Home Booklet

This morning I saw this funny and special bookdesign in a facebook post from Adelene from
ddots and I really had to share it. It has been designed for the exhibition Mi Casa Su Casa
in Singapore.

http://www.dddots.com
http://micasasucasajia.weebly.com/index.html

New Book Press

Yesterday I bought a really good and very heavy bookpress. The press has been manufactured
by Karl Krause from Leipzig - Germany. This company was founded in 1855 and has been very
important for the development of bookbinding. Karl Krause invented new devices for stack cutting, book presses and cardboard scissors.
Unfortunately I can't find any information on the internet about H.B. Ydo Machinehandel, the Dutch firm that sold this press.

  

 

Information about Karl Krause:
http://www.buchbinderei-koester.de/de/news/details/2009-03-20_Maschinenbau+Karl+Krause,+ein+Wegbereiter+der+modernen+Buchbinderei.html

http://www.maschinenzoo.ch/index.php?/root/karl-krause/

Ball of Light

Denis Smith produces beautiful photos by swinging lights around:

http://www.balloflight.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/DenisSmithPhotography

Swan Market

Today Prien will be at the Swan Market in Rotterdam.

 

http://www.swanmarket.nl/

Prien's little booklets

In the middle of making these little Prien's Summer Series booklets, I noticed this colourful image:

Zeche Zollverein

More beautiful rust at the Zeche Zollverein...

http://www.zollverein.de

Zeche Zollverein

In June we were in the Ruhr Region in Germany. We visited the Zeche Zollverein in Essen and the Gasometer in Oberhausen.

This picture is taken at the Zeche Zollverein, an old coal mine and factory in Essen. Nowadays this inmense area is an historic monument that accommodates several museums, creative companies and stages. A lot of restauration work is still ongoing and the old factories are covered with rust, which makes them really photogenic.

http://www.zollverein.de

Sand Drawings by Jim Denevan

... just look ... (and check Jim Denevan's website)...

 
http://www.jimdenevan.com/jim.htm

Minimalism to the Max

Olga Rosanova painted this green stripe in 1917, so this painting can been seen as a forerunner of the Abstract Expressionists Rothko and Barnett. In those avant-garde days painting the colour green was not done. Green represented nature, something avant-gardists despised. Abstract art should be painted in primair colours. Painting this minimalistic green painting Olga Rosanova was far ahead of her time.
 

The first Colour of the Summer Series

Dyed the first colour of the Summer Series yesterday...

Prien work in progress

Working hard at the new summer series.
Booklets, notebooks, pencil cases, binders, photo albums and labels.

Next week in the new shop!