experiment with binding hardbound books

Johnathan found these neat old covers when we took a trip to Pettingell Book Bindery

So I made him sketchbooks! I've never bound hardbound books before, and it seems like it's hard to find clear directions on how to do it. But hooray internets!

I generally got the gist and yeah.. I think these turned out pretty well considering. There's some thing's I'd like to do differently, of course. The orange one was the original guinea pig.

Here you can see the 'tails' of the spines, and the signatures. The stitching was the easy part, the gluing- the hard.

Mock Pitch Book

This is a mock pitch book project I did for my portfolio class.

spoke too soon...

http://www.vimeo.com/11644977

I had to add credits to the Junkyard Jousting, Cris Schenck ( I don't know if I spelled that right) wants to put it in the spring show.
Anywho, same old stuff, with boring credits at the end, and my name strategically placed last. Ha! :)

More posts coming....

Junkyard Jousting-done, finished, i'm not dealing with it any more.

here it is with music
http://www.vimeo.com/11340157

new book i bound yesterday with recycled paper.
i think it'd make a good summer journal. : )

video files

hey, how do I upload a video file on the blog? (so i don't have to do it through vimeo, since they take forever to upload a file)

I made thaumatropes this week:

And a painting of the Nasturtium growing under the fence in our front yard: