Bookmaking workshop 2023

Online Bookmaking Workshop 2023

16th Feb - 13th April

8 sessions, Thursdays 1 - 4.30pm

Join Shirley Steel and Len Metcalf in a two month long bookmaking workshop as they guide you through their process of creating handmade books. They will show you how they think about the design, layout and visualisation required to start your own book. Watch demonstrations using different types of software, from those provided by bookmakers, all the way through to those specialist professional design programs. Be shown how to make your own simple folded books, that zine makers and artists love, printed on a single sheet of paper. Learn book binding techniques such as gorgeous stab stitched books through to simple hardbound covers. This live workshop gives you time to ask lots of questions, and gain support in your own bookmaking journey.

All you need is some photographs and some enthusiasm and you will soon be making your own books. This course is designed for the complete beginner and will take you through to making your own handmade books like a true artist. Not only will you learn how to design up your first ever book and order it online, we will take you through that next step of making the design exactly how you would like it to be. Videos will be made of each of the sessions and you will be able to revisit them, download them and keep them.

For more information and to book your place on the Bookmaking Workshop visit the Len’s School website here: https://www.lensschool.com/workshops-tours/bookmaking-workshop

Len demonstrates his handmade books he makes using his own photographs.

For information on all of Len’s 2023 workshops and tours, please visit this link: https://www.lensschool.com/photography-workshops-and-tours

Photograph copyright © Len Metcalf 2023