Hi. I'm Gloria Kenyon, Public Programs Coordinator for the Smithsonian American
Art Museum and Renwick Gallery and today I'm joined by Lauren Emeritz.
Lauren what do you do? I'm a graphic designer for Abstract Orange and a
letterpress printer a Pyramid Atlantic. Lauren is with us today to teach us
how to make our own books. She designed this lovely template for this
one for July's Handi-hour and it's hinged together.
You can also make ones with collage from various magazines such as this one and
then this really nice one about the alphabet that Lauren also made that is
designed with sharpies. To make these books you'll need a glue stick, an X-acto
knife if you're going to cut out from magazines, sharpies, and you'll need eight
and a half by eleven sheet of paper cut into quarters, and then for the hinges
you'll need a piece of paper that is one inch by five and a half inches so it
lines up with your quarter sheet of paper.
So, Lauren how do we make these books? So we take our pages that we have already
designed and we put them all next to each other in the correct order.
We take our first two pages, the first spread, and we turn it over in front of us
face down so the pages are in order.
We'll take a hinge and a glue stick and put glue on the back of the hinge.
We just want to line up the hinge with the edge of the pages.
Then we fold the two pages together. You want to make sure the hinge is on the outside.
You put the hinge on the outside so that it stretches the paper, so it can make
the fold.
You can reverse the fold later.
You put it off to the side. Then grab our next two pages keeping them in the right
order. Then we do the same thing,
we hinge them together.
Then fold them the same way? Then fold it the same way, yep.
Alright so once you have all your spreads folded and hinged together we're
going to go ahead and hinge them together. The first thing we want to
do is make sure they're in the correct order and then flip them over in
kind of the same way.
I'm going to put them right next to each other.
Glue on the hinge.
You want to fold it so, yep, so the hinge is on the outside.
You can fold the other pages back if you want.
You've got your little accordion book.
Great, thanks Lauren.