I really thought my next project would be a different style of box, but the road took a twist. A few days ago I bought a book on how to make 100 different books. As usual with this type of book, most of the designs explained were in the genre of “Artist Books”. Books in weird shapes, with pop-ups or folded pages, beads dangling or cleverly designed around artwork. They are wonderful to look at and explore. Unfortunately, I don’t enjoy making them. My “artist books” tend to look either like a kindergarten project gone awry or something designed by the Mad Hatter on his way down the rabbit hole.
I prefer functional books, just like my preference for functional boxes. After a lifetime of collecting non-utilitarian objects, I’m all about function and use these days. Anyway, the book I bought did have a bunch of “real” books with sewn bindings and hard covers. There were a few that caught my eye and I even tried out one. (See more in the Book section on this page.)
While I was plotting out some possible designs, the Arts Center called to say that they needed more towers. So all plans on hold while I make a few more towers for them! Such is life.
Here are the the quickie towers I did over the weekend.
I think I mixed up the yellow boxes and put them into the wrong green backgrounds. Whoops! Not sure though and it’s too late to do anything about it.
Here are the two yellow/green towers. Still not sure.
I also discovered that Etsy has an app that lets me put a gallery from my store on this site. I’ve put it here as a test.