Category Archives: Design

Moving Right Along

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Byopia Press

I finished the colouring on all nine Mixed Messages III prints this week. Here they are stacked (on the left) in the map case next to Mixed Messages I.

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Friday Night Flicks: The Shibayamas by Giancarlo Shibayama

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Byopia Press

This flick is a bit longer than I usually post, but The Shibayamas is a larger undertaking than many artists’ books. It contains a history of emigration —personal, familial, and cultural— that seems appropriate in this time of mass migrations … Continue reading →

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More of the #99DayProject and a Sneak Peak

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Byopia Press

I am getting very close to the end of my #99DayProject with only eight days left after today. Here are this week’s squares.

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Fifteen Days Left

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Byopia Press

I have come another week closer to finishing my #99DayProject, with 84 days completed. Here are this week’s squares.

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Week 10 of my #99DayProject and a bit about gradients

Posted on July 18, 2021 by Byopia Press

Ten weeks into my 99 day project I am still enjoying the challenge of coming up with a new design daily. The one below is for today and was inspired by the setting first quarter moon seen through smoke haze. … Continue reading →

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Seven Weeks or Forty-five Days

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Byopia Press

I have completed seven weeks of my #99DayProject, or 45 squares. I will show the squares in a moment, but first I am pleased to announce that my one-of-a-kind artist’s book The future isn’t what it used to be has … Continue reading →

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Another week of cutting little squares, and some other things

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Byopia Press

We are waiting for rain, which influenced the square for today in my #99dayproject.

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DIY Cabbage Pie (Again)

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Byopia Press

This is a slightly adapted re-post from 2016. If you have read this before —and possibly made either the book or the cabbage pie— you might want to skip to the end for a new recipe: David’s Thin and Crispy … Continue reading →

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R is for Red

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Byopia Press

The February #areyoubookenough challenge word is Red. I tried —and failed— to come up with something based on Retired, Extremely Dangerous. I made a small red text-less book about words instead.

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Unsquare Dance

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Byopia Press

I finished my entry for the #areyoubookenough_recycle November challenge.

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