The Book I have chosen is Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham.

The book I have chosen to interpret is Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. This book is a personal favourite of mine, I have loved it since I was a child. I was first introduced to the book when I was just 4 years old when my teacher Mrs Leek read it aloud to the class. I instantly fell in love with the unusual story lines and magical creatures. My mother then bought me the book for my birthday. I finally had a copy and my own doorway into the bizarre yet beautiful mind of Dr. Seuss. From there on this book never fails to excite me and amaze me, with it's unique illustration along with it's bright bold lines and colours, which come to life every time you open the book and read the imaginative story line.

Dr.Seuss

The Book Project

I had a summer Project given to me for my first year of uni in Cardiff met the brief was:-

The Book

For this project we would like you to find a book, it can be any sort of book, but choose carefully as we are asking 

you to re-interpret it. You can intervene with it, hack it, deconstruct it, recycle it, re-interpret it, you can work 

with both its form and its content to explore its reinvention/re-presentation in a myriad of ways.

What does a book represent or mean to you… as message, medium, metaphor or material?

For centuries books have contained and presented the written words that have allowed humankind to study and 

interpret the world. The role of books is questioned in our digital age, yet they continue to be objects of desire 

with an emotive allure. You can explore the interplay between the function, structure, and format of books and 

the outcomes can be as diverse as books themselves.

A book is a place, a site, a repository, a dream, a collection, a life, but it is also material, physical and adaptable.

It can be factual, imaginative, instructive, inflammatory, poetic or profound.

What informs your choice of book to work with & what types of book are there to choose from: genres, 

reference, manual, technical, health, historic, graphic novel…

Take a book on a journey: bring back to college 10 different propositions and one realised outcome.

Consider:

• How is a book constructed, from what materials and what techniques? Traditionally it is paper based with ink 

print, bound through glue or stitch the leaves of which are held between harder protective covers. Work with 

this or against it.

• How is it bound, which cultures make books differently?

• What is your relationship to the book: is it ‘yours’ or is it borrowed, stolen, found, gifted, cherished and 

shared. What are you wishing to say and share about the experience of the book to others.

Remember you are not making a book…. You are making a book into something new.

I was given this at the beginning of  July 2014.