What Is A Book?

My work on creating a book compiling the interviews  carried out for my MA is trundling along and pretty much finished for now. My hand in date for this section of work is Tuesday so I'm going to be making my last mock up tonight before working all day tomorrow and getting everything lined up and organised on my allocated wall area by 11 Tuesday morning.

Click this link to see the online version.

A Book Is A Book

Since September I have been studying on an MA in Graphic Design and been looking at the question of 'What Is A Book'. The idea is that by looking closely at the publishing industry and the way that is changing due to increased readership, the role of e-books and other digital media and also publishings rich history I will have a much better understanding of how to work in the publishing Industry.

After a lot of research into what various people (so far the interviewees include several design students, an english teacher, an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, some writers and myself) think about what makes a book a book I have started to gather all the info together and am now in the process of documenting my findings.

The layout of my book (and also online pdf) will have a question per double page spread, with the initial question and interviewees response on the recto page and my response, plus the aim of the question on the verso.