Kim Ku / Inverted Love

Logging (possibly dumb) ideas

The idea log continues a week into the new year! I think I should scale down how often I make them or else I’ll burn out by the 3rd month… but for now, I’m clocking in an idea a morning. Check out the slideshow of what I did today:

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All my mockups have started on sheets of paper like this. Sized about 3 x 4.5 inches.

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I decide I want to make a book with rounded edges... but I haven't thought of what to put in it.

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I write down ideas but I go with a skeleton only because i can make one of the sections look like a skull. Let's see if that was a poor decision.

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I clean up the drawing a tiny bit and push out the negative space.

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The negative space makes me think the skeleton is buried so it makes me think I can put a narrative sequence of people burying him on the other side.

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A closeup of my drawings. They're simple and done just to see if the idea is working. I do really think I'm going to give them top hats though.

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The final mini mockup I always make when I'm designing books. The right page got accidentally ripped off.

I kind of think of these as a game. As a kid, I drew lots of random dots on pieces of paper and challenged myself to make drawings using all of them. It became more of an exercise of making the best of the circumstances/materials you have, which I realize I’m still trying to do with this book idea project.

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