Blue Roof Designs - Adventures in Bookbinding

20+ Years of French Paper Promotions

erscampbell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:19:04 +0000

I’ve never been shy about proclaiming how much I love love love the French Paper Company. In addition to making fabulous papers that I’ve been using for years, they’ve also been an inspiration for branding. They set a high bar – their design is infused with a style and humor that I really appreciate. This video [...]

Artisans Hand annual sale

erscampbell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:54:25 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, Artisans Hand Craft Gallery, located in Montpelier, VT, was the very first gallery to sell my handmade books. The gallery only features work created by Vermont artisans. The staff at the gallery is so fabulous – they have always been very good to me. If you’re a Vermont artist and [...]

So a 5 gallon tub of PVA walks into a bar…

erscampbell — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:26:40 +0000

…and says, This is a stick up! Everybody spread ‘em!” Yeah, I bought a big-ass tub of glue. Now I can finally say something that I’ll probably never be able to say again: That tub is a few inches shy of an inflatable Jerry French.

Trip to Taurus Bookbindery

erscampbell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:03:26 +0000

The Guild of Bookworkers is presenting their annual event, The Seminar on Standards of Excellence in Hand Bookbinding, in San Francisco starting today. As my trip to Taurus Bookbindery was one of the stops on my bookbinding spree in San Francisco this summer, I felt it necessary to finally write about my visit. Taurus Bookbindery [...]

American Art Therapy Association Conference 2009

erscampbell — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:02:49 +0000

Every now and then, I experience a bit of longing for my days as an art therapist. I’ve long believed in the healing power of art and my chosen career path as a bookbinder has definitely been influenced by my graduate training. I remember when I proposed the thesis topic of using bookbinding in the expressive [...]

Peggy Skycraft is so cool

erscampbell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:50:57 +0000

I mean seriously cool. Peggy Skycraft has been making the most gorgeous marbled and painted papers since 1970. She is considered a master marbler and if you look at her work, you can see why. I became acquainted with Peggy’s work when I worked at Paper Source in the mid-90’s. From the moment I saw her [...]

Book Artists on Twitter – part 3

erscampbell — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:36:46 +0000

Alas, this will likely be my third and last post about book artists on Twitter (part one, part two). I have not, however, given up on sharing book-related Twitter peoples. What is this crazy lady talking about? I am one of the lucky schmoes chosen to test out Lists, a fabulous new feature in Twitter that allows [...]

Bookbinding bad habits – a winner

erscampbell — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:07:17 +0000

And the winner of the bookbinding bad habits giveaway is… Liz Conley! Congrats to Liz and many thanks to all of those who were generous in sharing their bookbinding tips misdeeds. By the way, I’ve got another one… My understanding is that you’re not supposed to wash your glue brush with either hot water or soap. I do both. And [...]

More information on Paper and Book Intensive 2010

erscampbell — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:41:37 +0000

I was just going down the internet rabbit hole and I ended up on the Paper and Book Intensive website. It’s been a while since I last visited and I was happy to find that they’ve announced their instructors for 2010: Frank Brannon – books Carolee Campbell – books Melissa Jay Craig – books Tatiana [...]

Julie Chen fans – welcome!

erscampbell — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:31:55 +0000

I was looking at my blog stats this morning and noticed that a large number of people were doing searches on Julie Chen of Flying Fish Press. I finally figured out that last night, folks had watched Craft in America, a documentary on PBS on which Chen was featured. Since she’s super-fabulous, of course people [...]