Links
Contemporary Books
The Book Arts Web. 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 "Guild Exhibits" you go to a list of online artitst's books shows.
The WilliamBlake Archives - lots of images. When you're viewing an image there are "text and image options" at the bottom of the page. Choose "enlargement" for a large image.
Wellesley College Library - Women in the Book Arts - book arts at Wellesley College.
Jody Alexander's artist's books. I have long admired Jody's books on the web. When I saw them at the Book Arts Jam, I realized photos don't do them justice. They are tactile and appealing. Check out "This Is My Song for Samson," under Artists' Books.
l.o.s.t. - a digital book. I thought there would be more on the internet by now, but still can't find many. This one is interesting because it's so interactive.
The Wooden Library in Alnarp - has some wonderful books made of the wood of the tree they describe. The spine is the bark of the tree, and inside are the lichens and mosses from the same tree. From the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences web site.
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.
Angela Petsis - artist's books and toy camera photography.
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.
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.
anatomic air press - I have "small tasks of labour suit her slender bones." The writing and collage works together in mysterious ways.
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.
PodPost - wonderful zines, merit badges (!!!), and other goodies. The Bento Box is wonderful - alas it is sold out right now (11/10/07).
Medieval and Earlier Books
Paper, Leather, Clay & Stone - from the Cornell University Library - Unusual bindings and lovely illuminations. Includes a palm leaf book, a jade book and a medieval gradual.
Wallace Library - the image collection includes images of 51 leaves from medieval manuscripts.
Aberdeen Bestiary - the entire bestiary, produced in England around 1200, is included in this web site. Also information about techniques used. From this page go to the Table of Contents, and scroll down to find a link to the bestiary.
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 - the British Library has some great images of Flemish manuscript painting. Click on "time line" to see the thumbnails.
Another 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.
dog eared magazine - a wonderful magazine about the book arts, by Kerrie Carbary. She is also selling wonderful rubber stamp alphabets and computer fonts used in "dog eared magazine."
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 - I believe it's in Japanese or Chinese. It looks like a large collection of dried animals, but some 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.
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
Mountain View Voice - A reproduction of a review for the Conceptually Bound 3 show in 2008.
Chico News - A reproduction of a review for the Conceptually Bound show in 2001.
Steppin' Out - some publicity for the Book Arts Jam - with my dinosaur book, "7 Extinction Events."
Bay Area Organizations
Bay Area Book Artists - an amazing organization, founded by Jone Manoogian and run entirely by volunteers. They have monthly meetings in Palo Alto and a class session at Foothill college once a month. They organize book arts exhibitions and the Book Arts Jam in the fall.
Pacific Center for the Book Arts - Located in San Francisco. They have lots of classes, an active community of book artists.
The Metal Arts Guild - a nice group of people interested in many forms of metal-working.
Silicon Valley Open Studios - Annual event, first three weekends in May. A chance to visit artists in their natural habitat. My husband, Mr. Zymoglyphic, and I usually participate, as Studio 19.
Pinhole Photography
Pinhole photos are very interesting in themselves, I also love them for collage.
World Wide Pinhole Photography Day - Every April people all over the world take pinhole photographs.
World Wide Pinhole Day. Flickr group. Scroll down to see links to other flickr pinhole photography groups.
Al's Pix Stuff - nice photography blog. This link goes directly to his instructions for making a matchbox pinhole camera. You can use ordinary 35 mm color print 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
Coffee Can 4 x 5 Pinhole Camera - make a camera with an ordinary coffee can.
Oatmeal Box Pinhole Photography - made 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.
Catherine Heyman - Her pinhole photos are very atmospheric, there are also some whimsical tin toys (dessins enfents). I believe "stenope" is pinhole in French.
