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february 2015 supplement Supplying calligraphers, lettering artists, illuminators, bookbinders and papercraft enthusiasts worldwide with books, tools, and materials since 1981. 4 4 3 3 6 6 ORDER NOW! toll free: 800-369-9598 v web: www.JohnNealBooks.com B3039. Building a Book, Binding New & Sale Books / DVDs a Poem: Artists’ Books in the Classroom by Meg Kennedy and BOOKBINDING Liz Abrams-Morley. 2010. 165pp. 8.25"x11". Paper $20.00 B4022. Scripsit Book Arts This book for middle Issue: 36.1. 2014. 32pp. 8.5"x11". school and high school Paper $20.00 teachers is based on the authors’ A gallery of bookworks extensive experience conducting from nine calligraphers school residencies and teacher workshops over nearly who make books, with comments two decades. The book demystifies the tasks of writing from the artists and showing a poetry and creating books with your students. The book wide range of ways to combine presents techniques of page decoration and book letters and books. The exciting construction and various writing exercises, which are and inspiring work is from David McGrail, Suzanne then incorporated into a series of step-by-step projects Moore, Nancy Ruth Leavitt, Elizabeth McKee, Yukimi that the students can make. Annand, Marina Soria, Eliza Holliday, Carol Barton, and Sue Smith. Now Available! CALLIGRAPHY B4007. The Spirit B4019. The Pony Express, Books by Susan Second Edition: A Collection Kapuscinski Gaylord. of Envelopes for Legacies II. 2014. 80pp. 8.25"x5.25". 2014. 24pp. 7"x8.5". Paper $20.00 Paper $9.99 Susan Kapuscinski This new Gaylord’s Spirit Books are one-of-a-kind assemblage sculptural handmade books cradled in twigs, of artfully addressed branches, vines, and roots. They bring together her love and delightfully decorated of the book and her response to the natural world, both envelopes will give you what is visible and what lies behind. She made her first ideas and inspiration to Spirit Book in this continuing series in 1992. In this new calligraphically create your own envelope excitement! book, she combines evocative images of 34 Spirit Books with her thoughts on their creation. Available again! B4020. The Pony Express, B3560. Little Book of First Edition: A Collection Book Making: Timeless of Decorated Envelopes for Techniques and Fresh Ideas for Legacies 2005. 30pp. 7"x8.5". Beautiful Handmade Books by Paper $9.99 Charlotte Rivers. 2014. 176pp. This collection of artful envelopes is from the 6.75"x7". Hardcover $22.95. first Legacies conference, which was held in JNB $19.93 2005. The booklet features more than 140 envelopes Packed, page after page, with wonderfully from creative scribes from all over the world. Ver y eclectic creations from 30 top bookmakers, limited supply! this book will inspire you to explore all the intriguing possibilities of bookmaking as an art form. The practical B4008. 26 Words: Exploring the section includes 21 easy-to-follow illustrated tutorials, DNA of Language. 2013. 62pp. including binding techniques and experimental page 8.25"x11.75". Paper $27.50 treatments, such as Sumi ink marbling. 200 color photos. Brings together writers from 26 and B4024. Bound: Over 20 Artful lettering artists from Letter Handmade Books by Erica Ekrem. Exchange to explore the verbal 2015. 144 pp. 8.5"x10". and visual representation of Paper $19.95. JNB $16.96 language. Twenty-six writer/ This book uses a lettering artist pairs have different mix of collaborated to bring to life an eclectic selection of materials in its projects: shells, words. Each pair randomly chose a word to represent ceramic tiles, and cigar box boards each letter of the alphabet by inserting a knife in a are used for book covers. A leaf forms the cover of a dictionary. The book presents an exhilarating and leaflet. Covers of discarded hardcover books are enlightening journey in words, exploring their power to repurposed as covers for new books. Thick leather alone inspire our imaginations. The works are as varied as the is used, wrapping around the text block and stitched to imaginations of the writers and artists involved: in turns create several books without boards. All the books are thought-provoking, profound, exciting, and exuberant sewn using a variety of stitches, most exposed at the – and presented in two and three dimensions. spine. After a section on the basics, each of the 20 projects has step-by-step instructions and illustrations and a full-color photo of the finished book. 2 ❧ EMAIL: [email protected] v www.JOHNNEALBOOKS.com B3991. Art, Word and Image: Art & Illustration 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual B4021. The Brilliant History of Interaction by John Dixon Hunt, Color in Art by Victoria Finlay. David Lomas, and Michael Corris. 2014. 128pp. 9"x10.15". 2010. 410pp. 11"x8". Paper $39.00. Hardcover $24.95. SALE $19.99 SALE $31.23 This is no dry What does it mean to discussion of say that a painting has pigments, but rather an engaging been “invaded” by language? Art, and entertaining exploration Word and Image answers this question by exploring how around the colors artist use and how they came to be. visual images and writing can work in dialogue in an The author tells of Cleopatra and purple, Napoleon and artwork. Whether the picture frame is encroached upon the graphite pencil, cobalt blue and forged Vermeers, and by doodlings, as with Adolf Wolfli’s seemingly irrational much more as she brings us into her quest to uncover scribbles, or a plea to spirituality is blazoned across a the origins and science of color. All is related in the vast canvas, as in the moving images of Colin McCahon, warm conversational style that helped make Finlay’s we can be sure that words here have a special meaning, earlier book on color so popular. But unlike that earlier one beyond everyday communication. Recommended by book, this rich narrative is illustrated in full-color Amity Parks for her classes at Legacies 2014. throughout – with 166 major works of art, most from Now Available! the collections of the Getty Museum. B3962. Happy Lettering B145. The Zanerian Manual of with the Right Tools by Alphabets and Engrossing. 1981. Marika Koskimäki-Ketelä. 140pp. 8"x10.5". Spiral paper 2014. 48pp. 7.5"x11.5". $39.95. JNB Price $28.00. This book Paper $22.50 won’t be available before Spring This enthu- 2015. You are encouraged to order siastic book now. Your card will not be charged provides instruction on lettering with ruling pens – for the book when you place your traditional ones and the newer ones made specifically order. You will be notified when the for lettering. The author includes how-to make a folded available date is known. The first 21 pages by E.A. Lupfer pen from an aluminum can, which she calls Can Pens provide some of the best Copperplate instruction (they are also called Cola Pens). Some instruction is also available. He is a master of the hand. Other engrossing included for Automatic Pens and Suede Pens. Marika is alphabets are shown, as well as many examples of a Finnish scribe. engrossed pieces. Revised & reissued at intervals since it B4014. Bewegt schreiben – was first published asZanerian Alphabets in 1895. Schreiben bewegt (We write inspired – Writing inspires). Asian Calligraphy 2012. 114pp. 8.24"x11.75". B3978. Dishu: Ground Calligraphy Paper $60.00 in China by François Chastenet. This lushly produced 2013. 320pp. 6.25"x9.5". Paper $39.95. catalog is for an SALE $19.98. You save 50% exhibition that marked the 25th This photographic essay anniversary of the Schreibwerk- documents the practice of statt Klingspor Offenbach. Over dishu, ephemeral calligraphy written 80 works are shown in full color from Karlgoerg Hoefer, on the pavement using clear water as Maria Hoefer, Hans Schmidt, Jean Larcher, Hermann ink. This practice originated in a Zapf, and over 50 other talented scribes and lettering north Beijing park in the 1990s and soon spread to most artists, all members of this calligraphy society. In major Chinese cities. Thousands of anonymous street English and German: Foreword by Benno Aumann, calligraphers operate daily in Chinese parks and streets. “About Writing” by Dr Sttefan Soltek, and “25 Years of Their monumental scale letterings range from static and Schreibwerkstatt Klingspor Offenbach” by Gottfried Pott, regular to highly cursive styles. Because of the scale, the exhibition’s curator. The brief captions (title, tools writing is with the whole body; it is a physical and visual and materials, dimensions) are in German. In the book’s dance. innovative binding, the cover is not glued to the sewn B3966. Japanese Alphabet: spine, but instead is scored and folded and wraps The 48 Essential Characters by around. Gabriele Mandel and Isao Hose. B4022. Scripsit Book Arts 2007. 148pp. 7.75"x9.5". Hardcover Issue: 36.1. 2014. 32pp. 8.5"x11". $29.95. SALE $9.99 Paper $20.00 This clear and concise A gallery of bookworks guide to the various from nine calligraphers Japanese writing systems presents who make books, with comments all of the characters (kana) in the from the artists and showing a traditional order, shown in both the hiragana and wide range of ways to combine katakana versions. Each character is given its own page, letters and books. The exciting which graphically indicates the correct sequence for the and inspiring work is from David McGrail, Suzanne individual strokes; provides voiced and unvoiced Moore, Nancy Ruth Leavitt, Elizabeth McKee, Yukimi variants; and presents the Chinese ideogram from which Annand, Marina Soria, Eliza Holliday, Carol Barton, it was derived, the Roman transliteration, and the and Sue Smith. character in several typefaces. TOLL FREE: 800-369-9598 v WEB: www.JOHNNEALBOOKS.com ❧ 3 Denis Brown Christmas DVD54.