Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
This month sees the launch of The New Goodbye, an enhanced book app for the iPhone incorporating a novel by Neil Ayres and featuring photography by Nicole Heiniger and illustrations by Johanna Basford. Intrigued, I caught up with Neil to ask a few questions.
This is such an interesting concept and an exciting[.....]
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Knitting is rapidly becoming more and more popular, and more and more fashionable. Even some celebrities knit nowadays. Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Julia Roberts and Madonna have all revealed recently that they like knitting.
In the Loop shows the different aspects of contemporary knitting practice and transforms our understanding of knitting away from retro hobby[.....]
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I’ve just bought a pack of these for the designers at work. Such a good idea and yet so simple. The idea for The Storyboard Book came about a few years ago when the creators were doing some storyboard sketches for a television commercial. The director wanted to explain an idea and grabbed[.....]
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Competition: win a Miniature Leather Journal by Susan Green Books
The theme of this competition is twofold. Combining Susan Green’s love of nature and her small but perfectly formed miniature journals, she is inviting you to write her a poem. A Haiku in fact. The theme must be ’smallness’ and in true[.....]
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School’s out, it’s raining and the kids are in. In the house, that it. The weather has its own ideas but we are indeed in the middle of our summer holidays. Now how to keep the kids occupied?
‘Making Stuff for Kids’ is a craft book for 4 to 11 year[.....]
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