Ruth Bleakley is a very talented book binder. Luckily, her tutorial for making these beautiful mini accordion books is simple enough even for the uninitiated! Ruth originally made these tiny books as gifts for her advanced bookmaking students after a particularly challenging project, but you don’t have to learn coptic stitch to try it out […]
I like reading, I like tiny things, and I definitely like food, so these edible books from Hungry Happenings caught my eye immediately. Between the silliness of snacking on teeny books and the fun of putting them together, I think these treats could definitely help soften the back-to-school blow! Head over to the site for […]
What a rad video Organizing the Bookcase by Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp is. I found this over on We Love Stop Motion. I see many hours drifting away into a stop-motion haze in my future, and I’m okay with that.
Rachel spotted this cool tutorial from Grathio labs. Illumination is provided by an LED strip, switched on or off by a whisker switch that detects the position of the cover. Mechanically dimmable by the simple act of opening or closing the cover at a wider or narrower angle.
From Parker Posey’s Mary, in Party Girl, to Batgirl — aka Barbara Gordon, head of Gotham City Public Library — to real-life Librarian Action Figure/ bibliophile Nancy Pearl, there are a lot of reasons why books are sexy. But you don’t need a librarian, or even the Dewey Decimal System, to fetishize over stacks. Grab […]
The work started a few weeks before my appearance. A phone call, after seeing the piece on my book in USA Today: “Would you be interested in being on The Today Show?” Of course. Then there’s a flurry of short emails: “What can you show our viewers in five minutes? Something fun, visual, and interesting?” They had a copy of the book and suggested “Brownies In An Orange.”
Third up in this month’s Design Studio series is San Francisco’s very own Chronicle Books, which boasts an abundance of bestselling titles over a broad range of topics, including art and design, food, fiction, travel, and children’s books, in addition to some fabulously playful stationary and journals. Designer Suzanne LaGasa was our gracious hostess, taking […]
