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  11th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest Call for Entries Poster

  Special Collections and Fleet Library

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  11th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest Opening Reception Poster

  Special Collections and Fleet Library

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  Orlando Darling

  Willow Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Orlando Darling combines the texts of Orlando by Virginia Woolf and Candy Darling by Candy Darling. This project explores gender and intimacy through a system that positions type and images in relation to their perceived femininity versus masculinity and their proximity to the author. By merging these texts, I investigate the idea of change as central to one's trans identity. Both Orlando and Candy are transgender, but this aspect does not define their identities. They are poets, movie stars, singers, artists, etc., but they are never defined by their trans identity. The typesetting reflects this idea of change and contrasts Orlando as a work of fantasy with Candy Darling as a gritty biography. The text systems are arranged according to the intimacy of the writing with respect to the author. Candy Darling, who writes in the style of journal entries, moves between extremes. When her writing is deeply personal, the text shifts toward the center of the book. Conversely, when she presents fabricated stories, the text moves to the edges of the pages, forcing the reader to engage with the content as something external. As Orlando is a work of fiction, it cannot be as personal and remains centered on the spreads, occasionally flowing back and forth as the characters Woolf creates fleetingly reveal aspects of her own life.

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  Consideration for the Sun

  Roxy Bridges, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  LIBRARIAN'S CHOICE PURCHASE PRIZE | $250 A collection of Cyanotypes for a full lunar cycle. Place based recordings of me in a single moment in time. A look at temporality through the blue of faded past and distance. Deep consideration for the sun, defined by our relation to the moon. A way to ground myself in natural cycles.

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  Why Weep?

  Mia Kei Cheng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  I was wondering why weeping willows droop down when they seem to have all the space above to reach upwards. Their branches descending against the norm of trees seeking the sun. While the tree's main growth aims upward, its branches sway downward, prompting my curiosity. Could it be an evolutionary adaptation for seed dispersal or enhanced endurance of winds I wondered. Perhaps it aids in capturing more sunlight or nutrients? However, my research unveiled a fascinating truth - it was a genetic mutation that humans propagated to live on just because they liked how it looked! This paradox of nature, both eerie and enchanting, inspired me to create this poem. The shape of the book is inspired by the wispy tendrils of willow trees and the branch in the spine of the book is a willow tree branch that I found lying on the ground near the willow tree I was observing over the course of a month.

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  Drawings from Japan

  Lauren Davis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Drawings from Japan is an illustrated travelogue from my time bikepacking through Japan and documenting my adventures. Over the course of two months there I kind people, great food, large cities, and beautiful countrysides. The drawings catalogue how absorbed I was in the environment and how a bike makes me feel even more connected to it.

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  One Week Very Sleepy

  Miles De La Torre, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  For a process-based assignment, I chose to explore the process of collecting and documentation. During the course of one week, I collected ephemera, photos, and writing. The idea of documentation that serves a purpose beyond strictly a historical document inspired this book. I wanted to focus on the spaces I visited and the interactions with people I had.

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  The Researcher

  Esther Du, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The Researcher is the second chapter of Esther's dystopian fantasy graphic novel series, where survivors walk on water while everything else sinks irreversibly to the deep sea. Through multimedia elements like illustrations, text, and flip animation, it follows Thea, a scholar recreating artifacts from a lost civilization, reflecting humanity's longing for the past and its fragile grip on identity. The story delves into themes of nostalgia, survival, and the search for meaning in a world shaped by greed and existential despair.

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  I’m Turning Green!

  Marc Eaton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book follows a girl as she slowly turns green in a black and white world. She slowly learns to accept herself and in the process, learns something about everyone else!

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  Fresh Sardine, Fresh Dream

  Yiting Fei, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Everyone has some dreams to some extent. Children speak freely, discussing their dreams. These dreams roam in an ocean built by childhood innocence, a space that allows dreams to survive. But most of these dreams are caught by the massive net of reality during the growth process, like sardines being canned, at the mercy of others. They die on the conveyor belt of economics and interests, gradually losing their bright colors, rotting, disappearing, as if they were utterly insignificant. This project is a monument to some dreams. How they form, and how they end.

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  Worth a Burger?

  Cecilia (Yanyi) Fu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION - New England Chapter Purchase Prize | $375 "Worth a Burger?" is an interactive artist’s book that explores income inequality and global economic disparities through the simple act of buying a McDonald's burger. By comparing the average hourly wage, burger prices in U.S. dollars, and the time needed to earn enough for a burger in the U.S., France, China, and Brazil, the project highlights stark differences in purchasing power and labor value. Each country is represented visually, showing how globalization’s "standard" products carry vastly different economic burdens depending on location. This work invites reflection on the true cost of cheap fast food and the global divide in labor and consumption.

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  Dreaming of being a butterfly

  Zhu Gaocanyue, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A book of dreaming and wondering

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  Hungry Again

  Casey Gao, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is a interactive pop up book that describes how income inequality causes food insecurity. I researched food insecurity along with its causes and effects. The pages and pop ups were designed on Adobe Illustrator. All popups are hand cut and glued.

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  Lost and Found

  Britney Garibay, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A book designed to help children process ideas of homelessness, grief and loss.

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  Ways of Seeing Cicadas

  Zoe Gilmore, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book was made in response to my older sister, Kathryn Gilmore’s poem titled “13 Ways of Seeing Cicadas.” The poem has 13 stanzas reflecting on growing up in the American South, memory, and cultural views of the periodical cicada. It begins by describing the cicada in context with nature using imagery and our childhood experiences with the insects. As the poem progresses, the lens in which the reader views the cicada broadens— rather than an individual creature, we see the swarm. In this book format, the poem and illustrations become a structure that ties the two mediums together, similar to our relationship as sisters.

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  A Guide to Japanese Papermaking with Kozo

  Xiao Guo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A handbook on the process of making paper with Kozo, from mulberry bark to finished sheets.

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  I dreamed of a future

  Manuela Guzmán, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  "I Dreamed of a Future" is an artist's book about a context where humanity no longer exists and nature can look at itself again. Its folding structure and non-linear narrative reinforce the idea of multiplicity and distance from the dichotomies and duality of human perspective. The interaction becomes an important part of this piece, as it allows us to experience how different elements interact with each other to become a whole. Nature can be seen from different perspectives that are intertwined in infinite ways. This book offers a glimpse of these perceptions and is a place to imagine a future we are not part of.

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  How To Crochet

  Koji Hellman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  LAURIE WHITEHILL PURCHASE PRIZE | $375 This is a book that teaches you how to crochet, made entirely out of crochet. Along with providing instructions for how to complete fundamental stitches, the book also includes a crochet hook and skein of yarn for a user to use while reading along.

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  Beneath the Surface

  Noreen He, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Beneath the city's polished surface lies an unseen rhythm - hands that build, clean and carry, shaping a world they will never fully inhabit. This is a tribute to the quiet force that sustains us, invisible yet.

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  The Guide to an Impossible Maze

  Harry Hines, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A lighthearted but critical design concept that hopes to encourage the viewer to engage with their history and their future. The physical form and details of the book hopes to evoke a full context and history for the book to allow the reader to suspend disbelief and fully immerse themselves in a theoretical experience.

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  Whales in the City

  Larissa Hom, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Using the technique of tunnel books, Whales in the City is a light box designed for interactive play in which viewers can open and place different sheets of paper to change their color. When layering multiple sheets of paper, the color changes. This piece is hand cut with an exploration of different thicknesses of paper to give a sense of depth of field of a cityscape.

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  This moment

  Yeriel Jeong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  ‘This moment’ beautifully explores the paradoxical and contradictory nature of time, the way a speaker addresses a loved one. We can read the irony of time, which is absolute, yet relative, and seems to exist forever, but only exists for that moment. It's poetic, it's emotional, but it's also a reflection on time and life. As time and life are indefinable, we paradoxically realize that we should cherish each moment.

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  Deep Sea Journey

  Sophie Kim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Inspired by picture books of childhood, this artist’s book takes you through the adventure of a discarded doll through the ocean.

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  The Price of Being a Women

  Mikayla Korczynski, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This Book focuses on the Income Inequality that women still face throughout today's society and specifically in the workforce. The Gender Wage Gap in the United States has barely improved within the last 20 years, and this book brings focus to the facts and statistics around this issue. Further, it explores the statistics of how these systems effect women's income as well as their place within the American workforce. Despite women accounting for almost half of the workforce, these issues remain prevalent in every industry in the United States.

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  Derma

  Sasha Lee, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A look at how OCD and skin-picking is a part of me and its physical as well as non-physical expressions. The pages in this book can be detached, moved, and read separately. Although the outer cover is very textural, I am exploring how different book formats help express the condition’s connections to their parts of my life, like language and spirituality.

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  Fish Girl

  Sadie Levine, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Fish Girl is a picture book that celebrates weirdness and absurdity, chronicling the journey to self-acceptance on an unexpected path.

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  Homewards

  Lu Jia Liao, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A little star and its journey back home

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  Wander

  Ellie Lin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This children's comic book follows a young wanderer on their outdoor adventure. The pages come alive with the playful spirit of each biome and the movement of animals through their habitat. The book is an immersive view into the intimate ever-growing relationship between children and the natural world.

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  Beyond the Eyes

  Yuqi Liu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  HONORABLE MENTION | $100 Using a microscope unveils the intricate patterns and textures of mushrooms, revealing a hidden world beyond the human eye. These microscopic images are photo-etched and printed onto handmade paper crafted from a blend of shiitake mushrooms and Kozo fiber. The process of breaking down mushrooms from a growing kit and reforming them into paper mirrors nature’s cycles of decay and renewal, capturing the unseen beauty and complexity of mushrooms in a tangible, symbolic form.

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  One's Life

  Airien Ludin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This work is based on the short story 'Story of your Life' by Ted Chiang. The story tells about a woman learns an alien language that presents time as a whole, which makes her see memories of the past, present, and future as one whole. This work is an illustrated presentation in the shape similar to a calendar of the woman's life, from when she met the aliens, to the birth and tragic death of her daughter. I encourage the viewers to go through work on their own 'time', flipping through the pages, seeing through to the future, finding the connections in between the events. Appreciating the moments as they happen.

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  The Return

  Haley Maka, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The Return is a nostalgic journey recounting my memories of my childhood home. As I wander back through my old stomping grounds, I can’t help but feel as if something is missing. This book takes the reader through my home room by room seeing it as it was and how it will remain in my memory.

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  There is no new thing under the sun

  Catalina Martinez Rojas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  There Is No New Thing Under the Sun is an artist's book presented as a printed piñata. It is part of a series of publications that aim to illuminate the connection between domesticity and tragedy. From my point of view, a piñata is the domestication of every kind of object in the world. It is also an object that is meant to be destroyed. The destruction of the sun is the immense final tragedy. This piñata can be either an object to be destroyed to discover what is inside it or an object to contemplate and assume what the text suggests: there is no new thing under the sun. The possibility that the end of the world happening multiple times is my way to accept tragedy and beauty. At the same time, this book is a reflection on artistic practice. “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9) is a Bible verse that says everything that happens today has happened before; hence, there are no new ideas. This makes me wonder: What can happen with my work once I accept this reality? Does it become easy to create something meant to be destroyed? (No).

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  My Dream House

  Longwen Miao, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This project envisions a “Dream Home”—a place you have imagined or have yet to imagine. This home offers limitless space to accommodate your family and friends, connects you with nature, and opens doors to any city or even the universe. It is not just a house but a vision of freedom, connection, and infinite possibilities.

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  Rewriting Love

  Sophia Minogue, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Rewriting Love zine aims to challenge the hierarchy between friendships and romance, and reconsider the role of friendship as an equally valuable form of love. The zine shares a personal perspective and cultural critique, and gives a space for readers to interact by writing a love letter or message to their friends with a perforated postcards.

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  The Forest in the Haze

  Songyi Moon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  "The Forest in the Haze" is a children's book inspired by my personal journey as an international student. It tells the story of a girl who gets lost in a haze-filled forest but refuses to give up. Her perseverance leads her to discover a magical hidden city, symbolizing resilience, hope, and the rewards of overcoming challenges.

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  Birthdays without you

  Natasha Ng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Loss is described through the passing of birthdays, the change in environment, people and subject matter convey the transience of time and the memories left behind by others. The symbol of the raven is present throughout as a reminder that the feeling of loss never leaves and recurs through different points of life.

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  Lost and Found

  Angelina (Ziyun) Nian, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A Lost and Found of my childhood and memories in the form of nostalgic sweets. Lost and found and lost again.

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  The Book of Bernagilde

  Georgia Oldham, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Bernagilde Fotbert longs to go to Lord Hartwig's ball and snag a rich nobleman of her own, but lately she's been down on her luck. Join Bernagilde on her journey through medieval mishaps and tomfoolery of yore in this flamboyant queer fairytale!

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  Slouching towards

  Robin Pan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  In response to collaborative surrealism drawing movement and the attempt of community building, this book is a collaborative scroll drawing that includes 15 RISD students’ synchronies effort that creates an allegory of landscape and connections. Together, we create an improvised and interpretive narrative in response to each other to form a landscape that could be rolled up, unfold, read, and build a pathway where our shared imagination could be linked and moving forward.

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  Two Fish

  Gabi Park, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The book starts divided into two sections where we can see how two fish grow up. In equal situations such as healthcare and education, the treatment that the fish receive vary based on their income. The book merges together in the end, bringing the two fish into one frame. The rich fish blames the poor fish’s situation of its laziness, which is ironic because we saw that their outcome was highly based on what they were born with. This combats the idea that wealth is always earned, and how wealthy individuals fail to acknowledge this fact.

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  The Library of Babel

  Mailee Phan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  An adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel," this book aims to make the complexities of the infinite Library presented in the short story easily understood as both an explanatory book and a representation of its rooms. Borges describes the universe as a library that contains all possible variations of a given set of orthographic symbols within 410-page books. The books are kept on shelves in hexagonal rooms, each room interconnected with hallways and ventilation shafts in the center. On its exterior folds, this illustrated book describes the basic structure of each room (first tier), the narrator's understanding of the Library (second tier), and noted groups of "librarians" that roam through the Library (third tier). On the interior, the shelves of books in each room are drawn, creating a physical example of a hexagonal room on each tier.

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  Notes on Iterating

  Daniella Pozo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  In addition to the essay in the book, I want to say this was a months-long exploration into abstraction using printmaking processes. I translated an initial image through lithography, letterpress, collage, digital print, collage, and RISO to arrive at these images. Throughout this experiment, I wondered how many different ways I could interpret one image and what it means for a print to have a relationship to its matrix.

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  & adalaide

  Avery Reinhold, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  ‘& adalaide’ is a book that discusses the feeling of disconnection from oneself and living a life that does not feel like your own. It showcases this idea through the lens of one girl whose two lives begin to contradict and overlap each other as the book progresses. The visuals exude a feeling of disorientation and confusion very similar to a dissociative experience. It takes the form of a soft book created by hand-sewing and hand-embroidery, both processes that can cause meditative states akin to that of a dissociative one.

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  Quiet Little Star

  Celisse Sanchez, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A story about a little girl who follows the stars to find her inner light

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  Sorry About All of This

  Ryan Scott, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  4.5”x6” hardcover, stitched publication featuring a collection and essays and articles by students, comedians, veterans, and sociologists on the topic of voting in the US Presidential election, or rather choosing not to. Depicts images of screen-printed shirt and 45+ custom campaign-style pins. Completed for Translation project for Typography 3 with Kathy Wu. The prompt was to choose a media object and 'translate' it through two ways. I chose to make campaign paraphernalia (custom shirts and pin) as well as an essay collection book.

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  Old Souls

  Lian Qiu Shi, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  In this two spread pop up book, I think about how I can depict an old soul through pure imagery. A colourful chalk pastel title on this grey box brings back memories of drawing on the sidewalk. It contains two portraits, which open up to reveal their “old souls”. Each portrait has an element that relates the inside to the outside; a polka dot bow turns into an old ladies’ visor, and big statement earrings are always timeless!

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  Exploratory Laparotomy

  Maya Lakshmi Srinivasan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This piece, a series of paper pulp paintings compiled into a handbound book, reflects on experiences in emergent, frequently bloody, trauma operations. The abdomen is splayed open, explicit and vulnerable, ready for the damage to be repaired and sewn back together again in an attempt to save a life. This book attempts to tell that story.

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  A Short Recall

  Ruofei Sun, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Memories are something that fade; there’s a pale filter added to them by time. In this book honoring my memories, I use lumen prints as the primary source of images that symbolizes the inextricable connection to the city Shanghai that I grew up in.

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  Leviathan, or The Provenance, Construction, and Power of a Language Ecclesiastical and Invasive

  Luna Tobar, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  An exploration on my convoluted and strained relationship with Spanish, a language I only sort of know. It is made from ephemera and scans of materials I've been reading and writing during my time re-learning the language. Printed on the materials are prints containing various images relating to my 'Latino' identity. Whatever that really means.

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  Kelly Gang's Last Stand

  Alejandro Toro, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A short comic the tells the story of the capture of infamous bushmen outlaw Ned Kelly

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  Eggcyclopedia

  Minh Khue Truong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  As a series of eight eggs of increasing sizes, the eggcyclopedia goes from the smallest bird egg, the humming bird, to the largest, the ostrich. Cracking open the world of eggs, the book eggxamines how long each bird egg takes to hatch, how a chick looks like compared to a full grown, and what is and egg?! A curious scramble of science and whimsy, the eggcyclopedia is an eggxellent read for avid egg eggxperts.

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  Bucket heads

  Yeying Wen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The story is about a group of people who only talk but do not put their words into action.

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  Hide and Seek

  Vicky Yang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Look for the white rabbit in this interactive pop-up book! Follow cues and hints provided by fellow animals and explore the magical forest!

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  Women on the Loom

  Wendy Yao, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This artist book, which takes inspiration from the women's liberation movement, is shaped like a sewing thread and explores the intersection of the women's rights movement and the economic inequality of the times through the perspective of British female textile workers in the 1980s.

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  Zombies Don’t Fall In Love

  Marie You, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  On Chinese social media, bots that generate automated posts by imitating real users are colloquially referred to as “zombies” (僵尸号). This zine explores the relationship between humanity and the artificial entities we’ve cultivated by recontextualizing bot posts as love letters. Through the juxtaposition of algorithmically-generated messages and archival type specimens, illustrations, and photography, the zine humanizes the “web robots” we must coexist with in our daily lives.

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  I Was Built to Be a Mountain Not a Creek

  Cindy Zhao, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  GRAND PURCHASE PRIZE | $500 Menstrual pads as flippable pages of a book, this materiality tackles the ongoing social stigma of menstrual shaming and attempts to explore the definition of femininity as a whole. Is a part of womanhood just constant bleeding and cramping pain? The text embroidered are Nüshu女书 (directly translates to "women's script"), a writing system derived from Mandarin that is believably the only language system in the world that is strictly used among women. Only passed down from mothers to daughters, Nüshu, like periods, are similarly secretive. It was used as an underground channel to build female communities and commiserate over Chinese patriarchy. Written in this Nüshu is the school motto of the first ever no-tuition all-girls high school in China. The school takes in students whose education were often sacrificed when their families only send the boys to school. Layered with heavy Chinese cultural context, I aim to highlight such subversions to gender norms brought by both Nüshu and the all-girls school. They are resources only handed into women's hands, playing on the societal norm of male-only privileges and exclusivities and thereby reclaiming what was unfairly taken away from the female community. Presented like a present box, the empowering school motto is a gift to all girls who pick up this book. Others are also welcomed to look through the pages, and confront gender oppression by touching the taboo menstrual pads that are in blood-like colors and immerse in the experience of not-knowing, not-invited. "I was built to be a mountain not a creek" is the first line of the school motto poem.

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  新年快乐（Xin Nian Kuai Le)

  Jolin Zheng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This children’s popup picture book explores the celebration of lunar new years through 5 distinct panels.

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  It Was a Normal Sunday Breakfast

  Ivy Zhou, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The images inside this zine are images I accidentally found on my mobile hard drive. It was taken before everything confusing happened. On that morning, there wasn't any pandemic, family issue, college application, having another cat... It was the summer of 2019. I was a high school student who just got back home for summer break. Me and my parents ordered our favorite fast food breakfast; our cat was there witnessing us, and somehow I had a camera on me and recorded that moment, a moment none of us remembered.

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  Yao Lan Qu (Lullaby)

  Lily Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Inspired by a traditional Chinese lullaby, this artist book illustrates the shared stories of my mom and me. First time in separation with my mother, this book explores themes of heritage, memory, and the enduring bond between generations.

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  Artist Statement

  Nicole Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  “Artist Statement” is a chapbook exploring the multiplicity of identity, family, and home. It leverages unconventional poetry and material, to portray the ambiguity of diasporic identities and address affect. “Artist Statement” encourages readers to not only perceive the transparent, but also appreciate the un-understandable.

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  Wonder Box

  Joanne Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This a collection of my time spent daydreaming, wondering, feeling, and seeing things that delight me. What if clouds Within a box that can be unwrapped like a gift and transformed, I hope to share the wonder inside with everyone who opens it so they can navigate through the space, finding and enjoying the little things within each corner.

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  The F* Words: Food, Fermentation, and Feminism

  Yimiao Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The F* Words: Food, Fermentation, and Feminism is a visual exploration of fermentation as both a biological process and a symbolic framework. Inspired by the transformative nature of fermentation, this project uses reduction woodcuts and mold cultivation on paper to challenge traditional ideas of purity, boundaries, and preservation, particularly through a feminist and queer lens. Fermentation, often perceived as messy or unhygienic, becomes a powerful act of resistance against Western ideologies that champion order, cleanliness, and containment. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, as well as the work of fermentation activist Sandor Katz, this project subverts the conventional notions of health and purity embedded within colonial and patriarchal narratives. Through my experiments with microbial growth and reduction woodcut, I engage with fermentation as both a material and metaphorical process, reflecting on how societal boundaries around gender, race, and identity are continuously dissolved and reformed. In the studio, my reduction woodcuts mirror the fermentation process—layered, irreversible, and open to natural unpredictability. By intentionally growing mold on my prints, I invite transformation directly onto the artwork, merging organic decay with visual creation. This act embraces the non-linear, collaborative potential of microbial life, recognizing the intimate relationship between our bodies, our environment, and the communities we shape. Through The F Words*, I seek to dismantle rigid boundaries and invite viewers to consider the beauty in change, decay, and collaboration. This project underscores that just as fermentation reshapes food, embracing imperfection and transformation can reshape our understanding of art, identity, and connection.

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  2024 Pop-Up Calendar

  Margaryta Winkler, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This project in an attempt to turn something as mundane and sometimes even intimidating as a monthly calendar into a one-of-a-kind artistic object that induces a sense of wonder, joy, and hopeful anticipation of the future in the viewer. Each month features a unique pop-up structure that was colored, cut out and assembled by hand.

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  All About Honeycomb Cowfish — the Ultimate Pop-up Book

  Yicong Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The concept of this book is based on a previous assignment, which is the motif and pattern design project. The motif I designed in that project is based on the Honeycomb Cowfish skin specimen in the nature lab. To expand on this project I made a pop up science book for kids about this type of fish. The skin pattern of hexagon, parallelogram, and diagonal line is focused throughout the book as a design language, while the words included in the book are reappropriated into simple language that children can understand. Different types of pop up forms are designed on each page with the aim of promoting learning experiences as well as striking visual effects. The inner pages of the book are printed on Bristol paper, as are the pop up elements, which are being cut down and constructed by hand. The cover is made from chipboard. All the cover and inner pages are designed to procreate aforehand, making the book digitally available as well.