A Box of Ideas by Stephen Emmerson from Timglaset books 2022, is a wonderful poetic object. It's a simple black box containing ~99 cards (haven't counted them) + a tile and credits. Each card has an idea for 'a book of poems ...'. There are…
Here's a wonderful Catalogue Saisonee by Paper View for the brilliant visual poet and artist Derek Beaulieu. It's a small but incredible book, ~180 pages of texture and surprises, from the binding to the mix in production techniques and papers. It's lovingly designed by someone…
A long time back I picked up 28 Amendments by Astrid Stavro, Pablo Martin and Nick Asbury. A wonderfully simple idea, well executed. Amend the word using proofing marks to make it all better. As they put it: 28 Amendments is a series of positive…
Picked this gem up over on the fabulous 50 watts books: "Genpei Akasegawa Super Science Kamishibai / Japanese-language publication from 1978". My Japanese is zero, so I'm missing the story but the imagery is amazing. Struggled to find much more information about this book in…
With the up coming launch of Inscription: The Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History #5 'Containers' on May 14th 2025, I thought is was about time I posted something about this wonderful journal. I have the first 3 issues, I missed issue 4, maybe…
I came across Fumi Yanagimoto's work via Instagram many years back (@fumiyanagimoto). Such beautifully sensitive illustrations of the animals we share a life with. A few years later a friend in Japan was putting on an exhibition of their work and we managed to get…
Living in California means I live in a wooden house, which feels like I'm the second of The Three Little Pigs. But I grew up just north of London in a brick terrace house so this book on bricks from brickworks across the UK had…