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  I ♥ Handmade Books

  Look what I received today! My copy of I Love Handmade Books. I was asked by the author to participate by sending in pictures of some of handbound books and information about them (and myself), as well as a couple of tutorials. Alas, my Japanese stab binding tutorial didn’t make…

  August 29, 2014
• finished work lettering

  Tiffany Anne

  My talented friend Tiffany and I bartered: I would create a name plaque for her and she would make a gift baby quilt for another friend of mine. Custom sketch, digitized, and then laser etched onto birch plywood. I’m not 100% happy with how the staining turned out. It looks…

  May 29, 2014
• finished work lettering

  a fontified version of The Princess Bride

  I’ve been playing with lasers again! These designs were created as prizes for my office. We’re a bunch of nerdy geeks who create fonts for publishing minority languages. Last year we started taking bits from the ‘team movie’ of The Princess Bride and twisting them to our own silliness. There…

  January 27, 2014
• bookbinding finished work

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote book

  This was a birthday gift for a huge fan of the radio show/book/movie Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There is one quote per each of the eight pages, arranged so that when the book is closed the words form a ‘word cloud’. The pages are laser-cut and etched acrylic plastic…

  September 5, 2013
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  obscure word book: volume 1, light edition

  For a while now I’ve been wanting to create a project using obscure or old-fashioned English words. I just wasn’t sure how I would do it. Enter the fabrication lab and the laser cutter! I decided to create a ‘book’ of laser cut and etched acrylic plastic sheets, sewn together…

  August 22, 2013
• finished work lettering sharpies

  another weekend with Sharpies

  Seven colors of Sharpie, including silver and copper. Did you know Sharpie makes non-oil/paint-based copper and gold colored markers now? They are just like the silver ones that have been around forever. Sweet!

  April 5, 2013
• finished work lettering sharpies

  a little Sharpie fun

    I made this for a friend’s birthday. Please pardon the poor lighting. I don’t have time to take a picture in the daylight. But good daylight is kind of hit or miss in England anyway… Seven colors of Sharpie marker, eight including the silver. On a brown paper envelope…

  October 25, 2012
• bookbinding finished work section sewings

  a new sketchbook

  I’ve been devising new Japanese stab binding designs for nearly two years, and my sketchbook has gone along with me on quite a few travels. And now…it’s full! So I made a new one. Here is my old friend… And my new one, with a bit more pizazz: Both binds…

  October 8, 2011
• finished work lettering

  chinese brush!

  So….this kind of calligraphy is much harder than it looks. But then again, you’re probably not supposed to do such drastic curves either. It was fun to smear ink around, but… I think I’ll stick to sharpies.

  September 13, 2011
• finished work lettering

  sharpie lettering

  Getting back into lettering…I’m a touch on the rusty side. I like parts of this, but others could have been better. As I draw more I think I’m going to back off sentences and just focus on one word designs for a while.

  September 12, 2011