#book arts

[improbabledreams900]

I scribed all the spells my wizard learned in our last D&D campaign!

#D&D #my art #calligraphy #d&d art #mine #book arts #long post #grimoire

[lucybellwood]

hi sorry s'cuse me but were NONE OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS???

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT

EGADDDDDDD

THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES

THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE

i can't

#illuminated manuscript #goth as fuck #medieval #illumination #calligraphy #book arts #wowowowow

[cyclesprefectpress]

[image description: photos of The Disco Elysium Tarot, printed letterpress in an edition of one from handset lead type and linoleum blocks. It is a complete 78-card tarot deck printed primarily with white text and illustrations on medium grey cardstock, in a custom dark grey hardcase box with a hand-marbled orange and yellow endsheet. The backs of the deck are decorated with an illustration of a sprig of may bells, and a quote from Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns: "None of this matters at all." The interpretive meaning of each card is expressed on its face with a small excerpt of the game's text. The Minor Arcana are divided into four suits of Harry's Attributes—Motorics, Psyche, Physique, Intellect—and each card in that suit is a quote from a skill under that Attribute. The Major Arcana are assigned quotes from other sources like NPC dialogue or Thought Cabinet problems & solutions. Pips for the Minors are counted with diamonds like the game's skill points; each actor or title is printed with their in-game color, but made shiny & metallic with bronzing powder.

each piece of text was set in handset lead type, assembled from individual pieces for each letter and space, and printed relief on a chandler & price clamshell press. end description.]

🎊🎊 Desert Bus for Hope starts for 2023 on nov. 11th and i have made an item this year for the craftalong that will be up for giveaway between 6am-12pm on Monday the 13th! 🎊🎊 It is a full tarot deck based on Disco Elysium and it has several pieces of my heart & soul in it but NOT my blood because i put a bandaid right on that :) donations for this and any other auctions & giveaways for Desert Bus go to Child's Play Charity.

notes: i did not make a whole new interpretive model for this deck, apologies, that was outside of my scope. it's generally compatible with a Rider-Waite model, with Motorics for Wands, Psyche for Cups, Physique for Swords, and Intellect for Disks. (full distribution of text listed by card, linked below. any spelling or transcription errors you find there, i promise i fixed them in print—that's copied from my digital mockup which was copied hastily from screenshots.)

i also do not track hours on these kinds of projects because that way lies madness, but i will say: i knew how much time it would take to print it. it was a lot but i was not worried about it, i know how to print. i was very worried about how much time it would take to absorb the sheer amount of text, and distribute it across the cards, and really get an array i believe in. i was right to worry, and i have absolutely had a few anxious nightmares about discovering the Perfect excerpt that should've gone in and i missed it, and the suit of Intellect made me want to lay on the floor a few times, but still! i believe there's many versions of a deck you could make from this game and this one is a good one.

i think the Minors fit really well with the double-edged sword of Harry's skills, their advice, their priorities. the circular way the Fool-World assignment works out makes me smile every time. The colors on The Star came out so nice. i think Justice fulfills some of my favorite things about Kim's character & purpose in the story. i worried sometimes that editing to such short clips would lose too much of the politics of the game, but of course you can't really take them out and they're especially present in the Majors—the Devil and the Hierophant, The Star and The Sun. i've wanted to design a tarot deck for years and i love this game deeply and i let this idea percolate for a few months and it never stopped making me laugh so here it is, & given a beautiful purpose :)

i also literally could not have done this without xyrilin's Disco Reader and the FAYDE On-Air Playback Experiment to navigate the dialogue and skill checks. Really couldn’t have tied the whole concept & colophon in its final bow without the Disco Reader :)) thank thank thank, they're so fun to investigate that it was honestly very difficult to focus on my task instead of veering off and exploring every branch in an extremely disorganized way.

actual printing went well honestly, very few problems! i think that means i'm getting pretty good at planning one of these monstrosities, although perhaps it also means i'm not challenging myself enough. hmm. no that's silly there's 78 ding dang cards in this thing. anyway the drop & replace formes worked well, no registration issues. mum convinced me to overprint another half a deck's worth of cards when I was printing backs & borders and of course she was right :/ there were a handful of cards that actually had better line breaks and fewer lines total in true type than in the digital mockup, so i needed all the spares I had to put those new short quotes into the appropriate border breakage. next time i will not question her.

handset in Garamond, Eden Bold, and secret Neuland.

WIP : full text card assignments

bonus photo of the kind of trash notes i always take to plan things like how many borders were printed with space for short excerpts vs long excerpts, and how many of those are majors vs. minors, because they have a slightly different frame at the bottom edge, etc.

[image description: they are truly garbage notes, i tell you. half of it is written at angles to the other half, many numbers in the math problems are not labeled, mistakes are scribbled over. it gets me there but it doesn't look pretty. end description.]

#desert bus 2023 #desert bus for hope #disco elysium #book arts #letterpress #letterpress printing #handset type #printmaking #db2023 #finished works #long post

[simply-sithel]

because he's a poet by red0aktree [link]

Bound for the @renegadepublishing Tiny Book Bang. Typeset by @mythrilthread. Bookcloth hand dyed by @epitomereally for her Everything is Relative to You project... and I think she gave me the end pages as well...? Edges are buff 'n rub wax.

#this was done and sent away back in early August... #little book #book arts #TINY BOOKS BANG 2023 #I really liked that bevel to the edge of the cover... #bookbinding #wish I'd had time to enqueue this post sooner... it feels so far away now... #exchange

[mcromwell]

Here's what the Trash Book has been looking like lately. Always changing!

#art #traditional art #sketchbook #Trash Book #bookbinding #book arts #weird book #tome #grimoire

[excineribusbooks]

The Vienna Game by @paratactician

My finished contribution to the @fandomtrumpshate craft bazaar! Honestly, this may be my favorite typeset I've done to date, combined with one of the more elaborate cutout designs I've made in a while. (I learned the hard way that it's time for me to change the blade on my Silhouette cutter, lol. Protip: if it's chewing up the paper/cloth on skinny elements like the pixellated raindrops + puddle here, get a new, sharper blade!) It included all the 80s cyberspace nonsense/vaporwave aesthetic I could cram into one book, some intensely sparkly decorative paper that popped against the black bookcloth exactly how I hoped it would, and yet another excellent last-minute endpaper find courtesy of the Renegade Retreat.

As I've gotten more proficient at typesetting, I've found I really love creating visual markers for POV swaps -- in this case, changing the drop caps and scene dividers depending on whether the chapter was from Sollux or Terezi's POV:

And of course, I have to give a huge shout-out to @isozyme and @roach-works for letting me include their art! (Alas, I forgot to snap a picture of roachpatrol's art before sending off the book, but it's this A+++ piece right here.)

As always, thank you so much to beanutbutter for their incredible generosity during FTH, and to the whole FTH team for running the auction! If you haven't had the chance to read "The Vienna Game" yet, you can at the link above.

#book arts #bookbinding #fanbinding #homestuck #fandom trumps hate #ex cineribus books

[brisling]

This work is a handmade copy of a semi-ubiquitous notebook from Singapore mainly used by primary school students. The first edition, self-published by the artist was originally tediously hand drawn copy by copy. This second edition is now slightly less tediously reproduced with the Risograph, with every page still based on a hand drawn original. In the artist’s words, “this exercise book is fully functional if you do not mind someone else’s hands with you while you write”.

Exercise Book by Catherine Hu, 2022

#love this A Lot #first edition entirely hand drawn people are out here doing the wildest shit #book arts

[glitterchloroform]

Goldfinch on Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

#fore edge painting #fore-edge painting #the goldfinch #book arts #my things #it's handmade gold watercolour on it! #I wanna post the vid too but gotta edit it a little

[hclib]

Remembering Jody Williams, 1956-2023

In August, I met with Minneapolis book artist Jody Williams. We gossiped about other artists, talked about tiny things, and she shared stories about her life-long love of books and her chaotic 1960s childhood, growing up near Chicago with five siblings. But the real reason she was visiting was to sell old work from her archive. I've been buying Jody's work for the Hennepin County Library's Book Arts and Fine Press Collection for over a decade, but didn't have any of her early work and wanted to better document her legacy as a book artist. She brought with her nearly all of her books--work spanning over thirty years as a book artist--and it all fit in just one box. Jody's work is tiny.

She had the first editioned artists' book she ever made, her first book housed in a box, her first book under the name Flying Paper Press, her first book printed in her own studio, a book about phobias, an alphabet bestiary jack-in-the-box, books which melded her training in printmaking and metalworking, and her semi-annual periodical devoted to tiny things, among others. What they all had in common was their diminutive size, Jody-designed font, and impeccable precision. We now have 20 of Jody Williams' books in our collection.

Jody died on October 17, 2023, after a long battle with cancer. She will be missed and will be remembered fondly for her contributions to book and printing arts in the Twin Cities.

Jody's books will be on display at Minneapolis Central Library starting in mid-December 2023 through February 2024.

#Jody Williams #Book Arts and Fine Press Collection #artists' books #book arts #book artists #printmaking

[etherati]

My first bind for another writer! This is Whiter Fang by Doubledog, in which Trevor and Sypha are a hunter and scholar without their soldier, Alucard is a wolf that isn't a wolf, and literally everyone knows what's going on except for Trevor. And it is hecking hilarious. So happy with so many aspects of this--the HTV worked much better this time, and the edge gilding turned out lovely, and the charms are so cute and perfect. And when I saw the endpapers with the yellow googly eyes on one side, I couldn't resist.

Details under cut.

Typeset in Word, printed on French Smart White 80lb text, in Sylfean. Inside titles in Charlemagne Std, drop caps in TypographerWoodcutInitialsOne, cover titles in Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed with some raster editing. Animal Prints font for the pawprint. HTV is Siser, cut with cricut, applied with home iron. Endpapers are from a retro pop art paper pack, bookcloth is generic BbH, and edge painting done with FW acrylic ink in Imitation Gold.

#book binding #bookbinding #fan binding #fanbinding #fic binding #ficbinding #hand binding #handbinding #book arts #fanfic #castlevania #fic that isn't mine #fic recs

[tenderanarchist]

Prototype tiny book made with leather upholstery samples and printmaking paper offcuts

#it measures about 3in tall and 2 and a quarter in across while closed #diy #art stuff #bookmaking #bookbinding #reclaimed materials #crafting #artists on tumblr #book arts

[upennmanuscripts]

It's a CRAB! (I love them) They're on p. 250 of Ms. Codex 3, three volumes of paintings or hand-colored sketches depicting mainly insects, fish and other marine life, birds and flowers. We don't know much about these books except that they were made in Japan, probably in the 19th century. If you know more, let us know!

🔗:

#manuscript #19th century #japan #japanese #animal #crab #drawing #art #book arts #book history #rare books

[lucybellwood]

oh sweet baby jeebus yes

#endpapers #book arts #patterns #libraries #fuck yeah

[newlullabies]

Book Sculptures by creativerascal on Etsy

#handmade #book arts #books #bookshelves #bookish #book reviews #booksbooksbooks #picture books #flower faerie #flower fairies #flower fairies of spring #brambly hedge #beatrix potter #flower fairies of the autumn #cicely mary barker

[simply-sithel]

Happy Edible Book Day!

Was fortunate enough to hop over to @epitomereally's yesterday for some social (and productive!) crafting - was able to distribute a couple of the book cookies I made this year. Highlight was witnessing @justheblueberry pop one of the minis in her mouth exactly as I had pantomimed to A when describing my objective of the project. Success! 🙌*

The books don't hinge, there's just a number of them baked in various degrees of 'open' - but some of them had a pinch of text

* I've never made this type of icing before, never worked with edible wafer paper before, and it's been a long time since I've made a basic sugar cookie so learned a lot this round and will be better equipped for future years

#having a pleasant morning booping & edible books #might have write-up/notes/wip photos post later #at least they were tasty! (except for the minis which sadly got more burnt than any of the others) #edible book day #book arts #little book

[mcromwell]

The Art Critter is so helpful...

#book arts #bookbinding #the art critter #puppet #skull #bones #upcycled #trash art #recycled art #traditional art #art