Final Major Project @fmp-belmin - Tumblr Blog

Litho printed Posters!

Bookbinding process after embossing the typography with the use of risograph, golden powder and the heating machine. I used the japanese binding method to give the book a hand made and intimate quality.

The book which I created as a representation of a poem book gift from Nazim to Piraye.

Final Embossings!

Another video of the folding process.

From my camera:)

The folding process!

Development - The folding process which took like 15-20 minutes with this machine. The photographs are taken by Kyun, in LCC (except the last one). Apparently, I was very happy with the result:)

Development - Lithography Print Proces! After mixing the ink, we prepared the machine with Tony from LCC, which took a long time:) We had to check the prints ones in a while, to see if everything is alright. For examples, the firsts prints were not working well because of the high amount of the ink. He was such a good teacher. Even though I was exhausted, I enjoyed the process. It was incredible how fast the printing happened on a big amount of paper. We would not be able to use this machine if I needed less than 100 prints.

I did a 50x70 cm folded poster with the lithography print to give people during the show, something descriptive about my project that also something to keep as a souvenir. The first image is the back side , and the second image is the front page of the poster. The others are separate interpretations

Development - Ink Drawing tests for the Poem 5. In one of the illustrations I used a lot of inks, so ruined the way it looked before... In the end, I choose the 3rd image, which I more elegant than the others.

Development - Ink Drawing Tests for the Poem 4, in which the poet imagines his lover and himself as children running, holding hands... Photoshop helped me a lot in editing some of the unwanted errors in my drawings.

Development - Tests for the Poem 3, in which the half of the apple symbolises the beloved and the other halves the world, the people and the poet himself... I wanted to see how the black ink works, too. It looks good, but I preferred the red one. In the black compositions, there are a lot of elements, which makes it harder to emphasize on the apples, which are the main subjects of the illustration. This is why I preferred the most simple one for the outcome.

Martin Jacques: A selfish, market-driven society with deteriorating parent-child relationships is eroding our very humanity.

A very good reference about the loss of intimacy in the modern life by Martin Jacques.

#british identity and society #uk news

Development - Ink Drawing tests for the Poem 2. The last one is used in the outcome which has a more mature look. And more related with the embossing print, because of the shapes above and below the eye.

Development - Ink Drawing tests for Poem 1.

In some of them i overused the ink, I think. For me, the ones with less ink are better. And the colour red fits more within my project because it symbolyses the affection and intense emotions.

Why embossing and Ink drawing techniques?

After a lot test of ink drawing, I chose 5, which had the strongest quality to visualises Nazim Hikmet’s poems. They have the same composition with the embossing prints. I visualised the same poems in different techniques because they both have different duties. The blind embossings illustrate the poems with the use of the white paper that symbolises his pure and intimate feelings with the depth that occurs on the paper. While the touchable quality of the paper with the raised curvy forms and the patterns that the plate create on different parts of the print are intimate and maybe friendly, the same features create as well a distance with the audience. The reason why I want there to be a distance is because of the fact that Nazim Hikmet wrote the poems in prison to his beloved, Piraye. It was impossible for him to express his deep and intense emotions to her, in real life, so he wrote these poems, from far away... Even though they were not together, the poems are very intimate. His words are very bitter and honest. As honest as the white embossed paper and the transparent effect that the ink creates while dissolving in the water. The duty of the ink drawings is to show the transparent intimacy of feelings that were expressed in the poet’s poetry. They put together with the poems in a book, that will be a representation of a gift of Nazim to Piraye: a poem book with his 5 poems that were written like a diary in 1945.

Here are the chosen ink drawings, which I posted separately before with the poems:

The ink illustrations have the intention of conveying the emotions and the intimacy in the verses through the enthusiastic flow of the red colour dissolving in water.

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

Final Major Project