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From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking Whether youre a writer a scrapbooker a political activist or a postcard collector let book artist Esther K Smith be your guide as you discover your inner bookbinder Using foolproof illustrations and step-by-step instructions Smith reveals her time-tested techniques in a fun easy-to-understand way



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Esther K. Smith

Esther K Smith stitches artist books and makes collaborative limited editions at Purgatory Pie Press with hand-typographer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. Solo exhibits include Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's Victoria & Albert Museum. International collections include Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, London's Tate, the Walker, and the Whitney Museum. Esther Smith teaches Artist Books at Cooper Union. She has been a visiting artist at Museum of Arts & Design and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Her upcoming class is Artist Books: A Structural Approach April 30- May 4, 2012 at the Art Students League, New York City.



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