COUNTER ETHEREAL/ERIN fabric sketchbook

About the COUNTER collection:

The collection COUNTER celebrates the space in and around letterforms: open or closed, narrow or wide. In typography, a counter is the actual area of a letter entirely or partially enclosed by a letterform or symbol. Imagine the ‘hole’ in the middle of a beautiful O or the half-circle area at the top of a lowercase e. What is that area, other than a necessary part of the whole; not empty or negative, but blank and full of possibility?

The collection of letterpress prints that began the idea for COUNTER was made during a two-week residency at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2024. Hamilton houses 1.5 million pieces of wood type and is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production, and printing of wood type. At Hamilton, I concentrated on printing some of the larger, billboard-sized wooden letterforms in the collection (some more than 3 feet tall). COUNTER follows in the footsteps of my past collections GLYPHS, ROOT, and RAVEL, which experiment and examine aspects of the written word.

This book is covered with the fabric pattern, Ethereal/Erin.

About the Blank Slate series:
I found my first set of discarded publishing blanks or (dummies) in a huge pile at one of my favorite reuse centers in Oakland about a year ago. All these beautiful empty white book forms just sat there waiting to become something. So I bought the whole stack and then stacks more, and little by little, they have become part of this new blank slate journal/sketchbook series.

All books in this series are one-of-a-kind. Read the following specs carefully.
(I have filled out as much information about the paper weight, texture, surface, etc… but some of the book forms have been acquired with no descriptions. I will guess as best I can in some instances. Artists: feel free to contact me if there is a certain medium you use and you want to be sure the paper will be suitable. I can try to test the surface for you as best I can.)

Softcover journal
size: 7 W x 10 H (inches)
paper description: the inside paper is 120gsm, or 80lb text weight based on another sample
I have here that feels the same. Paper is white, and has a slight coating, it’s pretty smooth, not glossy, but also not matte.
pages: 160+ pp, (see image for thickness)
weight: 1 lb, 9 oz., this book is perfect for carrying around, fitting into a daily bag or backpack, etc..