UNDER KUNSTRUCTION

Under KUNSTruction is a self-published book by (at the time) a 3rd year illustration student Dasha Starostin. The entire process of publishing was done under the roof of WdKA. Even the paper was bought in at the WdKA Shop

I will try to walk ou through the process, inserting as many useful links as possible. In the process, I used programs such as Procreate, Abobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.

In the Publication station, I used:
- Screen Printing
- Laser cutter
- Risograph
- laser printer

Besides that:
- folding machine
- cutting machine
- staple binding machine

Cover

1. Screenprinting the letters.
For my cover, I chose light blue textured paper and wanted to print bright orange letters on it. First, I tested the orange acrylic mixed with the screen-printing medium for paper. The result was dark, dull, and brown. The reason for that is the transparency of the screen-printing medium for paper.

To resolve this issue, I printed with white medium for textiles, mixed with orange pigment.

2. Lasercutting the pattern
Another part of my cover design was the laser-cut pattern that imitates construction sites' covers.
I drew the pattern in Procreate

and exported it in Illustrator

my initial design was too complex and contained too many small details. It would take 4 colors to cut. after scaling it up and cleaning the design, I was able to reduce the time to 1 hour.

Pages

I created illustrations in procreate and exported them as PSD files to preserve the layers (PDF with layer would also work).

When you print with the risoprinter, you pay for 1 master, which is the size of A3. Because of that, I prepared a document with 2 spreads on one paper. To figure out the placement, I first made a little dummy book and disassembled it to create a page 1 - side a and b for the spreads 10-11, 4-17,