| Last weekend my wife and I attended a class at the University of Utah’s Book Arts Studio on how to make presentation boxes. It was a class called “Boxing It Up” by Chris McAfee.
The goal of the class was to teach you how to make a presentation box, or a box to store a book or some other collectable. We were suppose to bring an object that we would want to save/store/preserve. Anyway, we missed that instruction. When we arrived, we were shown the process of designing the box. We were then told to measure our objects and plan our boxes. Great! I didn’t bring anything. Good thing I always carry my Leatherman multi-purpose tool and Maglite. These became my objects to build my box around. You can find instructions on how to build a Clamshell Box from Cornell. Some of the book cloth that we had to choose from didn’t move me at the time, so I selected the black. Mistake! The black is not forgiving at all on any glue goobers. The black cloth can also take on a shine if you are not careful in working the folds with your bone folder. This design uses quite a bit of book board. The box is quite heavy. Over all, I enjoyed the class. I would have liked a little more discussion on the where’s, why’s and how’s of designing a box. The class was a little too unstructured for my taste. |
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