Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Orchestrelle


cover is a 1920s advertisement for the Orchestrelle set upon a background of an 1800s manuscript of Ishtar


simple coptic

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Steamship


Cover is from an 1872 newspaper special of royal boats and their associated personalities. My favorite bookshop here in sheffield has tons and tons of these interesting old clippings and I now have a small stack of them waiting to be made into books


simple coptic

Friday, June 10, 2011

Night Sky



doubled over twisted link and kettle

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Let's Just Make It Work


would work well as a budget book cover methinks


doubled over twisted link and kettle

Monday, June 6, 2011

Trees in the wind


made with a friend, this is a closed spine book with various layered 3 signature bindings


it's nice end paper, no?

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Please




another twisted link and kettle

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Alice



background of nice gold/green brocade with a Mervyn Peake's Alice in the corner



Simple twisted link and kettle


ok, a confession. I've not really made any books for months...time, space, etc all conspire against me. I AM working on a massive autobiographical artist book though that is all crazy and ambitious and involves tons of turkish map folds...we'll see when that gets finished! haha.