Since coloring black and white photos is the new black (and white – Dad joke) perhaps a step-by-step ‘how to’ of handsome Nile would be a fun way to pass some holiday time. It’s like a coloring book for grow-up’s. You can download your favorite Kinnick photo from the Iowa Digital Library: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/kinnick/. Of course…

Sitting on my dresser is a pile of prints and pictures to be framed and hung. The top of the pile displays an image of a tiny little ship. I’m sure that walking past this several times a day influenced what I chose to draw for this panel book, I’m very susceptible to subliminal suggestion…

Yeah, I just satirized a Brittany Spears song as a blog title. What?! I was recently playing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations in which Ezio must find several ancient books throughout the city of Istanbul. After finding the first book I noticed that what Ezio held was known as a coptic binding. When Ezio hands this same…

I wanted to make a leather bound book to match my couch. My couch isn’t leather, it’s embroidered cloth, but I think they look nice together. A kind of worldly look. Like The Continental. I wish Christopher Walken was my uncle. Anyway, back to the book!! I wanted to practice working with leather, mostly to…

The best planner I ever had in my entire life was a created by British designer Cath Kidson. I found one at Barnes and Noble and then could never find one again. So I made one. For the most part it’s exactly what I loved and needed in a planner only without a metric system…

I wanted to make a book but couldn’t afford the to buy any fancy materials and didn’t really want to leave the house. Also, I had just begun thinking about different materials for book creation while cleaning out a junk drawer (you know if you go to look in YOUR junk drawer there’s at least…

After I learned the basic structure of putting together a book I wanted to mess around with perspective a bit. I thought of the brilliant idea of making what I referred to in my head as a ‘tunnel book’. When I began researching ways and ideas of construction I found out that there was already…