As it’s after the first of the year, my 2013 desktop calendar is now on sale. It was $22, now $15. Click here to see photos of all the months.
Month: January 2013
Pop-Up Wildflowers
I was looking over Alicia Bailey’s Abecedarian Gallery website the other day and ran across these absolutely wonderful pop-ups by Shawn Sheehy. They are from his A Pop-Up Field Guide to North American Wildflowers. It not only includes the pop-ups, but also “an essay detailing a 21st century ‘Language of Flowers.'” See more pictures here. He’s also selling individual spreads as cards (for sale from Sheehy and from Abecedarian.)
This book neither swaggers nor complains
… ; it rests in the hand; it breathes.
This is Robert Bringhurst’s review of Moon, David Romtvedt’s first book-length collection of poetry, letterpress printed with handset type by Gerald Lange. I thought that line was quite beautiful, and hope I can print a book one day that deserves that sort of praise! You can see a few more pictures here. And read one of Romtvedt’s poets here.
Another Hedi Kyle Structure
The Book Art Object blog often has nice posts about how the participants made a book or the thinking behind the structure they chose. The other day Alicia Bailey showed a book based on a Hedi Kyle structure called a panorama book. While I couldn’t find directions, several people on the web mentioned this is a derivation on the flag book.
