Calligraphy & more — the studio of Beth Lee, Bozeman, MT
Happy New Year! This year I’m taking on the challenge of Smashing Magazine to Design Something Every Day.
My plan, dubbed “Circadian Characters,” is to create and blog a letter a day. The theme for the first 26 letters, at least, is “Wood.” Here’s the first Character of the New Year, done with a pack of flat wooden toothpicks (Stimudents):
I’ve been working on digital stuff steadily, but I took a break to do a few “real” things. Here’s one of them:
from the New Zealand Book Council.
Wonderful stop-motion video of the making of The Complex of All of These, made by Abigail Uhteg at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.
Another year, another sampling of gold inks. It’s amazing how different the gold inks and gouaches are from one another. I ordered some more gold inks after I did this sampler. Dr. Martin’s Iridescent Cooper Plate Gold ink remains one of my favorites. For earlier posts on metallic inks, click on the metallic inks label in the sidebar (or this link).
homas de Bruin has uploaded alphabets composed of Google Earth images of Netherlands. I love it.
Shown below is his capitals alphabet. Click here to get to his flickr photostream, which includes minuscules and numbers-and-punctuation.
via BoingBoing
This is a photo of the library parking garage in Kansas City. Click on the photo to see the large size of the photo in Jonathan Moreau’s flickr photostream.
via Book-Arts-L
… but at least it’s October now, a more seemly month for snow.
