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Continue reading →: Type@Cooper…day 2
Digitizing what I sketched yesterday. First thing this morning I modified some of the forms, which is why the digital version doesn’t look quite the same. Not sure what we’re doing next…but I think eventually there will be serifs and lowercase letters? Aaaaand I just realized that I made a…
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Continue reading →: Type@Cooper…day 1
Day one…learning how to draw the ‘spines’ of the ancient Roman letters from the xerox sheet. I like my O! We will be digitizing these this week. I think.
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Continue reading →: NYC letters
I’m in New York City for the next 5 weeks to take a class in type design. Hopefully I’ll be able to post images of what I work on during class, but if not (or until then) I’m going to post a picture a day of type/letters that I’ve found…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: chevrons
I’m still playing around with how to best portray the top and the underside of each binding pattern. The gray arrows indicate the direction on the underside of the book block. **click on the image to enlarge** EXIT = needle pointed DOWN and ENTER = needle pointed UP ===== enter…
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Continue reading →: adding leather: a first experiment
I recently managed to get my hands on around 8 lbs of shoe leather scraps. I have a couple of different ideas of what I might do with it. It was weird to sew. The scrap I chose to use for this book had some flaws, but it was soft…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: marionette
I would call this tutorial more intermediate than arrows. Mainly because it isn’t simple in how the bind crosses the spine and requires more finger-coordination. As I was drawing my diagram and thinking about my method of sewing this bind, I realized that there might be a second, somewhat easier…
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Continue reading →: TOMS
A friend and I have been meaning to each decorate a pair of TOMS shoes for months now. We finally managed it today! Seven hours later, here are what mine look like. If you can believe it, they are even brighter in person! We used sharpie markers.
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I’m Becca!
Welcome to Becca Making Faces, a blog that started out as a grad school project and has become a place where I post experiments in Japanese stab binding.
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