OUGD404 Brief 2 - Task 1 What is a Book?

What is a book?

(taught lesson)

We got in groups in this session and were asked several questions
to answer.

What is a book?
A book can be anything arguably, it can be a..

Collection of pages
- What are pages?? A context that is used to communicate
so in response to a collection of pages it does not necessarily need to
be a page.

This is because a book is a personal interpretation.

Articulation
- to pass on information
-putting something in a book
-words and how it is written

Collection of visual stimuli
-It doesn't necessarily need to be words
what is a basic form of collection?
-A group - A collection of something
It could be a website etc.

This question really made me think about the actual term book and what
it means to be a book does it need to be physical to be a book? I always
assumed so but it is apparent a book doesn't need to be physical to exsist
this is because the term book is a collection and a collection can be anything.

What is the purpose of a book?

• Inform
• Educate
• Entertain
• Inspire
• Communicate
• To convince
• To evolve
• To create controversy
• Illusion of intelligence
• The truth
• To escape
• To exsist forever there isn way of it not existing even if it is removed, 

someone somewhere will remember it.

A book can have many purposes it is unto both the author and reader
to determine what exact purpose they have.

How is a collection organised?

• Paragraphs
• Chronological order
• Sequence
• To tell a story
• Choice
• Thermatically

it really is up to the person who writes or designs the book to order

and organise a book there a several ways of organising books for

example...

Another more literally sense of how you can organise a book..

• Stitching 
• folded 
• glued
• bound
• stapled
• weld
• treasury tags
• zip ties/acro binding clips
• paper clips
• spiral bound

A book can be bound creatively as well as organised.

What is your groups favourite book? and its purpose?

• Dominoes menu - Excites
• Wreck this journal - Entertains
• Beatrix potter collections - Nostalgic and aesthetically pleasing
• A to Z visual ideas - Informs
• Auction buyers guides - Informs
• Ryan Gosling - Colour me good - Interactive/Entertains