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Continue reading →: experimental graphemes
Every work day I am going to try to post a new letterform drawing. These will not be worked in the computer for now, so these are photographs from my sketchbook.
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Continue reading →: new binding experiments
I tried a few new binding techniques, one straight from Keith Smith’s book, one from the book that I modified, and a stab binding totally made up on my own. I also experimented with adding glass beads to the binding. I was a little frustrated with how the modified pattern…
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Continue reading →: Shifting-baseline Syndrome
This past week I read a book called “Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators” by William Stolzenburg. It discusses the idea of natural habitats being affected all the way down to the microscopic level because of the removal of large…
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Continue reading →: Cycles of Art Nouveau
So, I was going to post pictures of the books that I designed for my last art history project…but I forgot and turned them in without snapping any pictures first. Oh well, here is the cover design. ::edit:: Here is the shot of the book, finally!
Hello,
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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