the creative habit by twyla tharp
While we all have varying degrees of natural talents–athletic, musical, empathic, creative–these by themselves are not enough. In The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp, shares her working process and the rhythm of her life that cultivated her natural talents as she became one of America’s greatest choreographers. Interesting as both memoir and inspiration, this book is […]
keith smith books
In my mind Keith A. Smith is professor emeritus when it comes to thinking about books. He’s been making books for over 40 years and writing about them for at least 25. When I researched the links for this post, I was delighted to see that both of these books have been revised and expanded. […]
photo editor: an unappreciated job
“How did you find so many photos with exactly the same sepia tone?” This question was recently asked of my client Suzanne Fox, author of Grief Country: a meditation on the landscape of loss. The answer was, she didn’t. The images in the book were licensed from a range of photographer’s work on istockphoto.com and […]
on book design
As omnipresent as books are, few readers are aware of the ‘invisible’ craft of book designing. from the fly-leave I would have to say that many writers and printers are also unaware of this craft because, ironically, when it is done correctly, it is indeed invisible, since its sole purpose is to support the writer’s […]
2-Sas Colby
The complex nature of books as objects is in my bones. I am drawn to their container-like quality, their layered sequential revelation, and their ability to both reveal and conceal. I like the intimacy of books requiring one’s time and touch. Books still occupy an iconic position in our culture; I have a mystical concept […]
what is “book thinking”?
I first heard that term from Sas Colby, a gifted book artist, when I attended one of her workshops years ago. And since then I have been thinking a lot about books. Not so much about the content in the book, but about the book itself. Its physicality. Its underlying conceptual structure and how that […]
