The Fiji Island Mermaid Press is hosting an online exhibition of artist’s books that visitors can download, print, trim, fold and cut to make miniature books. To the left is seed toss, trench sent by Warren Craghead III.
And after you take a look, you’d be correct in assuming my delight in finding Adele Henderson’s downloadable Travel Map of TONAWANDA New York, about emissions from a nearby Tonawanda Coke plant.
 An architect by training, Valerie Goodwin got interested in quilts when teaching architectural design classes at Florida A&M University. Her students investigated parallels between architecture and quilting as an introduction to ideas about composition, ordering systems, color and pattern. Her quilts are a continuation of that investigation, through the use of collage, layering, transparency, density and improvisation.The quilt to the right is called “City Grid II” and is 39×46. She’s got lots of other examples on her website. |
Thanks to everyone who entered my Pi day giveaway! The winner of my artist’s book Pi is tulibri, who writes a book-ish blog in Germany.
April is National Poetry Month so keep your eye out for another giveway next month.
Here’s to my favorite irrational number! Go here for a recipe for a Pi-Tini with 3.14 ounces of vodka that get shaken 3.14 times with a bit of vermouth and poured over Pi ice.
According to wikipedia the first Pi Day celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces and then eating fruit pies.
Two more things to celebrate: the Pi minute today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m. And, as Pi is approximately 22/7, Pi Approximation Day on July 22.
| Ebon Heath makes mobile sculptures out of type that are “conceived as explorations in giving typography a physical presence away from the confines of the page.” You can see more of them on his website.
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Annually since 2004, the Bookmarks: Infiltrating the Library System project has distributed bookmarks made by book artists to help promote their work and to get the public involved with artists’ books. Participants make an edition of 100 signed and numbered bookmarks to give away. The bookmarks are distributed to galleries, bookstores and libraries around the world.
The project is organized by the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of West England in Bristol, and they’ve got great documentation — with a gallery of all the bookmarks — on their website. Appropriately I have it bookmarked and have been watching the project for several years.
The bookmark to the left is by Mary Marsh.
