workingworkingworking: NOMNOMNOM I hope you're hungry

I've been working on a post on handwriting analysis, but it's taking quite a while, so I thought in the mean time I'd make you a post of pretty things to tide you over. (You can eat them with your eyes.)

these two, by Joyce Rosenfeld and Thomas Allen are cool things done with books already in existence. I can't see the lamp things relating to anything I do, but the cutouts are something that I have had my coveting eye on for a while now, and if I can find an excuse I intend to have a play. On the otherhad, if I can find some old books and the courage to cut them, I'll jut do it and put it in this here workblog.

Elaine O Chu

Some practical book stitching Thinking this might be an option for binding, but it depends on how thick my book is, I'm not sure that I'll have enough pages.

Heather Lea Birdsall

Box book! This is so cute! I like the idea of having loose pages that you can hold and reorder. And I really like boxes. On the other hand, due to my intention to create a narrative, the ability to reorder would probably to inappropriate.

different book making ideas

booksboooksbooks

These all look like they're pretty basic, they just have bright, patterened colours.

At this stage my plan is to use embroidery on wallpapaer for my cover.

more book making ideas

Elaine O Chu

further book idea

I like the idea of having flaps. I'd like to see a picture of this book closed.

Rebecca Ward

This is that thing I was telling you about earlier!!!! I went trawling to try and find the blog it belonged to, but turns out it was in a real live book instead. This is where my current fascination with embroidered handwriting originated.

Amy Rubin Flett

and Alison Wilder

Neither of these are really book ideas but they're cool and book related

These are both Diem Chau, 'Grasp' and 'Float',and I know they don't really relate, but this is the last time I apologise for irrelevance. So very, very, very cool.

http://www.diemchau.com/

Joetta Maue, 'Afraid You Will Stop', 'Must Survive', 'Fucked Up and Flawed', and detail from 'In Working Thought'

these are some further embroidered handwriting examples, soon I will put up some of my own! There is just something so lovely about stitched handwriting, like calculated flaws.