Final Major Project

Litho printed Posters!

Bookbinding process after embossing the typography with the use of risograph, golden powder and the heating machine. I used the japanese binding method to give the book  a hand made and intimate quality. 

The book which I created as a representation of a poem book gift from Nazim to Piraye.

Final Embossings!

Another video of the folding process.

From my camera:)

The folding process!

Development - The folding process which took like 15-20 minutes with this machine. The photographs are taken by Kyun, in LCC (except the last one). Apparently, I was very happy with the result:)

Development - Lithography Print Proces! After mixing the ink, we prepared the machine with Tony from LCC, which took a long time:) We had to check the prints ones in a while, to see if everything is alright. For examples, the firsts prints were not working well because of the high amount of the ink. He was such a good teacher. Even though I was exhausted, I enjoyed the process. It was incredible how fast the printing happened on a big amount of paper.  We would not be able to use this machine if I needed less than 100 prints.

I did a 50x70 cm folded poster with the lithography print to give people during the show, something descriptive about my project that also something to keep as a souvenir. The first image is the back side , and the second image is the front page of the poster. The others are separate interpretations

Development - Ink Drawing tests for the Poem 5. In one of the illustrations I used a lot of inks, so ruined the way it looked before... In the end, I choose the 3rd image, which I more elegant than the others.

Development - Ink Drawing Tests for the Poem 4, in which the poet imagines his lover and himself as children running, holding hands... Photoshop helped me a lot in editing some of the unwanted errors in my drawings.

Development - Tests for the Poem 3, in which the half of the apple symbolises the beloved and the other halves the world, the people and the poet himself... I wanted to see how the black ink works, too. It looks good, but I preferred the red one. In the black compositions, there are a lot of elements, which makes it harder to emphasize on the apples, which are the main subjects of the illustration. This is why I preferred the most simple one for the outcome.

A very good reference about the loss of intimacy in the modern life by Martin Jacques.

Development - Ink Drawing tests for the Poem 2. The last one is used in the outcome which has a more mature look. And more related with the embossing print, because of the shapes above and below the eye.

In some of them i overused the ink, I think. For me, the ones with less ink are better. And the colour red fits more within my project because it symbolyses the affection and intense emotions. 

The ink illustrations have the intention of conveying the emotions and the intimacy in the verses through the enthusiastic flow of the red colour dissolving in water.