What is a book?

I looked at paper folding, specifically paper folding which is used in publication and would work as legible layout for text or imagery. I wanted to produce a small foldable piece which could be used as a leaflet and then could be unfolded and used as a poster.

I looked at this book which on each page had a letter of the alphabet on yet would have a different style of showing it, such as pop up or pull out, it had thick pieces layered card to make letters pop out and change.

This other publication showed different information in new and expressive ways using colours, fold outs, pop ups and more, it was a very inventive way of displaying information and was exciting and visually pleasing. I found that this book was not bond using the usually conventional methods yet followed a couple of different ones within itself, such as a section which was a concertina style and then stitch bound and so on.

My task was to create a small publication form using only a slice of A4 paper, I wanted a simple, foldable style for my design one that had a number of sections for text and imagery yet was not over bearing. I looked at standard folds of paper to create a small leaflet or book style form, I found this simple six page right angle fold which folded down into a small rectangle and when unfolded was split into six long rectangular shapes for type and text, I wanted to recreate this so broke it down and began to fold paper into this design.

The six fold looked really simple and I was pleased with the outcome, yet having looked for how to construct this design I found that there was no real instructions so I decided to form a small instructional publication on how to create this fold.