Michelle Olson made this book as an example for her class The Versatile Concertina Spine. There’s a poem on one side and then a great illustration on the back. Found here
Gill
Gill Sans (designed by Eric Gill) is one of my favorite fonts. This photo is marked ‘Part of a drawing for Gill Sans C D G O Q dated 20.12.32. The original is in pencil and colour wash on graph paper and measures 11″ wide by 14.5″ high.’ Reproduced in: The Monotype Recorder, Volume XLI No. 3, Autumn, 1958. Read more about Gill Sans. Photo found here.
Single sheet book
Carolina Martinez-Marin made this single sheet book called “South London, from a Plane going back Home (Reconstruction)” She uses both sides of the paper for her digitally altered images. She says her “pamphlet book … illustrates a place visited by only the mechanisms of memory.” Found here.
Advent calendar presents
I’m making a set of advent calendar presents to send to my Mom during December. She doesn’t need or want more clutter, so much of the list I’ve compiled thus far has books for her Kindle, socks, chocolates. But since she’s played the piano since she was a kid, I couldn’t resist this pop-up piano card. Instructions and template here and here
Pretty H
VCU Book Arts Collection
Last year at the Oak Knoll Book Fest, I met the 2 women who run the Virginia Commonwealth University book arts program. I noticed recently a nice blog post about some of their library book arts holdings. Here are just 2 (see them all here).
Alisa Banks’s Edges (“Edges” is part of a series of altered books that feature hair crocheted onto the edges of the books’ pages.)
Scott McCarney’s “Diderot/Doubleday/Deconstruction. Volume IV” (created … by carving a 20th-century Doubleday Encyclopedia to reveal images of workers representing the book trades from Diderot’s 18th-century “L’Encyclopédie.”)