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Specimen book

Front cover of the Artist's Book 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…

Rain/Fall

Cover box and front cover of Rain/Fall standing up
8 x 7.75"; 20 pages. Letterpress printed and laser-cut at Small Craft Advisory Press, Florida State University. 9 bound volvelles. Printed on Legion Bamboo paper. Bound in red book cloth. Numbered.

Promotional statement: "Through laser-cut…

Cosmocopia : a novel

Cover box of Cosmocopia opened to reveal puzzle pieces and the book inside
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

Cover page of artist's book 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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Lexicon

Cover page of the Artist's Book Lexicon standing up
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…

The Faery Gardener: A Pagan Primer

cover, cover box, and the artists book fanned out The Faery Gardener: A Pagan Primer
"Anagram Press: ""Hearthstone Firetender's poetry tells the tale of modern witchcraft set in a Maine community garden; an overview of pagan spirituality (complete with gardening tips) conveyed through a story of growing kinship with a secret…

Modern Home & Garden

Artist's book Modern Home & Garden opened up
A tongue-in-cheek look at the values of modern urban life. A luxury condominium dwelling unfolds and grows from a colorful extending pop-up book whose text extols the virtues of triple-mint living while the garden book beside it opens in artificial…

Pop-up now! : a juried exhibition of movable books : September 22-October 3, 2010, Portland, Oregon

Cover page of the artist book Pop-Up Now!
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…

A Tale Told Twice

front cover of the artists book A Tale Told Twice
This book was printed on Johannot paper from Bulmer and Baskerville types. It was bound using linen cloths and Logan Elm handmade paper over boards

Conscious Living: Poems

front cover of the artists book Conscious Living: Poems
This chapbook of 12 poems by Opal Palmer Adisa ranges from prayers to passion over email to social justice. In 10 praying chants you'll feel like living in the moment (because you know you forget sometimes), with a gentle exhale of om. The title…