One of the items that was used for the current Special Collections and University Archives ISU Pammel Court exhibit (designed by the History 481x class) is this little book. For the exhibit they wanted to show both the cover and one of the interior pages displayed as one piece.
With a quick sketch I came up with this:
I then had to think about how to hold the book up so it didn’t slide off the display wedge.
And then I had to figure out the dimensions….hmmmm…..
I drew out the 45 degree template and put the spine of the book along the diagonal. I went up about ¾ of the way and dropped a line down to the base. That gave me the measurements for the angled front piece, the back and the base.
I extended the base measurement out to make the lip that holds the book.
Then transferred all those measurements to a scrap piece of scrap board. Base, front, back, base with extension, face for book stop wedge, the piece the book will rest against, and the inner base to tape down.
I took those measurements and laid them out on the mat board and scored the lines about ¾ of the way through on what will be the bottom side of the base and added a piece of double stick tape to hold the book stop and inner base to the larger base.
And removed the little bit that wasn’t needed.
Double stick tape was used to hold the lip and the bottom pieces of the book support together after the book stop had already been folded and taped down.
This is what the final piece looked like from the side…
and from the front with a copy of the selected page.
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