Folio Society 2015: The Folio Collection of Ghost Stories

"Each year entrants are asked to submit three illustrations [if you are to the enter the competition. I did not enter the competition and therefore I only had to produce two illustrations and a binding design for my university course] and a binding design for a book chosen by The Folio Society." 

‘The Upper Berth’ by F. Marion Crawford

‘A Tale of an Empty House’ by E. F. Benson

Back-Spine-Front Binding Design
(Text positioning, not actual typography)

Back-Spine-Front Binding Design with print details

 

Water patterns for The Upper Berth

Sand Patterns for A Tale of an Empty House

Pattern on the left used in the cover design for the collection

Mediums Used: Sharpie for the patterns; paint for the textures and Photoshop to construct the images together. 

Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside!

Choosing the location of the beach, the theatre or the zoo we were tasked with making a 10 panel [including the front and back cover] concertina book from the characters we have previously developed from ink  "squiggles".

We were allowed to use any mediums, work on any surfaces, as long as it had the correct number of panels, they were all 10x10cm and the whole book stood up when open.

I based mine at the beach and went for the motion that over the period of panels it would have a separate narrative for each panel, but would also have an overall narrative across the book. This was also illustrated using a wave motion, where on the first page the wave started in the lowest corner, progressively rose so that two pages were fully underwater scenes, and then decreased back down again, over the 8 panels. 

I ended up working on cardboard and painted the illustrations using gouache.

Front cover onwards...

...to back cover

the "wave" rising over the panels

...and decreasing again

the concertina effect

I used two lengths of string from the front cover all the way along the back of each panel, to the back cover, top and bottom so they were all secure, and would also stand up when open.