Not exactly a toy, but...

Hundreds of sheets of A4 paper later...

I think it beats sitting fiddling with tiny tiny little folds and little bits of tape.

Tea

Recommended by Emeline, a typography obsessed costume student.

I think we came to the agreement that the colours chosen were a good fit with the product and the typefaces put into the shape of the teacup was nice.

papercrafty stuff

amazing castle paper model

For the new brief. It took the guy four days to make!

Oh thank the lord

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Noihswyi8I&feature=related

Ask, and ye shall receive after effects tutorials

And I did watch, and it was good

And I did try to copy what I saw, and it was not as good.

the only cd booklet in my possession

 Meteora by Linkin Park is the only cd album booklet I took with me to Carlisle, and that's only because I didn't bother emptying one of my boxes when I was packing for the move.

Luckily it has full lyrics to the songs, and I've always thought it was a pretty well laid out booklet too.

The front and back are the same image folded in half. The graffiti is because the band dabbles in hip hop as well as metal.

 The images, close ups of the front cover's mural, take up most of the space on the pages.

Because of the graffiti motif running through the booklet, the pages are unified by the colour blue.

I'm not too sure about the lyrics kind of shunted to the side and laid down in white.
Don't know what I would do instead, I'm so used to seeing it like this. It makes a nice contrast against the dark though.

There's a mix of photography and hand drawn imagery that gives an urban feel.

I want to add that this kind of binding is my favourite. I hate the ones you have to struggle to fold up again, like it's one big bit of paper folded in half, then lengthways about seven times or something.

Well, I struggle to anyway...maybe it's just me.

interesting albums

Went for a peek in the Bookcase down the road, thinking maybe classical music albums would have carefully typographed booklets and considered art for the front cover?

Naw.

I think the general idea is "bang a big fancy rennaisance painting on the front cover and slap a load of german/latin lyrics in the middle of each page of the booklet" or "get a black and white image taken at a jaunty angle of the composer/muscian/group and slap it all over the front and back. The booklet can be bare as a baby's arse"

This chillout album had the funkiest cover and booklet in the entire shop. I'm going to HMV to look at proper booklets!