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Bookbinding & Book Arts
Calligraphy & Illumination
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B3307. True Nature / Bash
True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude by Barbara Bash. 2004. 144pp. 7.75"x10". Hardcover
List Price: $24.95.
Calligrapher Barbara Bash has created this lovely nature journal, which combines a handwritten text with delightful watercolors. She caringly records and reflects on her encounters with animals and plants during solitary walks around the countryside of upstate New York. She captures wondrous moments in the natural environment: a dragonfly's brief pause, a surprised deer in tall grass, woodchucks watching her from a distance, a raindrop making its way down a windowpane. This hardbound book is a delight. The dust jacket is of uncoated, cream laid-finish paper, backed with plastic so it does not tear. Hidden underneath, a green cloth covers the boards with a small watercolor tipped in a recess on the front cover. The exquisite illustrations are printed in full-color on a soothing cream paper. It makes a wonderful gift.
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B3147. Liu and the Bird / Louis
Liu and the Bird: A Journey in Chinese Calligraphy by Catherine Louis. 2006. 32pp. 9.8" x 9.5". Hardcover $16.95. SALE
This innovative book combines the story of Liu & her visit to her grandfather with a rebus-style look at the evolution of Chinese written language, from pictures to today's modern calligraphy characters. You can read them, play with them, and dream about them. This book is sure to please children and adults of all backgrounds with its peek into this fascinating topic.
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B3224. American Signs / Lisa Mahar.
American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66 by Lisa Mahar. 2002. 272pp. 7"x9". Paper $40.00. SALE
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American Signs traces the evolution of motel signs on Route 66 in a distinctive visual approach that combines text, images, and graphics. It presents the rich vernacular traditions of motel sign-making in five eras, spanning from the late 1930s through the 1970s. The motel signs of the early 1940s, for instance, reflect vernacular traditions dating back at least a century, while examples from the later years of the decade reveal a culture newly obsessed with themes. America's fascination with newness and technological progress is manifested in 1950s motel signs. Finally, in the 1960s, a turn toward simplicity and the use of new, modular technologies allowed motel signs to address the needs of a mass society and the beginnings of a national, rather than regional, aesthetic for motel signs.
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B3225. History Of Language / Steven Fischer
A History Of Language by Steven Fischer. 2004. 240pp. 5"x8". Paper $19.95. SALE
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This very readable book charts the history of communication from the time before human language was conceived through the media explosion of the present day. Fischer also looks to the future, asking how electronic media are daily reshaping the world's languages and suggesting a radical reinterpretation of what language really is. The book begins with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of 'language' might be applied. It charts the history of language from the times of early humans through the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed. The book analyzes the study of language as a science and language's development as a written form. Includes the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, and examines the effects TV and radio, propaganda, advertising, the media, and the internet are having on language today as well as the effect of the internet. Steven Roger Fischer is Director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, New Zealand.
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B3228. Art of Egyptian Hieroglyphics / Sandison
Art of Egyptian Hieroglyphics by David Sandison. 2005. 96pp. 10"x10". Hardcover
This beautiful, full-color book covers deciphering hieroglyphics, the principals of Egyptian art, techniques of the master craftsmen, line drawings, and paintings of everyday life in ancient Egypt. Many full page photos.
List Price $25.00
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B3088. Letter Perfect: Modernist Typography / Ryan
Letter Perfect: The Art of Modernist Typography 1896-1953 by David Ryan. 2001. 112pp. 8" x 10" Hardcover $30.00. Sale $14.98.
Primarily through posters, this book explores the art and evolution of typeset matter: the styles, arrangement, and appearance. The selections within the book are reproductions from the archives of the Print and Drawing Collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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B3117. Handmade Gift Cards / Cheryl Owens
Handmade Gift Cards: Over 50 Original Designs for All Occasions by Cheryl Owens. 2001. 128pp. 8x9.5. Paper $19.99. SALE
Over 20 step-by step card projects. Techniques include Metal foil, flat gilding, stenciling, paint resists, wire work. Embellishments are mostly common materials or created: Buttons, sequins, small feathers, bay leaves. The balsa wood, corrugated cardboard, eyelet, bird house is delightful. The cards are not for specific holidays or events.
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B3120. Paper Pop Up / Wood
B3120. Paper Pop Up: 40 Dynamic Designs for Surprising Cards and Gifts by Dorothy Wood. 2006. 112pp. 8.25"x10.75". Paper $19.99. Sale $8.95
The projects are centered on events: Mothers Day, Easter, Fathers Day, Wedding, Birthdays, Halloween, Christmas. For each of the holidays, the projects have matching color schemes and decorative elements. Ingenious elements abound: pop-ups, turning wheels, pull tabs and slider bars, envelope reveals. Cards open to reveal a blooming bouquet of flowers, a stack of baby building blocks, cars, clowns and more. There's a colorful interactive advent calendar, a fun Easter gift box, board books, photo frames, scrapbooks, table decorations, party surprises. Step-by-step instructions, tips and templates are provided. Full of charming ideas.
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B3123. Quick & Clever Instant Cards / Hickey
Quick & Clever Instant Cards: Over 100 Fast-to-Make Handmade Designs and Ideas by Julie Hickey. 2005. 112pp. 11" x 8.5". Paper $19.95. Paper Sale
First is good section on the tools and materials that you will need to make these cards and how to use them. Step by step instructions for easy-to-make designs for popular celebrations, including birthdays, new baby, weddings, new home, and Christmas with creative variations on each. The designs use stickers, rubberstamps, paper punches, patterned paper, "jewels" in various shapes, purchased embellishments, colored string, buttons, pre-embossed blank cards and more. The cards are nice, elegant at times, fun.
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B3203. Embroidered Books: Design, Construction and Embellishment
B3203. Embroidered Books: Design, Construction and Embellishment by Isobel Hall. 2009. 128pp. 8.75"x11". Hardcover
This unique book's theme is using thread, stitches, and embroidery (by hand or with machine) to decorate books. The embroidery is used in conjunction with a variety of papers, fabrics, and a range of techniques to create pictorial or decorative effects. The book starts with a detailed section on sewing signatures. The first group of projects is for specific binding structures: posts/screws, Japanese side stitched, concertina (accordion), shaped books, carousel books, waterfall pages, and box books. The focus here is on the decoration, rather than the construction, of the book. The second group of projects presents decorative and illustrative techniques and materials: cocoon stripping, plaster of Paris, inkjet printing, glue sticks, metal relief foils, texture effects, marbling, working with waxes, using Grungeboard, using pulp papers. The author is British. Some of the materials mentioned in the book may, at first, be unknown to you because they have different names in the US and the UK. For example, grey board (UK) = chipboard (US).
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