So for my end of year self-directed project I decided to make a series of 7 books that documented, in detail, my entire life for a week. I spent the whole week writing down what I ate & drank, how much I spent & on what, how many pisses I took, how many cigarettes I had, what time I woke up, got up & went to bed, how far I walked in miles and how many footsteps I took in the day (measured by means of a pedometer). I also shot 1 roll of different 35mm film each day to provide visual evidence of my activities.
Each 16 page book is just smaller than A5, is printed on 80gsm ice white stock with a 350gsm ice white cover and is hand-made using a perfect binding technique.
Photos taken with an Olympus XA3
Films:
Sat - Kodak Ektar 100
Sun - Kodak Royal Supra 200
Mon - Kodak Elite Chrome 100
Tues - Fujifilm Pro 400H
Wed - Kodak Portra NC 160
Thurs - Kodak Tri-X 400
Fri - Fujifilm Pro 800Z
Wow, nice idea! And i love the little books, i'd love to take a quick through your life x)
06-03-2010, 04:34 PM
Scrib
Idea ive seen before but the design work and minimalism used tgroughout is very well done:) Just wish it was better quality paper :(
06-03-2010, 05:05 PM
Eleventee
Yeah the idea isn't anything particularly ground-breaking, my main sources of inspiration were Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones (as gay as that sounds). The inner paper is nice quality it's just light weight so you can see through it a bit. The tests I did on thicker stocks (120gsm and 160gsm) were too weighty and didn't cope with the glue very well, they were fragile at the spine and with the 160gsm paper a few pages actually popped... I should have done more extensive studies though as I also don't like how the pages bleed through, it's messy.
