Another selection from the new books that just arrived!
Bookcraft
Techniques for Binding, Folding, and Decorating to Create Books and More
By
From heirloom memories to unique journals, albums, and altered books—or simple tag books for your kids—Bookcraft contains all the skills you will ever need.
This guide provides the essential ingredients for designing and making your own books, from simple binding and finishing techniques to complex complete products. Projects are designed to suit a variety of skill levels from beginner to advanced, and use a step-by-step approach to learning the necessary skills. Discover how to make books of our own, whether as a vehicle for telling stories, as scrapbooks, or as notebooks and journals.
Each project begins with basic techniques and progresses through to thought-provoking applications of those techniques. Each technique includes an example of a finished book that fully and beautifully uses the methods described by the techniques.
Bookcraft explores more experimental binding and page treatment techniques, and has a comprehensive gallery of ideas outlining the skills and materials needed to apply techniques often reserved for professionals.
Heather Weston has an MA in book arts from Camberwell College of Arts, one of London’s leading art colleges. Her design business, Bookery, focuses solely on the book form, encompassing everything from stationery and corporate gifts to conceptual book art. Her work is sold internationally and her book art is held in private and public collections as far a field as Japan, Germany, the US and the UK.
This is such a cool technique. It really has "quality look" and feel for that matter. As you know I like to "pet" stuff. I really think the feel of something is as important as the look. And this technique makes a hand crafted item have both!
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To give this a shot I first had to figure out what I wanted to make, well my old standby is the letter "Y"
I love working with this letter.
So off I went to another cool book in my stash:
Indie Fonts 3
A Compendium of Digital Type from Independent Foundries
P22
The must-have resource for finding the highest quality fonts available today
If you're searching for a font that goes beyond ho-hum, this book is for you. Today's computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. To attract a reader's attention, you need an original font.
This third volume of Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of 1,600 new fonts from today's hottest digital type foundries, and features the best work of these designers. As with the first two volumes, Indie Fonts 3 will help readers find some of the highest quality fonts available today.
Type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter's classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.
On the included CD, you'll also get a collection of 53 bonus fonts.
P22 type foundry creates computer typefaces inspired by art, history, and science. P22 is renowned for its work with museums and foundations to ensure the development of accurate historical typefaces that are fully relevant for today's computer user. In addition to its in-house font design, P22 now licenses several new type designs from around the world. And, of course, no type foundry is complete without its own record label.
I picked this one off the disk of free fonts included-Blackcurrant-Cameo
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So I simply followed the great directions and photos in Bookcraft and here you have it- Surface Sculpted ATCs.
I had to add a bit of Crafty Chica glitter to one!
I hope you'll try this technique whatever kind of paper/book/art you make!
This looks like a GREAT idea. I already have an idea for a design - just got to fid time to try it.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Judy | October 11, 2008 at 06:49 PM