Just after I returned from my Christ­mas vaca­tion, I received an unex­pected pack­age. Upon open­ing it, it was a trove from Never Press. Never Press is an inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ing house that is based in Pasadena, Cal­i­for­nia. They boast art books that feed the curios­ity of the artists involved with the projects. From the works I ...

So ya’ll know I am in grad school? It’s finals time, and I’ve had to cut back posts to one a day to deal with the large ends that need to be tied. Mov­ing on, though! This past semes­ter in MICA’s Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice pro­gram, the Advanced Pub­lish­ing Work­shop with Jaime Zol­lars came together to cre­ate Bal­moral ...

Ali­son Wor­man is in her last year at MICA, work­ing in Fibers with a con­cen­tra­tion in Book Arts. I really enjoy her recent book that she’s made, with illus­tra­tions using gouache. They include die cuts, my favorite! While one could get weirded out by the head­less peo­ple, her paint­ings are super charm­ing and far enough ...

The kind folks over at OCW Mag­a­zine sent me their lat­est issue, Coun­ter­parts. OCW Mag­a­zine is a biannually-produced pub­li­ca­tion whose focus is the cul­ti­va­tion of art and culture. This issue marks the transtion into a bian­nual inter­dis­ci­pli­ary art project. On page nine of the visu­als book­let (the white, heav­ier bound book), the cura­to­r­ial vision for ...

Howdy! I’m Steph and I’m going to write a blog post for my buddy Sara E Barnes while she’s on her vaca­tion. I like to send her inter­net links and ani­mal pic­tures through email. ———- How do you describe the ear­li­est visual mem­o­ries you have? I’ve been recently think­ing about some of these mem­o­ries, like ...

The lovely folks at Muse­ums Press con­tacted me recently to intro­duce them­selves, and I am so glad they did. Muse­ums Press is a Manchester-based inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ing house that prints zines, books, and also offers indi­vid­ual prints from artists on an inter­na­tional level. Matthew and Jes­sica of Muse­ums Press are excited about what they put forth, ...

I always knew that Lizzy Stew­art could draw. But, when she was kind enough to send me one of her lat­est endeav­ors, Toska, I really got to see her draw­ing prowess first hand, not just on the inter­webs. Her beau­ti­ful style has been trans­lated into a black and white litho printed, 20 page book that ...

Psst… The sec­ond issue of Fine Line 2 is launched today. The lovely ladies behind it, Jes­sica and Cas­san­dra, have crafted a 50-page per­fect bound book show­cas­ing some won­der­ful artists in Act Accord­ingly. Get a copy here. All images via Fine Line. Nancy Aguilar. Javier Pinon. ...

Image cour­tesy of The Paper Crane. Dee Clements, artist and direc­tor of The Paper Crane, con­tacted me recently to let me know of their new ven­ture. The Paper Crane is branch­ing out from not only a works-on-paper stu­dio, but to artist books and small press. They are cur­rently accept­ing sub­mis­sions for their col­lec­tion. Find out ...

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva has self-published col­or­ing book/zine titled, well, “Unti­tled 2″. It’s a com­bi­na­tion of both col­ored draw­ings and pages to be colored. I like Masha’s style of draw­ing with her thin, yet con­fi­dent line. What intrigues me most about this book, how­ever, are the col­or­less pages. I love that she’s left parts of those images ...