As well as lining up the letters, I made sure the edges of corresponding letters also lined up by keeping the ruler in the same position and cutting them simultaneously.

I drew a plain bowl of noodles with an egg on top because this felt reasonably detailed as a paper cutting, but still had decorative elements that formed a pattern to tie in everything together.

I realise now that it was wrong to choose foamboard for my shapes since although it had smooth and crisp edges, the edges also needed to be hard. It took a humongous effort with my plastic ruler to get this level of definition. I would use thicker card for the shapes if I were to re-attempt this task.

For the crisp and sharp edges, I used a craft knife to cut both the card and the foamboard.

To achieve this balance, I used masking tape and string for the equidistant post cards. I started off with the postcards in the centre and worked from there.

I used layout paper first to find the centre of the piece of paper and for the placement of the square.

It turns out the brief want a book made from perfect binding, which only involves glue application along the bunches of pages, before being inserted into the folded cover. I mistook it as a book that needed to be bound perfectly. The binding used here is coptic binding, which one of my peers taught me how to do.

Cutting at a 45 degree angle was extremely difficult and I was informed that I cut it an angle a lot smaller than 45 degrees, which in turn made it even harder for me. I am proud of how the bottom edge turned out and I believe bevelling definitely requires more practice if I wish to window mount my work in the future.

For the second project, I will be learning and practicing old school illustration skills. My experience in this area is minimal so I am excited to try all these tasks.

This was my first time book binding and I learnt very quickly how important it was to make sure a sharp craft knife blade was being used, especially when trimming the page creep. I had difficulty using a stapler for the saddle stitches, so I used thread instead.