Posted in book arts on Feb 18th, 2008
My first assignment for my advanced book arts class – making a clamshell box – is done and this week we moved on to the next step: making paste papers which will eventually become covers for a perfect bound book we’ll be making to fit inside the box. I’ve posted a few pics of the [...]
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Posted in events on Feb 17th, 2008
This month is Japan culture and hyperculture month at the Kennedy Center. Seeing Japanese robots firsthand was pretty cool, especially the baby seal robot used for therapy and healing, but the highlight was definitely meeting Shin Tanaka, paper toy artist, and seeing him build one of his famous t-boys.
If you aren’t familiar [...]
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Posted in 'zines, drawings, news on Feb 11th, 2008
It’s been over a year since the first issue of “Hello My Name Is” was published as a small run of 16 limited edition, digital and letterpress 4? x 4? ‘zines about people’s names and how they got them. Finally, the drawings and name stories for issue #2 have been finalized and all that’s left [...]
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