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Zemni Book Design

Linda Mayoux blog for Open College of the Arts Book Design.

  • Portfolio
    • Artist’s Statement
    • Course Review
    • Submission contents and tutor reports
    • Zemni’s Blogs
  • 1: Beginning
    • History of book design
    • My Learning Log and blog
    • Creative Design Process
    • Assignment 1: Introducing yourself Zine
  • 2: Form and Function
    • Assignment 2: Jacket Design On the Road
    • Project 2.5 10 Book Designers
  • 3: Principles
    • Assignment 3 My Little Book of…
    • Project 3.1b Experimental Typography
    • Project 3.2 Illustrating Text
  • 4: Materials and processes
    • Assignment 4 Altered Book : The Greed Game
    • Project 4: Experimental Book: Anon.
  • 5: Production
    • Assignment 5: A is for …
  • International Design Approaches
Posted on July 24, 2016May 16, 2017 by lindamayoux

Iranian art: Miniatures

Shahname by Firdausi: miniatures of Ancient Iran

Qalamkar (traditional woodblock printing in Farsi)

Contemporary Persian Miniatures

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4: Materials and Processes Assignment and Projects

  • Assignment 4 Altered Book : The Greed Game
    • Assignment 4 : Greed Game – Iran
    • Assignment 4: Greed Game – Oman
    • Assignment 4: Greed Game Saudi Arabia
    • Assignment 4: Greed Game – United Arab Emirates
  • Project 4: Experimental Book: Anon.
    • Project 4.1: Paper/ephemera
    • Project 4.2: Creating images
    • Project 4.3: Printing
    • Project 4.4: Collating and binding

4: Materials and Processes: Anon – Research

  • 4: Materials and processes
    • History of book design
    • Artists and Handmade Books
      • Irma Boom
    • Project 4.1: Paper/ephemera
      • History of paper
      • Paper Sizes
      • Paper types
      • Papermaking: handmade
      • Papermaking: Asian traditional
    • Abstraction
    • Project 4.2: Creating images
      • Colour in Design: Communication, Culture and Meaning
      • Colour Theory: Perception and Optical Effects
      • Colour Management
      • OHP Transparencies
      • Tissue paper
      • Woodcuts
    • Project 4.4: Collating and binding
      • Bookbinding
      • Book Binding
      • Case and Bradel binding
      • Islamic bookbinding
      • Japanese bookbinding
      • Coptic Binding

4: Altered Book: Greed Game Research

  • Assignment 4 Altered Book : The Greed Game
    • Artists and Handmade Books
    • Game design
      • Petropolis: the Power Game – design process
    • Islam
    • Islamic art and calligraphy – research
      • Islamic bookbinding
      • Islamic calligraphy
      • Islamic geometric design
        • Islamic Geometric Design using Abobe Illustrator
      • Colour in Islamic Traditions
        • Black
        • Red
      • Islamic Modern Art
    • Assignment 4 : Greed Game – Iran
      • Iranian Art: Geometric
      • Iranian art: Miniatures
      • Iranian Art: Modern
        • Shirin Neshat
    • Assignment 4: Greed Game – Oman
      • Oman : Research
      • Oman Art
      • Wallpaper textures
    • Assignment 4: Greed Game Saudi Arabia
      • Saudi Arabia : Research
      • Saudi Art
      • Abstraction
      • Alluminium foil
    • Assignment 4: Greed Game – United Arab Emirates
      • United Arab Emirates : Research
      • UAE Art

Design Inspiration

  • International Design Approaches
  • History of book design
    • Artists and Handmade Books
      • Irma Boom
    • Typeface Design
    • Typographic Art
    • Typography Resources
    • Front covers
      • Robert Frank
      • Marcus Bleasdale
      • Martha Rosler
      • Lee Friedlander
  • Art Nouveau
    • The Yellow Book
  • Art Deco
  • Dada
    • El Lissitsky
    • Kurt Schwitters
    • Varvara Stepanova
  • Futurism
    • Filippo Marinetti
  • Modernism
    • Modernist Typography
    • International Swiss Style
    • Bauhaus
    • Jan Tschichold
    • Joseph Muller Brockman
    • Massimo Vignelli
    • Phil Baines
    • Eric Gill
    • Paul Rand
    • James Goggin
    • Wolfgang Weingart
  • Experimental Typography
    • Tom Muller
    • Emigre Magazine
    • Dan Eldon
    • Sara Fanelli
    • Neville Brody
    • Robert Massin
    • David Carson
    • Fanzines
      • Guerilla Girls
  • African Graphic Design
  • Islamic art and calligraphy – research
    • Islamic calligraphy
    • Islamic geometric design
    • Islamic Modern Art
    • Iranian Art: Geometric
    • Iranian art: Miniatures
    • Iranian Art: Modern
      • Shirin Neshat
    • Oman Art
    • Saudi Art
    • UAE Art
  • Japanese Design

Media experiments

  • Alluminium foil
  • Blobs
  • Card and cardboard
  • Chocolate
  • Drypoint
  • Enamel tiles
  • Emulsion
  • Emery paper
  • Islamic Geometric Design using Abobe Illustrator
  • Tissue paper
  • Wallpaper textures
  • Woodcuts
  • Zentangle
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