Small-Scale Test Run
(Pencil on paper)
Drawing patterns for book designs is a lot like drawing architectural plans…
…aside from the fact that buildings don’t fold. It sure would be neat if they did.*
(Videogames and websites are the best representations of folding architectural spaces and, not surprisingly, the best storytelling media we have.)
I like books a lot, but I only bind them for myself and only when I need a new journal. Thus: I am not spectacularly good at binding. I’m okay with that. Because I always try new things without mastering the old things, I have to do small versions of the new things to make sure I’m not about to burn through 100s of dollars worth of leather.
* fairly certain this was a sentence that came up during brainstorming for CONTROL over at Remedy, and when Danielewski wrote House of Leaves, and when the labyrinth section of Silent Hill 2 was designed and ad infinitum….