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on Dec 3, 2006 in friends book arts so, seeing as how my new hobby is book binding, I though I had better start attending the shows. Absolutely I spent part of my Sunday wandering around OCAD, looking at various books as art. Now, see, the thing is, I like books first and art second. W...
Eccentric Library
on Oct 23, 2008 in book arts For all of you who dream of being able to buy all the beautiful books you ever wanted, Wired recently featured a private library of a guy named Jay Walker who made his money in technology, then started collecting rare and beautiful books.Here, you ca...
New Designs
on Nov 4, 2008 in My Bindings book arts bookbinding As I have mentioned before, I've been busy coming up with some new book designs. Here is one of them, a happy orange book with a yellow spine: I've been wanting to create a book that has the medieval binding stitch on the spine that I love and use fo...
A bit of a whinge….
on Nov 24, 2008 in Art Book arts Bookbinding Books Christmas Crafts Families Food Handmade books Humour Pets Shopping Videos paper arts web design BBC Milo Outnumbered Gordon Ramsey art sale websites Duck House I’ve been busy. Yes, me. Holiday Queen. I designed a website for a friend and she mentioned this to her friend who happened to need a website and her brother, who happened to need a website and Lo! and Behold! I have been working. All a bit of...
If you have 100,000 euros to spare.....
on Dec 7, 2008 in book arts .....(and who doesn't?) you might want to pick up a copy of this book of photos of Michelangelos' art, called “Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano” (“Michelangelo: The Wise Hand”). It's a 46 lb. (20.8 kg.) limited edition handbound book that comes in...