What is Book Bakery

(BB)

The concept of "book bakery" was born out of an interest in books and baked food. The content of the book with its physical structure makes us interested in a book. If we can consider the book as an object what we don't only read or see, the book itself can decide to unfold an idea it can make us more curious with its physical ability. The ability created by its material (Paper, Glue, Spine and any other material used for the book or can be used for the book) and the relation between material, how all of the materials are collaborating together with a presence or dominance of a designer; and more in the inside now typography, a raster image is fit with the physical book or image can be fallen down or some typo? is it really necessary to be all typo or image printed in the book in a very good structural order? sometimes we keep too much text and image in a book and then edit for the final book with a very few text and image making it into the final book. What about if we can print some of the trashed items with the book without spinning it and it will fall when you read?

Book Bakery wants to start the journey with some content that gives the feeling of eating a nice baked meal inside. Some of us, when we get bored or hungry while reading a book, we eat biscuits and another bakery meal. The body of a book can be as delicious as its ingredients, like any tasty bakery food. Since healthy and tasty food and books are essential for us.

Why?

Previously I was stagnated with the idea that a book means a structure of a hardcover inside some paper where some text and image is hidden. My idea makes me frustrated and I started to rethink about a physical book. As mostly text and image lives like a family member inside a book, I tried to give better living space to them. As a structure, broadly architecture or sculpture the outlook is cannot be only a beautiful cover it can be contextual with its material and process of its making. I don’t know what will end but it needs to be a collaboration where materials should be communicative to each other. Book bakery is a window, who is interested to work jointly with publisher, writer, content owner, graphic designer and also book shop.

Karnaphuli Paper Mill (KPM) the biggest paper mill in Bangladesh, was established at Chandraghona, Chittagong in 1951. Its products consisted of writing, printing and typing papers, corrugated boards, wax-coated papers, paper cones, gummed tapes, and bitumin paper. KPM uses pulp obtained from fibrous raw materials (FRM) like wood andbamboo mostly from Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts. After rising private company and imported paper business, few type paper is possible to get now in commercial market, they stop their biggest part, they supply paper for governmental office purpose. The story of KPM’s inside is look like Adomji Jute Mill (was a largest jute meal in Bangladesh). What it will be if the both heritage can be published as a book printed in a newsprint paper (similar paper of LWC paper) paper by Karnaphuli paper with spinning by Jute. There is a lot of way for BB can be conceptualise. Book bakery did not mean that all book need to be look like baked food in outlook rather BB is curious to a book can be produce better tasty feelings like a better baked food and its “good look”.

Sometime in print area we got bulk of used paper from the West for mostly printing mistake. Those paper sometime I feel to use somehow, (if any project particularly fit) we can print solid to erase previous than can print our content. A lot of possibility make me interested to make book as an art/architecture object.