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Continue reading →: a meeting doodle
I concentrate better during Skype teleconference calls if I’m drawing. Here’s the latest: ‘logos,’ from the Greek word, not the English term for branding.
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: UK letters #10
Detail of a plaque displaying C.S. Lewis’ poem “What the Bird Said Early in the Year” along Addison’s Walk in Magdalen College, Oxford
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Continue reading →: The theory of japanese stab binding
…or at least how I understand it. I’ve had many questions since I began posting my own Japanese stab bind designs: about how I create them, the thought process behind the designs and sewing mechanisms, the tools I use, etc. I’ll break down my personal process in another post; for…
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Continue reading →: font progress
A sample of how my text font is coming along. Still editing capitals and letter spacing…and next week, I’ll be adding numbers as well. For my japanese stab binding readers, I promise that my next post will be either a tutorial or a new bind!
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Continue reading →: UK letters #5
Oops, my numbers got out of order. Anyway, this is a hand-engraved brass plate in a chapel at Trinity College in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Check out the ffi ligature, third line from the bottom!
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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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