Nuit Blanche Mayenne is a one-night event that happens every two years and takes place in the small city of Mayenne: for a few hours, it shows contemporary art and design works in different places of the city center. Calling itself the smallest Nuit Blanche in the world, the even
Bookbinding sounds much more intimidating than it really is, especially considering how loose the definitions of 'book' and 'binding' are i...
Here are several of my latest favorite bookmaking projects! I was at my local library and found these amazing science books on the fre...
Since I made hard covered journal style books in a book making workshop just over a month ago, I have been wanting to make more of...
Look what I made from scratch: a book! Last summer I took a course in bookmaking with Chicago’s Spudnik Press and I’m using the cold and quiet months of winter to re-indulge in this craft during my free time. For Christmas my sister bought me a bookmaking kit from Hollander’s, which is a famous company […]
I started experimenting with handmade and altered books a few years ago. With my first effort, I layered an emulsion transfer of trees over the pages of an old artist's manual. On the facing page I created a small diorama by cutting a hole in the center of the book. My bookmaking venture
Emily Martin’s A Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
libro-1991-collage di stoffe e filoBook. Fabric and Thread Collage, 1991
Oh dear, I'm not awfully good at blogging. My main problem has been having to prioritise and the time I would have taken to write a post has been used for printing or urgent admin. It has been a really, really busy summer and I've been working pretty much every day and night apart from…
“Bottled Up Emotions” by Leslie Pearson
The Neverending Journey
DIY Bookbinding/Bookmaking: How to bind/make your own book, journal, etc. from scratch.
Your typical book uses a codex-style binding—and we'll explore to make them in this bookmaking tutorial.
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For the last couple of years, the school where I was teaching had an arts integration focus where we looking at creative ways to integrate art and writing for children. One thing that we did was a lot of bookmaking...
Our November meeting saw a treasure trove of handmade books revealed. Thank you to Kerrie for her knowledgeable chat on the art of bookmaking. A few of the books and covers displayed: We are all now working on finishing our technique samplers from each month to put into our individual Book of 2014.…
