I am fortunate to have one of Leonard Seastone’s books — White Tulips — with haiku by Ronald Baatz. Seastone & Baatz have a new book called The Delicate Work of Song, this one embellished with ideograms by Guyang Chen. It’s really lovely:

Islam Aly‘s book The Square represents both a time and place. He says

(The) Egyptian uprising called for democratic reform. Tahrir Square in Cairo became the focal point and the most effective symbol of the protests in January and February 2011. For 18 days Egyptians repeated the slogan: The People Want to Bring down the Regime (al-sha`b yurid isqat al-nizam) until the regime stepped down on the 11th of February 2011. This book focuses on the revolution slogan ‘al-sha`b yurid isqat al-nizam.’ Using Arabic Kufic script the words of the slogan are repeated in an ascending sequence. Section 19 contains the English translation for the slogan ‘The People Want to Bring down the Regime.’ The last section contains the time and date when the regime stepped down along with the sentence ‘Al Saa’b Askat al Nezam’ with its English translation ‘The People have Brought down the Regime’. Cairo’s map is laser engraved on the book covers. Three edges of the book are colored then laser engraved to show the streets of Cairo.”

See all the work here

My little blizzard book with my haiku poems was accepted in the Hello Hedi show at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland OR. The show features 56 works inspired by the myriad structures Hedi has invented during her long career as artist, conservator and teacher. The online catalog of the show is here, and it is in the gallery until July 25, 2015.

I’ve got some Father’s Day themed notebooks & planners in my shop now… See them all here.

Not sure who made this pop-up mix and match book…. I found it here.

After winning a chili cook-off at his home in northeast Iowa, David Esslemont illustrated his recipe in thirty-nine woodcuts and bound them into this book. He toasts chiles, makes stock, grinds beef, adds garlic & tomato paste… The result is shown on the cover (first picture, below). See all the woodcuts here and Esslemont’s other books (many of them about food, with names like “Taxi Driver Curry” and “Pizza”) here.