The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (with step-by-step exercises, cut-out projects, sticker ideas, templates, and fun DIY ideas)
10 best books like The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message out into the World (with step-by-step exercises, cut-out projects, sticker ideas, templates, and fun DIY ideas) (Keri Smith): Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to Live, Boyology: A Teen Girl's Crash Course in All Things Boy, Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity, 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity (Perigee Book), How to Make a Journal of Your Life, Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It, 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!, Crafting a Meaningful Home: 27 DIY Projects to Tell Stories, Hold Memories, and Celebrate Family Heritage, Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum, Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials
| Author | Sabrina Ward Harrison |
| ISBN | 0812967666 |
Like her previous, the book looks a lot like an art journal with mixed media collages, photography, and writing. It focuses on her choices, her body image, her desire to love and live fully. There's a lot of beauty and quite a bit of melodrama. Yet...
A couple of spreads / passages made the book...
| Author | Sarah O'Leary Burningham |
| ISBN | 0811864367 |
Cute and surprisingly informative. I picked up this ARC because we booked Sarah to come into Changing Hands in June. What did a 25 year old mother of two learn from reading Boyology? Quite a bit actually. More about the behavior of my younger siblings, but it also made me flash back to those awkward tween...
| Author | Suzanne Simanaitis |
| ISBN | 1581808798 |
Indulge your creative cravings Are you passionately curious? Let "Kaleidoscope" open new doors of creativity as you explore dozens of stories, exercises and instructive projects, all designed to feed, encourage and sometimes flex your creative muscle.Between the beautiful pages of "Kaleidoscope,"...
| Author | Jeffrey Yamaguchi |
| ISBN | 0399532064 |
Jeffrey Yamaguchi extends an invitation to indulge one's inner artist by committing yourself to one creative project a week for 52 weeks. 52 Projects chronicles the author's artistic journey over the course of one year and how it changed his life-and also offers 52 jumping-off points for the reader's...
| Author | Dan Price |
| ISBN | 1580080936 |
When nomad artist and free spirit Dan Price began jotting down his musings in the form of whimsical drawings and inspired prose, he hardly could have imagined that his self-published journal-zine, the MOONLIGHT CHRONICLES, would earn him a cult following across the country. Now in its twentieth edition,...
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0307341704 |
"SARK is a sparkler who jump-starts the creative process. Her ideas are user-friendly, innovative, and pragmatic." Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
Write and share what's in your heart! Let SARK show you how. Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper is your non-judgmental witness, resoundingly...
| Author | Noah Scalin |
| ISBN | 0760339961 |
The concept of Noah Scalin’s "365 method" is simple but inspired: Choose a theme or medium, then make something every day for a year. Noah made 365 skull-themed projects . . . now he invites you to choose your obsession and get creative! The book offers 365 project prompts to kick start your creativity,...
Crafting a Meaningful Home: 27 DIY Projects to Tell Stories, Hold Memories, and Celebrate Family Heritage
As the second decade of the 21st century begins, we’re more compelled than ever to find refuge in our homes and personalize our living spaces with DIY projects that celebrate who we are and where we’ve been. In Crafting a Meaningful Home, Meg Mateo Ilasco shares 27 projects that tell personal stories...
Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum
Beloved Scandinavian designer Lotta Jansdotter shows how easy it is to print patterns on all sorts of surfaces. Using stencils, rubber stamps, homemade screens, and other easy techniques, the projects and processes range from simple prints easy for beginners to more involved projects for experienced...
Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials
| Author | Jeannine Stein |
| ISBN | 1592535240 |
I found the ideas in this book too... self-satisfied. While I'm a big fan of artist's books in general, I a) did not find many of them in this book all that inspiring and b) was annoyed by how few of the projects were meant to be an actual book (aka, a place wherein is written things). It felt like Re-Bound was...
Listography Journal: Your Life in Lists
| Author | Lisa Nola |
| ISBN | 0811859088 |
List-makers rejoice! This quirky and imaginative guided journal is the ultimate tool for creating a unique autobiography entirely in list form. Some lists are obvious (greatest accomplishments, best friends, favorite food), others obscure (guiltiest pleasures, greatest acts of kindness, personal...
Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects
| Author | Christine Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0307586545 |
This is a book for low budgets and high ambition. Read it and you will learn how to put images of things onto other things. You will start by rolling up your sleeves. Your shirt will be stained anyways. At some point, you will harness the power of the sun.
Go ahead, look inside. You will see that...
Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper
| Author | Birga Meyer |
| ISBN | 3899552512 |
this is adapted from a longer review at my blog liberal sprinkles
http://liberalsprinkles.blogspot.com/...
Paper comes to life in so many ways in this book. Art installations, portraits, animation characters, 3D posters, cutouts of figures, people, animals and objects big...
Let's Make Some Great Art
In this interactive coloring and activity book, Marion Deuchars takes the broad canvas of art and fills it with drawings and activities that engage with what art can be, how it can be made, what it can mean for you and what it has meant for people through the ages. Aimed at children aged eight and older, the...
D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself: A Design Handbook
| Author | Ellen Lupton |
| ISBN | 1568985525 |
Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your party planner's? How about some personalized stationery? An upgrade to your website? A business card? A poster for your political campaign? A CD package for your...
Sewing Bits and Pieces: 35 Projects Using Fabric Scraps
| Author | Sandi Henderson |
| ISBN | 0470539240 |
35 projects to turn your favorite fabric scraps into well-loved treasures
Sewing with scraps is an economical way to make the most of your designer fabrics-as well as a fun way to use up a stash of your favorite leftovers for smaller projects. Michael Miller fabric designer Sandi Henderson...
Printing by Hand: A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils, and Silk Screens
| Author | Lena Corwin |
| ISBN | 1584796723 |
It’s the natural inconsistencies—the accidental differences between one finished piece and another—that make hand-printed fabrics, papers, furniture, and works of art so interesting. The quirks are what show the maker’s intimate involvement in the process, and it’s that unique quality...
| Author | Philipp Keel |
| ISBN | 0767905016 |
The copy I read had been filled out by Richard and Jessica. I thought this would be a great opportunity to read all about a couple I had never met, and who left this book in a pile of trash in a stairwell. It was supposed to be like a real-life Ship of Theseus.
Q: What is the best thing about being a woman?
Richard:...
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
| Author | Mandy Moore |
| ISBN | 1551522551 |
As seen in The New York Times and The New Yorker
On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. "Knit graffiti" is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced by crochet...
| Author | Kate Marshall |
| ISBN | 0767923154 |
What I Love About You offers a fresh way to say "I love you."
This fill-in-the-blank book prompts you to say what is in your heart, but may not always be at the tip of your tongue. Tell the most important person in your life just how much they mean to you by completing the scores of unique, evocative...
