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Bookbinding Fairs coming up

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:09:26 +0000

Bookbinding Fair in Köln, Germany

Sunday 24 October, from 11.00 to 17.00 . Werkstatt Palette, Lüderichstraße 8, 51105 Köln. More information here.

Bookbinding Fair in Leiden, the Netherlands

Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 November. Saturday 10.00-17.00, Sunday 11.00-17.00. St.Pieterskerk, Leiden. For more information, see here or mail here.

Look deeper – find more

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:37:44 +0000

The title of this post, and the long, inspiring quote below belong to Denis Brown, the sharpest calligrapher I know. He has smartly put into words the importance of practice, time and passion – in his case in calligraphy, but it can be applied to any practice. Enjoy, and after reading , do visit his site!

“Challenge yourself every day to achieve what you could not do yesterday. This takes commitment & time. Avoid complacency!

Only then might you understand. I have greatest respect for the maturity and life experience of my students, who are still generally older than me and have raised families etc. Their experience gives them enviable wisdom, although it also seems to deny most of the raw passion to take calligraphy farther. Hence complacency in the field, given the sad fact almost no younger people with more energy and more commitment (even if less wisdom) are coming in to complement and challenge the wisdom of mature practitioners. So, I challenge you- all of you- to find a way to communicate your passion to a teenager strongly and effectively enough for them to catch the bug… and carry a torch to change the world of calligraphy just as the world is always changing. This would seem to me a more worthwhile pursuit than t aspire to make a perfect “o”…. Take on that challenge … and give it tine- it may make all the difference…”

Childrens necklaces

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:08:44 +0000

On the jewelry-creating side of life, the
children’s necklaces for this summer are now in my Wishscroll shop

Business blogs for us

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:28:06 +0000

Dear friends,

A quick note for all of you who are making things and selling their creations. This winter/spring I’ve found two blogs that are just too good to keep to myself:

Crafting an MBA: business thinking for designers & makers

and

Tara Gentile: write well, create often

Enjoy!

PS. New links via Facebook!

The Crafts Report

and

Get Clients Marketing en Aquisitie tips (in Dutch)

The Illustrated Accordion at Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Michigan.

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:10:29 +0000

Surf Bunny (what a great name!) was so kind to send me an email with the link to this Flickr photo stream page, with illustrated accordion books from different artists. Just finished watching the slide show – all fueled up to get creative. Thanks!

14 ways every business should be using Twitter

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:55:06 +0000

This lengthy title sums up the useful contents of this blogpost… Check it out!

“Dream destination and its colors”

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:17:12 +0000

Have you ever sought for inspiration? Well, this blog post by Zsazsazsu, and the responses to it, should cure any visual creator’s block – well worth a visit!

The Spirit of Stones

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:57:10 +0000

This is the title of the blogpost by Donna Watson, an artist whom I’d describe as talentfull and with a trained eye, wise in the ways of nature, and an inspiration… Just visit her blog, and her website – you’ll see what I mean.

PS. She was so kind to include my work in her blog. In doing so, she first contacted me via email to ask for my permission to publish a photo of my work. After seeing her blog I was more than happy to give the permission. Now this is the way I like it, being polite and thoughtful, also in the wild wild west, no, I mean the world wide web.

New work

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:51:35 +0000

Impressions of work in the making. These are the altered elements ( primed, dyed, illustrated…) for new artists books, that will accompany a selection of previous work at the Kunstkelder, Putten, Netherlands, 23 April – 22 May.

Bookbinding Fair in Belgium

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:54:30 +0000

Let’s keep it short&to the point shall we:

The 14th edition of the Bookbinding Fair in Sint Niklaas, Belgium, will be held on Sunday 25th of April 2010, from 11.00 to 17.00.

The location is the Stadszalen, Leopold II-laan 67, 9100 Sint Niklaas, Belgium.

For tools and materials, workshops, demonstrations and meeting your bookbinding, bookrestorating colleagues.

2,50 euro per person, children until 12 years old 1,-

For more information check out their website here.