Lines and Shapes works like this: each issue of Artist Series, artists that are involved in the book get a word, or a phrase — a jump­ing off point. They then each work inde­pen­dently of each other, and later their pieces are designed in book form.

The books fea­ture dif­fer­ent types of artists — painters, pho­tog­ra­phers, illus­tra­tors, and print mak­ers. Each book is beau­ti­fully designed — clean and show­cases the art­work very nicely. After tak­ing a gan­der, I think my favorite would be vol­ume nine — grow — that is com­prised of Japan­ese artists. Takashi Iwasaki is an artist that I will def­i­nitely have to check out after look­ing at the site.