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Designing the Red Rising trilogy
Warning: this post contains spoilers for the first Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown. "Then you must live for more." This set of bindings was first created as a commission for a client. I was given a couple requests to be worked into the design: have the spines match across all 3 books and have the title and color symbol on the spines. Outside of that, I had free reign. After reading the work, I always start with word association to pull out the emotions and themes that stan
Holly D'Oench
Mar 24 min read
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The Path to Fine Binding
Gold tooling plaquettes At the end of 2023 I decided to make the next year one of learning new techniques and improving the ones I...
Holly D'Oench
Dec 31, 20243 min read
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Fine Binding of Dune by Frank Herbert. Bookbinding techniques.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the plot of Dune. What is Dune about? Dune, written by Frank Herbert, is a sci-fi novel set in a...
Holly D'Oench
Jan 26, 20242 min read
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Bookbinding Inktober Days 1-10.
I'm working on a bookbinding version of Inktober. If you're not familiar with the Inktober challenge, it's a month-long drawing challenge...
Holly D'Oench
Oct 18, 20224 min read
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