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Continue reading →: two new sketchbooks
I took a couple of my japanese stab binding experiments and expanded them into new sketchbooks for me to fill up with randomness. I just can’t buy sketchbooks or journals anymore now that I can make them…and I seriously need more practice with a drill press. eesh. Yes, I realize…
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Continue reading →: a quote on poetry from “The Crystal Goblet” by Beatrice Warde
Plain talk is like water, and good prose is like a fermentation – whether it be sparkling light wine or a rich old burgundy, much of its making was left to nature. But poetry is that much more artificial thing, a sublimation of essences, which requires special equipment, skill –…
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Continue reading →: book sewing frame
A year ago a friend gave me some scraps of cherry wood left over from one of his class projects. I have since used them in various art projects of my own; the latest being this book sewing frame. There are several techniques of bookbinding that require a frame. However…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding: lintels, fishnets, marionette, quilts, prisms, and hourglasses
These binding experiments are done on foam core. I find it a lot easier to punch holes in foam core, as well as pull out mistakes. I have already taken one of these test patterns and applied it to a real project. It turned out pretty nicely, if I do…
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Continue reading →: an quote about the state of book design
…from the article “The Rabbi of Book Design: An Interview with Scott-Martin Kosofsky” on the AIGA website. “But books (and print in general) have lost their pride of place. Book publishers, a group nearly always behind the curve, have failed to grasp that their online counterparts spend a lot of…
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Continue reading →: an article about how fake money can still be beautiful
I read this article posted on the AIGA website yesterday, and the last few paragraphs really resonated with me. It was written by a collector of ‘notgeld’, or fake money printed in Germany after WWII. The country was so poor different towns and cities printed their own money to use…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding: arrows
I made myself another sketchbook last Thursday, killing time before a meeting. I feel that I’ve figured this method out pretty well, and I enjoy figuring out new designs. If someone else is doing this, I haven’t seen it in any of my research. I like how the arrows turned…
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Continue reading →: rethinking the shoebox
I don’t know much about package design, but I enjoy keeping up with the innovative products showcased on thedieline.com. This latest post blew me away…the redesign of a shoebox! The ramifications of how much material and energy this new design will save is crazy. Here is the full article.
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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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