Book Arts Lab
What is the Book Arts Lab?
The Book Arts Lab is a makerspace in the Department of English for exploring the book arts, historical and modern print technologies, book binding traditions, and publishing.
What equipment is available for use?
With proper training, you are allowed to use the following equipment:
- Digital Layout and Design Software
- Microsoft Word
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Express
- Cricut Create Space
- Printing
- RISO MH9350 U Two-Color Duplicator
- Trimming and Processing
- x-acto knives
- paper stack guillotine
- paper plough
- corner-rounder
- Cricut Maker 3
- Binding
- Handbinding tools (needles, thread, etc.)
- Sewing Frames
- Manual Operation Swingline Saddlestitch Staplers
- Singer Heavy Duty Sewing Machine
- Fastbind Elite XT Hot Melt Perfect Binder - ELXT110
Past Projects Facilitated by the Lab:
- Artist Books
- Class Anthologies
- Chapbooks
- Creative Writing Theses
- Zines
- Notebooks
- Literary Magazines
- Minicomics
- Sketchnotes Books
- Commonplace Journals
- Other things yet to be imagined or attempted!
Interested in Collaboration?
The Book Arts Lab is available to the CSUN community to help facilitate and develop independent, group, student club, or course projects.
History
The Book Arts Lab was founded in a cardboard box in 2016 to help CSUN students explore print culture and materialities of the book. Since 2018, it has been housed in Sierra Tower 727 + 731.