A Little Book of Hello

I mentioned my workshop at Kings Place interact weekend in a former post and here's an update....

A Little Book of Hello showcases the imaginative and creative work made at my workshop held at the King's Place Interact weekend in July 2011.  Each participant was invited to create a two page spread illustrating a country of their choice and passing on the greeting 'hello' in a chosen language.  Those who took part ranged in age from 3 to adult and represented diverse nationalities as seen in the art work in the book.

As is often the case in my creative workshops, I was surprised and inspired by the participants interpretation of the activity and choices made.  The vast majority chose to represent the country of their heritage including England, Jamaica, Poland, Ireland, and Turkey and the book includes one holiday destination - Greece.

I have hand bound A Little Book of Hello using a traditional Japanese stab binding technique and the book is to be archived at King's Place, London.

15 Queen Street

There is so much creativity going on in my town and this well designed blog, managed by Alex Davis from 15 Queen Street, presents a selection of the events and highlights.  Check it out....

Creating a commission

Working on a lovely illustration commission for Wine Boutique.  

Very exciting meeting!

I have just returned from a very exciting meeting - discussing super ideas and workshops for 2012 :-)  Watch this space....

Fantastic Creatures Big Draw 2011: Here are the photos!!!!!!

Fantastic Creatures Big Draw 2011: Here are the photos!!!!!!: Click here to view all the images of the event. Thank you to photographer Jonathan Doyle for surreptitiously taking this set of great sh...

Colchester Institute bookbinding workshop

I spent a fantastic day running a bookbinding workshop with art and design degree students studying at Colchester Institute.

Each student hand folded and stitched multiple sections to house in their hand made hard bound cover.

Here are some images of work in progress and the finished items...

Colchester Institute bookbinders - hello!

This post is intended for my Colchester Institute bookbinding workshop participants - but will be useful to anyone with a passion for finding out more about the wonderful world of Book Arts!

 

Here are some interesting links....

For bookbinding supplies visit http://www.hewit.com/

 

For luxury papers visit http://www.johnpurcell.net/

To view and read about amazing artists' books browse or visit the V&A at http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/artists-books/

Discover the book arts bookshop near Old Street tube http://www.bookartbookshop.com/docs/contents.htm

Read the Book Arts Newsletters past and present here http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm

and check out the book arts books in Colchester Library!

Congratulations on your amazing hand bound books :-)