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I’ve started something…

…..I shouldn’t have.

I make my own problems.

I am entering some bookbindings for a show, but decided I should illustrate the books as well. Nobody asked me to. I’m my own worst enemy.

The Humird….

….is worried about the Humog.

I’m worried about more than that.

I’ve been making my own books from works I can get from the internetty. I print in sections and sew them up using the continuous binding techniques which is super quick. Then I make paper covers and do terrible covers.

I’m a little curious….

…..as to how we got here.

We find ourselves…..

….on the Island where we belong.

A book reimagined.

A friend bought me this book while visiting him in Gothenburg. The covers had fallen off, but I noticed that it was missing a few illustrations, so I was wondering if it was worth it. I did an internet search , but couldn’t really find any of the illustrations inside.

Then I thought I could just make up the illustrations myself. I used the interweb to translate so I suppose I did some sort of approximation of what the hell happening.

And that’s what I did.

Restored and reimagined.

Sketchy with a soldering iron.

Just practicing for when I tackle the fAtlas.

For better or worse….

…I finished my books for the Easter show.

Top. The War of the Worlds, a newly case bound multi  section book, with the textbook from Binders Edition. I painted new endpapers and cover illustrations, and free hand tooled the cover design. And hand sewn end bands.

Middle. A repair and rebind of Mrs. Beeton’s Shilling Cookbook. It was missing the covers and first few pages, so I made and designed new covers and endpapers by hand colouring prints of some of the plates inside the book. The book is sewn on cords and laced into the cover boards, 1/4 Leather bound, with my dodgy hand drawn blocking.

Bottom. Pictures of Sound, which is a booklet and CD from Dust To Digital. They have a digital download. Being in Australia it’s really expensive to get their things here, so I figured I would print my own booklets and make my own special editions. This is a stab sewn textbook with simple printed paper covered board for the covers, with inlaid prints of the CD cover from and back. Endpapers are made from images from the booklet.

Than chances of anything coming from Mars…

…are a million to one. But still they come.

The chances of me finishing binding this edition of War Of The Worlds, is about the same.

Book in Brisbane exhibition

Hello again,

this weekend only I have a book that has travelled up to Brisbane as part of a bookbinding show.

See it at

Scrumptious Reads, 92A Arthur Terrace, Red Hill on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th November.

I almost forgot. Last weekend to see this exhibition in Canberra

I bound a book for an exhibition which is the reprinted text of a letter sent by Nicolas Baudin to the New South Wales Govenor saying that the land is actually inhabited. But they didn’t listen.

The exhibit us at the Sutton Village Gallery just outside Canberra, before coming to Sydney later in the year.

51 Camp Street, Sutton.