Links
The Book Arts Web is also the home of the Book-Arts List, a fantastic source of book making information. You can search the archives without signing up for the list. From the home page, click on "reference" for a list of useful articles, including tutorials.
The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild - on-line exhibitions, lists of workshops and lots of links.
Colophon - excellent on-line exhibitions. About halfway down the gallery page there are some individual artist's galleries. Lise Poirier uses metals in some of her books.
The Guild of BookWorkers - if you click on "Exhibits" you go to a list of online artist's books shows.
Dorothy Simpson Krause - Lovely nuanced artist's books.
Lisa Kokin - playful artist's books, also sculpture and installations.
Ron Pippen - Gallery 8 has amazing altered books - very dense with lots of found stuff added. The other galleries appear to be all assemblage.
Shanna Leino - Very nice bound books, some have bone covers, some have metal covers. She also sells lovely bone folders.
Judy Barrass - Some great artist's books - be sure to see the drawing section as well.
Calligraphy, Lettering Art and Artist Books - Mostly calligraphy, there is a nice page of annotated links and an Artist Book Gallery (which includes my work).
Andrea Dezso - Amazingly detailed one-of-a-kind artist's books, drawings, film.
Ed Hutchins' books - Also a tunnel book slide show.
Jade Pegler - Jade works with paper and textiles. Sometimes she makes books, sometimes her sculptures make me think about what books are, besides containers of words.
Rae Trujillo - Funny and engaging artist's books.
Wire Edge Binding
Daniel Kelm developed wire edge binding. This site has some fascinating videos. He teaches at the Garage Annex School in Massachusetts.
Lezbag has two wonderful wire edge bound books on her blog, here, and here.
I have a blog entry on my a wire edge bound book here and here is a series of flickr photos that show an accordion fold test I did.
Zines
I have begun to collect zines as "research" for some books I would like to make. Here are a few I like. They are all visually oriented.
Fiji Island Mermaid Press Book of the Month Club - For $25 you can get 12 little books from Marc Snyder. Every one is humorous and makes you think.
All this is Mine - Sugene makes little books filled with collage, her thoughts on various things and a lot of personality. Some also have sample bits of interesting papers, foldouts and envelopes full of things.
anatomic air press - I have "small tasks of labour suit her slender bones." The writing and collage works together in mysterious ways.
Medieval and Earlier Books
DScriptorium - devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of medieval manuscripts. Good list of links to other web sites with images of manuscripts.
Illuminating the Renaissance - from the Getty Museum (same title - different books).
Schoyen Collection - 720 manuscripts spanning 5000 years. Pages with brief descriptions and thumbnails make it easy to find what you're looking for.
Metalwork
Mike Yager - wonderful mechanical spectacles, also jewelry.
Book Clasps - Joycelyn Merchant's clasps require only simple metalworking skills.
Arthur Gansen's Machines - the ones with the little hand cranks remind me of Paul Klee.
Jessica Joslin - she makes animals with skulls, bones and brass found objects. This description does not do the work justice.
Ganoksin - a great resource for metal artists.
Supplies
Supplier Database from Product Realization Lab - do you need fabric, metal and paint? Check this list. Mostly stores in the San Francisco bay area, but many have websites.
List of tools you need to make jewelry or small metal objects. Includes a description of how each tool is used so you can decide if you need it now. From the Ganoksin site.
Volcano Arts - this is a huge site with metalworking and book making tools, plus there are tutorials, and lots of photos of finished projects. When I emailed to ask her a question she was very helpful.
Stampeaz - supplies for linoleum and soft block carving. I got a refund on shipping when she was able to get everything in one box!
Magazines
Book Arts Classified - Online publication containing ads for an assortment of books, paper, equipment, and supplies; as well as listings for conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and calls for entry.
Letter Arts Book Club, Inc.- John Neal's web site. Purchase book-making books, supplies, or a subscription to Bound and Lettered, orginally Tabellae Ansata.
Miscellaneous
A mystery site - It looks like a large collection of dried animals, but most are too fantastic to be real. If you click on a link that has a number in the title you come to a map of a building. Click on a room and you'll see the collection for that room. It turns out this is an online collection of creatures “curated” by Hajime Emoto. Here's a blog post with an explanation.
Golden Paint's page of tips for painting on metal - useful for my Make a metal book tutorial.
Zymoglyphic Museum - My husband's web site. This is the strangest museum site on the internet. It includes a book made from a rusty piece of metal that suggests a book cover, with pages made of leaves.
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - A huge collection of maps. They enlarge nicely.
Epact - Scientific instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. These are so wonderful and amazing. They enlarge nicely, too.
Spark Museum - Vintage Radio and Scientific Apparatus. I love these old devices.
Reviews
Chico News and Review - a reproduction of a review for Conceptually Bound, April 19, 2001.
Mountain View Voice - A reproduction of a review for the Conceptually Bound 3 show in 2008.
Steppin' Out - some publicity for the Book Arts Jam - with my dinosaur book, "7 Extinction Events."
Bay Area Book and Metal Organizations
The Bay Area Book Artists are a fantastic group of people. Check out the gallery. They present the Book Arts Jam every fall.
Pacific Center for the Book Arts - Located in San Francisco. They have lots of classes, an active community of book artists.
Silicon Valley Open Studios - Annual event, first three weekends in May. A chance to visit artists in their natural habitat. My husband, of the Zymoglyphic Museum, and I usually participate, as Studio 19.
Pinhole Photography
Taking pinhole photos amazes me. It's just a box, a tiny hole and some film or photo paper. Magic!
My flickr matchbox pinhole camera instructions.
My flickr set of pinhole photographs.
World Wide Pinhole Photography Day - Every April people all over the world take pinhole photographs.
And there is a flickr group for World Wide Pinhole Day.
Photographs of negatives are a good alternative to scanning your pinhole photos. Of course there is a flickr group devoted to this.
Al's Pix instructions for making a matchbox pinhole camera. You can use 35mm film in this one.
Matchbox Pinhole - photosharing group on flickr. Includes some discussion about the cameras.
The Pinhole Gallery - Gallery, forum, how to make camera out of black foamcore, exposure guide.
Minty Fresh Pinhole Camera - How to make an altoids tin into a pinhole camera that takes 35mm film.
Oatmeal Box Pinhole Photography - make a pinhole camera with an oatmeal box. Detailed instructions for both the camera and the pinhole itself. Uses 4 x 5 photo paper for film.
Madmolecule has a nice magnetic attachment to a tripod for a camera made in an empty mini-DVD cassette.
Catherine Heyman - Her pinhole photos are very atmospheric, there are also some whimsical tin toys (dessins enfents). I believe "stenope" is pinhole in French.
Gameboy Camera Photography
Flickr Gameboy Camera photo pool - a nice group of people, wide range of approaches.
Ironic Sans has a blog post on making color photos with the Gameboy camera. It requires four filters and some photoshop expertise.
tapir.com - Gameboy Camera Gallery and Tutorial - an online book - AirStrike - and a nice selection of gameboy camera photos.
