kapitza

Kapitza, an independent Design company based in East London, has published a gorgeous book Geometric, that is a 336 page bible of pattern illustrations, 264 to be exact. The book comes with a CD, which includes 100 pattern fonts.

Get a copy here.

[Images and text extracted from kapitza]

Colette Fu Sansan

An awe-inspiring series of 21 photographic photo pop-up books, bound in iris cloth, finished in 2004-shot at the provinceton art museum, by photographer and book artist, Colette Fu.

Stay as you are

A gorgeous animation from the Youtube posting of Kartoshka | Jen7, Tipografiya Murkevet team, from Israel.

A quick seach shows that Jen 7 is also Jenny M. (flickr) and Be Happy Now (etsy).

Sting book

This is so simple yet very effective. One of those why-didn't-I-think-of-it things!

This clip is taken off the Youtube posting of Children's Publications Co. (CPL), a publisher from Taiwan that focuses on children's books, videos and merchandises. I do not think this is one of their books, but it is really good of them to share.

Paper Studio - Glueing

Please watch this even before starting. We always believe in good practise for all creative processes. This video is really fundamental glueing "etiquette" to develop before even starting! Once again, Cindy from Paper Studio delivers her presentation with absolute clarity.

Paper Studio - Book Binding

We are very inspired by our paper blogging in mein™ inspiration, so there is alot of excitement in researching paper processes and crafts for our own projects.

Cindy from Paper Studio has the best bookbinding videos! She is clear, concise, knows her stuff, and we are posting her clips here because we will be referring to her instructions constantly.

String Book

This is so simple yet very effective. One of those why-didn't-I-think-of-it things!

Keiko Koma

I just found the Taiwanese editon of the book Enjoy My Handmade Life, by Keiko Koma (ISBN 986-7039-02-5), which includes very useful information on the techniques to making rubber stamps! The book is filled with lots of great ideas and tips.

Keiko Koma works on rubber stamp crafts under the name komagomaya.

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