An exploration into digital paper cutting and traditional bookbinding.

This report explores paper manipulation throughout a technological and craft based methodology and analyses its effectiveness in its incorporation into an illustrated book.

The initial source of inspiration for exploring paper cutting, and light and shadow effects, originated from observing Java shadow puppets at the Liverpool World Museum. The aesthetic and emotional narrative attached to the shadows inspired the notion of incorporating this technique into a dissimilar form of sequential narrative, a book. The concept was to create a book that would contain comparable elements and would evoke in the reader similar emotional responses as those experienced by the puppet show audiences..