Write Create Make: WRITE CREATE MAKE

• Society for Calligraphy. “The Society for Calligraphy, Southern California, is a non-profit educational organization which promotes the study, teaching and practice of calligraphy and related disciplines.” Check out the Society’s newsletter and calendar for workshops and free monthly meetings/demos held by the seven regional groups of the Society in Southern California. 
   
• Contemporary Calligraphy, by Denish Lach , 2014  Amazon

• The Elements of Typographic Style, 4th Ed., by Robert Bringhurst, 2012

• Vernacular Typography

• Thinking with Type (Ellen Lupton)

• Letterform Archive

• Fonts In Use 

• Type@Cooper 

• Muzli Collections, Design Inspiration

• I Love Typography

• Eureka Wood Type

• Typographic Resources for Printing via CartridgeSave

• Drawing on the right side of the brain, by Betty Edwards , 2012
  
  

• Béatrice Coron Books

• Bhavna Mehta: My Father's Letter
   

• The Art of Collage, video tutorials, Jason Dunda. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 

           Part I: Materials; Part II: Technique; Part III: History + Content
 

• Mark Making, a blog by Lynette Ubel. 

• Mark Making. “Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork. It can be loose and gestural or controlled and neat. It can apply to any material used on any surface: paint on canvas, ink or pencil on paper, a scratched mark on plaster, a digital paint tool on a screen, a tattooed mark on skin…even a sound can be a form of mark making.” Tate.org
   

• Slow Stitch, Claire Wellesley - Smith , 2015 Amazon

• The Papermaker's Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Making and Using Handmade Paper , by Helen Hiebert , 2000
• Washi: The Art of Japanese Paper Making, by Nancy Broadbent Casserley , 2013 Amazon

• Make a Flutter Book, a video by artist Rebecca Chamlee, Otis College of Art and Design 

• Live Virtual Fold Alongs,  Minnesota Center for Book Arts

• Reflections on five essential book-binding tools, Jeff Peachey

• The organic artist, by Nick Nedo , 2015 Amazon
• Make ink, by Jason Logan , 2018 Amazon
• Botanical inks, Babs Behan (Author), Kim Lightbody (Photographer)  Amazon
• The handbook of natural plant dyes, by Sasha Duerr, Timber Press Inc., 2010 

The Library will provide some tools in the Makerspace. Yet we recommend that you purchase the essential tools. They are largely inexpensive and it's nice to have your own so you can make/experiment anytime. You can consider purchasing optional tools if you find them useful. 
 

ESSENTIAL TOOLS

• Self-healing cutting matt (various sizes; consider the size of paper you want to cut on)
• Utility knife / Olfa / Xacto knife (the first two will last longer; the last is helpful when cutting very fine paper)
• Scissors (large, and small for finer details)
• Bone folder (to score, flatten creases, smooth surfaces)
• Awl (to make marks and holes; notice they range the sizes and sharpness)
• Pencils (H or softer) and erasers (friendly to paper surfaces)
   

MORE TOOLS

• Book-binding needle (if your zines will be made in pamphlet or other style that requires binding
• Linen thread (strong, will last a long time; notice the size variety)
• PVA (if you'd like to glue images, etc. to your zines, using archival quality glue)
• Triangle (a variety of sizes)
• Paper clips / Bulldog clips (to hold things together)
• Japanese hole punch (to drill through layers of paper easily, even through binder's board)

MATERIALS

• Paper
  Printing paper will be fine for practice or even "official zines." Yet there are also a variety of papers out there that you want to check out for the text and cover of your zines. Notice paper has grain direction. As a general rule, align your the spine of the book/zine parallel to the direction of the grain. Paper also has weight: light, text-weight, cover-weight, cardstock, board, and paper on a roll.
   
• Adhesives
  --Paste. You can prepare your own paste from rice starch, wheat starch, flour. You can recipes via Google.
  --PVA Adhesive: proven quality for archival purposes.
  --Mixture: Mix methyl cellulose with PVA (following package directions) so it is less thick and dries less fast than PVA.
  --Double-sided tape:" 3M #415 as archival quality (you can glue on a cover or images for your zine, etc.)

         (Source: The above information is synthesized from, The Art of the Fold (2017), by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol

SUPPLIERS

• Blick Art Materials, Fullerton, CA
• Art Supply Warehouse, Westminster, CA
• Michael's, various locations
• Joan's Fabric, various locations
   
• Hiromi Paper, Culver City, CA
• Artist and Craftsman Supply, San Diego, CA
• Some tools can also be found in local hardware stores and homedepot
   

Suppliers outside of California 

• Paper & Ink Arts: Paper, inks and paints, writing tools, artist tools.
• Talas Supplies: Conversation, archival, and book binding
• Colophon Book Arts Supply: Board, paper, cloth leather; binding supplies; marbling supplies, tools, books, etc. 
• John Neal Booksellers: Writing tools, ink and paint, book binding and more
• Hollanders: Decorative papers, bookbinding, and more
• The Japanese Paper Place (in Canada): Fine Japanese Paper, gifts, stationary, etc.