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A gallery of Australian Overviews. At nearly 3 million square miles (7.7 square km), Australia is the world’s sixth-largest country. It contains a variety of landscapes, with tropical rainforests in the northeast, mountain ranges in the southeast, southwest and east, and desert in the center. Overviews featured here include:

Perth Waves

Canberra Parliament

Angas Inlet

Sydney Opera House

Yarra Yarra Lakes

AMAA - Threshold and Treasure Gallery, Arzignano 2022.  Photos © Simone Bossi.

Happy New Year! Thousands gathered in New York City last night to ring in 2023 as the annual Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration returned at full capacity. Manhattan, seen at center, is the most densely populated borough in NYC and is home to roughly 1.6 million people.

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Loeliger Strub - Moos Teilgebiet housing, Cham 2019. Photos © Roland Bernath.

PSA: YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN AND WILL GET THROUGH THIS

Fala - House in Fontaínhas, Porto 2019. Photos © Ricardo Loureiro.

With this binding came a number of challenges. Having overcome the gluing and folding of the beautifully printed sheets, how was I actually gong to bind them? I had never bound a concertina book before so this was going to be a first.

From the very beginning my thought was to create a false round spine which I would attach the boards to and the concertina would be attached inside it somehow. I wasn’t able to tell how the Paul Bonet version had been bound from the image I had seen but guessed this would have been done using a similar approach. 

For each of the fine bindings I do I work on a sample board beforehand to test out ideas, colours, threads etc. For this binding, given I was unsure of the binding structure too I decided I make a mini version of the binding, the size of my usual sample boards. Photos of that will appear at the end of the run of these blog posts but that is what I used to test out the binding method of the full-size book.

I started off with a half-round wooden dowel, the dowel was 15mm across but I needed to build this up to 20mm across to allow for the thickness of all the folded pages, plus a bit extra. I stuck the flat edge of the wooden dowel to the edge of a pressing board with double sided tape (so I could remove it again!) and put the board into a laying press. I cut a piece of 300gsm watercolour paper to size, glued it up and then positioned it on the round of the wooden dowel. I held it in place by covering it in a layer of silicone release paper and holding this down using a series of bulldog clips (pictured above).

This was repeated five times, and then I glued a layer of Aerolinen on top (slightly shorter than the length of the spine) followed by a piece of Zerkall.

Once dry I sanded the spine to get rid of any lumps and bumps. I had already laminated up the boards using two layers of 1mm Gemini board, with a layer of archival Kraft on the inside. Further laminations were to be glued on the outside of the boards once I had joined the spine piece to them.

I glued the Aerolinen to the boards with an equal space at the front and back to allow for the leather joints to be stuck in at a later stage. The boards were then lined on the outside with a layer of card to the same thickness as the Aerolinen.

The end of the false spine was “capped” with a piece of Zerkall cut to the same shape.

Ben Whishaw Ressources RPG