Following up on my post of the other day about juror awards from the biannual Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair, here’s another winner: Katie Baldwin of Queen Anne’s Revenge Press in Philadelphia. The book to the left is The River Parcenta. Her website is here. Even better (at least to me) are these pictures of her studio, taken by her intern Sarah Alfarhan.
I got a kick out of this clever Overdue Book Calendar in Lauren Hunt’s auntjune Etsy store the other day. She says
Every month of this 2011 calendar has space for you to write in 13-15 library books you have checked out along with their due dates. Circle those due dates on the calendar and give yourself an extra reminder! And you can save it, to prove to people that you can read.
Last year was the first year since I began making books that I didn’t attend a handmade book fair. But happily the Fine Press Book Association blog has been reporting on many of the ones I missed. Recently they posted the juror awards from the biannual Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair last November. The winner of the Award for Artistic Excellence was Sarah Bryant and her book Biography. She says
“Biography” is an exploration of the chemical elements in the human body and the roles they play elsewhere in the world… Each spread is a diagram describing the elements as they exist on the periodic table, the earth’s crust, a variety of man-made weapons, medicines and tools, sea water, etc. Each element is identified as a specific colored rectangle and these rectangles continue through the diagrams. These diagrams sometimes difficult to decode, and toward the end are interrupted by blind stamped organic shapes and pressure printing.
The letterpress printing in the spread on above looks intriguing! She also sells the folios as prints. Take a look at her website and etsy shop.
Trollop Press is selling ink in tubes. They cost less than a pound can of Van Son ink and are easier to keep from drying up. Or, as the description of the ink says “Ink in a tube means no skins & no waste!” Unfortunately they aren’t carrying many colors, but I’m going to check there the next time I need ink.
 The websites Serious Eats and Instructables have held a Pi Day Pie Contest the past couple of years. (Pi Day commemorates the mathematical constant π — 3.14159… — and is held on March 14.) That’s the winner from 2010 to the left. A friend gave me a Pi pie plate several years ago, and I’ve been making a special pie in it every March since then. While many of the entries for past years have nothing to do with Pi (just pie), I liked this One-Hundred-Digit pie
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And especially the ingredients for Pie to Seven Decimal Points, 3.1415926:
In honor of Pi Day (3/14)
3 different fruits
1 basic pie crust recipe
4 ingredients in the crumb topping
1 nutty ingredient
5 unique layers (bottom crust, three fruits, crumb topping)
9 added flavors in the fruit layers (3 in each)
2 ingredients in common in all the layers (butter and sugar)
6 (or 7) ingredients in the pie crust recipe, depending on whether you count water as an ingredient, and whether you round up (the next digit is 5.)
This year on their website, Curiosity, a marketing group in Portland, is featuring a monthly paper toy calendar that you can print and construct. That’s February to the left, with a groundhog popping out of his hole. Download it here and also sign up to get them emailed to you.
