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Nakazora
'Nakazora' is a Buddhist term that has multiple meanings, including "the space between sky and earth; a state when the feet do not touch the ground; the center of the sky; the zenith." This combination of definitions and implications leads one to…
Things I have learned in my life so far
This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far...
With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in…
With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in…
Fade to gray
Color can be a journey. This book follows the journey from west to east, from suburban to urban, and from green to gray. Received Best in Show at the Democratic Book Exhibit at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair in 2008. 8 page accordion. Printed…
Pop-up now! : a juried exhibition of movable books : September 22-October 3, 2010, Portland, Oregon
Pop-Up Now! featured handmade artist books that pop-up, move, slide, twirl, whirl, light up, or even sound off. This juried exhibition of handmade movable artist books will be held at 23 Sandy Gallery in conjunction with the biennial conference of…
Cosmocopia : a novel
Frank Lazorg falls upon a strange new drug that promises to reinvigorate him as both man and artist. He is suddenly plunged into a world inhabited by monstrous parodies of humanity, living in a culture that bears a skewed resemblance to the world…
Not my enemy
The seventh chapbook in Booklyn's series, Not My Enemy exposes the realities of war through hard-hitting stories and poems by the Iraq War Veterans writing collective, the Warrior Writers. The collection is a rare glimpse into the hearts and thoughts…
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30% of Buffalo
Eighth in Booklyn's series of artists' chapbooks, Charmaine Wheatley's 30% of Buffalo addresses Buffalo, New York's astounding illiteracy rate by telling the stories of some of the creative and resourceful individuals who have sought help at Literacy…
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Specimen book
Every typeface and its style that is loaded onto my computer are cataloged in this small specimen book. The short but dramatic sample text “I’m Moving Out” is used to offer a tongue-in-cheek understanding of the voice of type design, as well as to…
Kokopelli
The image of Kokopelli was originally drawn by David Jenney ... Title-page calligraphy by Ann Miller. 46/60"--Colophon. UPB
Printed on a continuous strip, 248 x 20 cm., folded accordion style to form 11 page surfaces and attached at its ends to the…
Printed on a continuous strip, 248 x 20 cm., folded accordion style to form 11 page surfaces and attached at its ends to the…
Lexicon
Lexicon is a facsimile cloth edition of an antiquarian Latin-Greek dictionary [Graecum lexicon manuale, primum a Benjamine Hederico institutum. Londini, 1825] which the internationally celebrated South African artist William Kentridge (born 1954) has…
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Leaf from 12th century Koran
"From a Koran manuscript in Cufic characters. This rare example, though undated, is attributed by experts to the Twelfth Century, or earlier. Its…