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B3305. Self-made Stationery / Udagawa
Self-made Stationery: Handmade Goods Designed by Me by Kazumi Udagawa. 2009. 96pp + 7 pages of full-color templates. 8"x10". Paper $17.95.
Projects include a rubber band notebook, side-stitch travelers memo pad, tear-off memo board, monthly file made from envelopes, pen/pencil case box, sewn tote book, bookmarks, greeting cards and more. It’s a nicely designed book with easy, fun projects.
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B2904. Classic Calligraphic Designs
Classic Calligraphy Designs. Book and CD-ROM. 2002. 48pp. 8.25"x11". Paper
378 off-hand flourished images of faces, creatures, birds, fish and abstract motifs in both book form and CDROM. Includes examples of both the off-hand flourishing style of the master penmen of the 19th and 20th centuries and the figurative pen work of Renaissance and later scribes.
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B3206. Scripsit: Graceful Envelope III
Graceful Envelope Scripsit III edited by Lorraine Swerdloff. 2009. 24pp. 8.5"x11".
The third issue of this popular series is now available. It presents envelopes from the 2006, 2007 and 2008 contests. The themes are: Fine Line, Mailable Feast, and C's the Day. The envelopes are diverse and beautiful -- a wonderful selection for ideas & inspiration and just to enjoy.
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B3148. Uncommon Numbers II / Zoby
Uncommon Numbers II edited by Brenda Casey Zoby.
2010. 64pp. 8.5"x5.5". Paper
A further number anthology with contributions by Marsha Brady, Larry Brady, Denis Brown, Michael Clark, Georgia Deaver, Eliza Holliday, Mike Kecseg, Jean Larcher, Judy Melvin, Brody Neuenschwander, Charles Pearce, John Stevens, Sheila Waters, Ann Alaia Woods, and more.
It showcases styles, techniques, and lettering artists and also includes information about dealing calligraphically with fractions, ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd), and Roman numerals.
Essential information for every working calligraphy library.
Special Price: Purchase a complete set of all three
Uncommon Numbers Books for only $39.95.
B2302. The Uncommon Numbers Manual. Spiral $14.95
B2081. Uncommon Numbers: A Source Book for Artists. Paper $14.95
View a page from Larry Brady and Emily Brown Shield.
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B3230. Bookbinding and Conservation SHEETS / Etherington. UNBOUND SIGNATURES
Bookbinding and Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft by Don Etherington. 2010. 180pp. 8.5" x 11". UNBOUND SIGNATURES
Don Etherington began bookbinding at the age of thirteen and went on to study bookbinding and design at the London School of Printing. This autobiography takes you through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation, including his teaching and his journey from Europe to the US, where he became Training Officer and Assistant Restoration Officer at the Library of Congress in 1970. This account of his personal and professional life includes his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible damage to thousands of books. Etherington's work can be found in collections worldwide. Numerous personal photographs and a gallery of Etherington's fine bindings.
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B3307. True Nature / Bash
True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of the Four Seasons in Solitude by Barbara Bash. 2004. 144pp. 7.75"x10". Hardcover $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.
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.
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.
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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B3226. History of Writing / Stephen Fischer PAPER
A History of Writing by Stephen Fischer. 2003. 352pp. 5.5"x9". Paper $19.95.
From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage - knot records, tally sticks, pictographic storytelling - the book then focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC and their diffusion to Egypt, the Indus Valley, and points east. Special attention given to Semitic writing systems and their eventual spread to the Indian subcontinent.
Also documented is the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Korean and Japanese writing systems and scripts are dealt with in depth, as is writing in pre-Colombian America. Also explored are Western Europe's medieval manuscripts and the history of printing, leading to the innovations in technology and spelling rules of the 19th and 20th centuries. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow. The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a useful reference for both students and specialists as well as the general reader.
Steven Roger Fischer is Director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, New Zealand.
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