8. Indie Publishing by Ellen Lupton // I got to flip through this one in a gift shop, and it looks really cool. It talks about all kinds of independent publishing—from "real" publishers to handmade books.
9. Colour Mania // This looks like a fun design book. I really like the colorful cover, and from Amazon's preview, the inside pages look filled with design inspiration.
10. Little Book of Letterpress by Charlotte Rivers // Another book I got to look at in person while shopping recently. The cover is actually letterpressed (whoa!), and the book itself is full of pretty letterpress items, organized by company.
11. Little Book of Screenprinting by Caspar Williamson // Haven't seen this one in person, but if it's anything like it's letterpress relative, it's bound to be very cool.
12. How to Make Books by Esther K. Smith // I found this one at a gift shop recently, too, and it's really excellent. The cover is made of cardboard which is way cool, and almost any book about making books is lots of fun.
13. Fingerprint No. 2 // I don't know much about this book or the first version, but it's about using handmade elements in design which I think is a neat concept.
14. Fingerprint // The first in a series of two about handmade design elements. I love the idea of not only using the computer for design, and these books seem to support that.
So do any of these books sound especially interesting to you?
2 comments:
Wow, what great books!! I've been looking at a lot of artist books lately myself (my next big project is to make one!), so the examples in the fingerprint books were fun to see.
You ought to look up Victoria Macey... she's a graphic designer and has a really neat handmade book that I think you'd like :)
I'm so not an artist, but I love these books! One thing I am is a bibliophile, and although I did a lot of book repairs back when in college when I worked part-time in the periodicals section of the university library, for some reason I never thought about making my own books. The one above titled "How to Make Books" caught my eye, and now I'm itching to go find it at my local B&N. Thanks for sharing!
Salut,
Marjorie
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