Rosemary Rae: Festival Flag Book

Workshop Description

Gather found type, numerals, tickets and random images! This book is an easy and fun flag book structure mounted between two hard covers. Paint the covers or cover with decorative paper. Use found typography to create a paper festival and add a bit of collage, stars, and miscellaneous ephemera and create a dynamic structure full of type and image.

Materials/Equipment to be Provided by Students

• 2 sheets of book board (measures approximately 6¾” x 6¾”)
• 2 sheets of cover-weight paper to paint or decorative paper for endpapers (measures approximately 6¼” x 6¼”)
• Decorative paper for accordion folded hinge (approximately 14″ x 6.5″; cover weight)
• 20 flaps of paper for flags (cover weight), 5¼” x 1¼”
• Self-healing mat (small) and X-Acto knife
• Scissors (optional)
• Bonefolder
• Miscellaneous collage material

See Materials Glossary for definitions and images

Materials/Equipment to be Provided by Instructor

• 2 sheets of cover-weight paper to paint (11″ x 8.5″ sheets of paper will be cut down to size; cover paper measures approximately 8″ x 8″)
• Acrylic paint in various colors, brushes
• X-Acto knife and metal ruler/straight edge
• Double-stick tape
• PVA glue
• Scrap paper (to cover work surface when painting)
• Scrap or decorative embellishments, rubber stamps
• Phrases or words cut out of posters, magazines, books
• Star paper punch
• Included in a .pdf that Rosemary will send to students before the workshop: two sheets of text/clip art to print, cut out, and use. Please print on cover weight paper.

Instructor Biography

Rosemary Rae is a creative director/designer, artist, and design educator living in San Diego, California. A graduate of Moore College of Art & Design and Vermont College of Fine Arts, she currently works as a graphic designer. In addition to designing her unique line of letterpress greeting cards, she also creates collages and artist books that have been featured in many juried exhibitions.

Instagram: @rosemarydesign