (approx)
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title font

Sofia Clausse
proof

reading
before
exporting 300 +
IF YOUR BOOK HAS FULL BLEED IMAGES EXPORT
WITH CROP MARKS
5mm bleed line
colour profiles
The general rule in book publishing is to
convert all images to CMYK. You can
do this in Photoshop, it does flatten
colour so you may want to increase the
saturation to compensate.

B&W drawings should be greyscale

to avoid any phantom colour coming
through.
paper & binding
 Binding
binding
Thermal binding
thermal binding
Two up saddle stitch
two up saddleFrench
stitchfolding
french Japanese
folding book binding
japanese book binding
Stitched
stitched
*Your chosen binding will affect how wide your
gutter needs to be
TO AVOID:
TO AVOID:
plastic covers
Plastic covers
comb binding
Comb binding
spiral binding
Spiral binding
(unless relevant to your proposal)
unless relevant to your proposal
 Paper
Interior pages typically 90 to 180 gsm
(unless relevant to your enquiry)
Cover 300 gsm +
Coated / uncoated stock

TO AVOID:
Standard office paper
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 Assignment 03
Make a bound book that brings together your work
over the semester that communicates your broader
interests, techniques, tools etc.

This document defines your position, clearly and

without ornament.

– Include cover, title, introduction, chapters

– Choose format, layout, fonts, cover, title consistent
with your interests / thread of enquiry
– Include all work from semester, cosider how you
organise this (it need not be linear)
– Choose a format that is respectful of your
drawings, ie. not too small.

Due in class next week, 15 October.