At the beginning of this year, I thought about success, what it means for me, and how I want to achieve it in this year. I came up with a pretty ambitous list of goals for this year, it seemed to much to hope to accomplish. With clear goals in mind for the year, I […]
Category archives: Chitchat
Is this (still) bookart?
It’s been a while since I gave you guys who like the written word an update on what I am working at but I am planning to show you some of my current work in progress in the next week(s). In case you don’t know yet: I post quite regularly on instagram these days, and […]
Plans for 2020 continued. Or: What do I mean when I say I want to be successful?
In my last blogpost, the first in this year, I mentioned that I am thinking about the questions what it means for me to be successful. I decided to write about it, hoping that maybe this helps you a little, too. Being self-employed and self-taught, the lack of a pad on the shoulder by a […]
Welcome 2020, the start of a new decade*
Many, if not all blogposts I have seen recently fall in one of two categories: either they are about making a commitment for the coming year, or they are about looking back the last 10 years, now that we are finishing another set of 10. And so I, too, dug out my old harddrive and […]
Silk Thread for Asian Bindings – General Talk, Pictures, and Call for Applications
I have started to work with the book “Japanese Bookbinding. Instructions from a Master Craftsman” by Kojiro Ikegami already in 2014, five years ago. If you don’t know it, you should at least try to take a look at it at your local library. By many it is considered THE book about Japanese bookbinding. Like […]