Saturday 4 July 2009

The Decorated Journal

This book by Gwen Diehn arrived from Amazon this morning.

It's very interesting, but if you're after a book to tell you how to make pages, this is not the one. Diehn covers what to use, artistic techniques, how to alter books and how to make them from scratch, but there is no step-by-step page design.

I think this is a good thing - the book gives the means, but how the techniques are interpreted is entirely down to the reader. And there are plenty of photographs to give you inspiration.

The only complaint I have is that I wanted more in the way of prompts, but that is a minor quibble really.

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