Bestiary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
For my Final Major Project I created a 416 page hard-back bound bestiary book, based on the tv show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was created as a limited edition book, so I used black cotton fabric to create a soft texture for the cover and screen-printed the title onto it. The illustrations are my own pencil illustrations so I could create varying tones, and the black section pages are also screen-printed to create a definite end to each section. The title "SLAYIN'" I chose to pay homage to The Slayer and to also use modern day slang that females use, i.e slaying that outfit. I used the typeface Caslon throughout the book in Regular, Semibold and Bold.
The main deep red colour (C=28 M=97 Y=80 K=28) is taken from the iconic red leather trousers and jacket that Buffy wore throughout the show. I have also used a similar red for the ribbon along with a black one to complement one another and the colour scheme of the book.
In total the finished book has 13 signatures bound by coptic binding and cross stitching through every other signature to keep it together. There are 12 sections separating out the characters from the show, from main characters like Buffy and Dawn Summers, to episode villains like The Gentlemen. Each section is arranged in alphabetical order and has an alphabetised list at the start of the section, along with a full page corresponding image to the title, i.e. Demons have fire, Vampires have blood. The book is curved at the spine and at the end includes an Index of every character from the show and a colophon.
