My friend and good man Austin Kleon wrote a book about being creative. Got it in the mail and the final product is a delight, expanding on his previous talk of the same title and adding nuance and context. It’s a great book, and ridiculously inexpensive. Austin made a site that provides a glimpse of [...]

Back in February, Nathan and Katie of Eight Hour Day went to the Pasadena Book Fair and spotted among many other fine specimens this Lady Luck paperback by Warren Weaver. I immediately took to scouring auctions for the 1963 edition of this book and came up a winner. There’s no indication inside who’s responsible for [...]

A couple photos from the phone because some days, well, I’m lazy like that. These are things of Tom’s… a book – and a painting by Jim Houser. Man I dig his work. My snapshot does disservice.

Slowly unpacking my bags, unearthing fine souvenirs from my trip. I’ve been following Bill Keaggy‘s work for many years, so it was a pleasure to meet him proper (and get his book!) 50 Sad Chairs features photographs of abandoned chairs coupled with a title that makes you think, or giggle, or both. Though it appears small in size, it [...]

A package with Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places book arrived. I am enamored. A quick image search and you might see why I dig it so. From his artist statement from this work, “A picture happens when something inside connects, an experience that changes as the photographer does.” That’s adequately vague and spot on in complexity. [...]

Ethan Bodnar hit me up, gosh, it’s been over a year ago – to see if I’d be game for a design book he was curating. Each designer was given a task to complete, mine was to make up a book jacket. I was feeling the season and used my Pantone Autumn photograph as a [...]

Hoping it is as good as I remember it. If not, I’m going to go back and try some Heinlein.