Old Craft, New Tech
As with everyone new that I try with my books, I am proud of this one.
I was lying in bed, trying to put myself to sleep by hopping between a Machine Learning course in Sololearn and something in Google Garage. It was during my reading of a transcript that the idea popped into my head about this thing that I had lying around my studio.
It only took me a day to implement it into a volume set I already had. And it worked!
I checked the bookbinder’s collective on Discord, and I am very much certain that no one else in the fanbinding communities I’m in has tried this, so you can tell how excited I am. Just like the time I introduced the use of permanent and heat transfer vinyl for book covers two years ago to the collective. Everyone else was handpainting their titles! (Kudos to them—my shaky hands could never.)
Now, the tech is absolutely not new. It’s a staple in libraries and bookstores and all other types of stores for cataloging and anti-theft purposes, but its use in fanbinding is novel. I’m constantly looking for more ways to innovate my techniques, so stay tuned for those! :)
