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 you’re 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.
Esther K Smith hand makes artist books and limited editions at Purgatory Pie Press in New York City, collaborating with typographer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. They have had solo exhibits at 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 adults at Cooper Union. Her next class is Magic Books & Paper Toys, beginning in March. Her Instant Artist Books class will begin again in June.
She is scheduling events in Spacecraft, Brooklyn and at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City.
