#design projects and book arts

[welcome-to-craftyland]

fold some zines!

I’m a big zine collector – they’re fun to make and easy to collect, distribute, and trade with fellow zinesters and DIYers. 

Zines are self-published small circulation magazines or books. They often showcase literary work, artwork and illustration, political themes, work related to specific media or fan-content, & many other themes and topics. 

These foldable zines are great since they only use one piece of printer paper, and fold so you have a cover, a back, and six inside pages to decorate to your heart’s desire.

Start off with a piece of regular 8.5 x 11” printer paper.  

Fold the paper in half, top to bottom. A bone folder (folding tool) makes this a little easier.   

Next, fold this in half once again, left to right.  

Fold once more, left to right. It should be pretty small. Next, unfold the paper.  

You should have eight even sections. Fold the paper again, short end to short end.  

Use scissors or a craft knife to cut the center line.  

Fold the paper top to bottom again, and hold the paper at either end to fold it into a mini booklet. See illustration.

Use art supplies to customize the little blank book. Make a cool cover! Write and illustrate a short comic! Make a cute playlist, collaborate with a friend. One great thing about these little folded zines is that they can be unfolded and photocopied, so you can produce a bunch and distribute them to people around you. Trade zines with a pal! Make your own little personal zine library!

[namarikonda]

🏕️🕯️ Vigil, Sacristan of the Forgotten & paladin of Sepulchrophos created for @sleepywyrm_ed ! [ leftover sales ]

[cascadecomic]

I've finally finished the pilot chapter for the comic I'm starting!

Thank you very much for reading - I hope you enjoyed, and I hope I got you to look forward to more. More will come, and you will find it here on this blog when it does! There will also be additional side material sprinkled throughout between releases. I'm planning on setting up a more official distribution platform later, but if you want to receive updates without checking this blog, you can send an email (any email) to cascadeupdate@gmail.com and new updates will be sent directly to you!

I've got a couple years worth of material plotted out, and work is underway on the next installment. This is meant to serve as a hook for the story, an intro to the protagonist, and a sort of technical proof-of-concept for the marriage of my graphite work with digital editing. In addition, it's a small slice of what you can expect from the story going forward: a primarily character-driven drama with elements of horror and a heavy focus on fantastical ecology.

If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to share!

[crystallizsch]

yuusha loungewear??? i suppose???

+ more frozen references have at ye—

also the ghosts actually made the outfit for her using ramshackle's curtains and yuusha doesn't really have the heart to get a "better" one (+ she thinks there's nothing particularly wrong with it in her opinion anyway so why bother)

[garadinervi]

Bernadette Mayer, (1978), The Golden Book of Words, New Directions, New York, NY, 2025

Plus: Book Launch: Bernadette Mayer's 'The Golden Book of Words', The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, NY, May 19, 2025. Readers include: Lee Ann Brown, Brenda Coultas, Helen Decker, Marcella Durand, Gia Gonzales, Philip Good, Shiv Kotecha, Sarah Steadman, Morgan Võ, Meagan Washington, and Marie Warsh

[sleep-deprived-luka]

Gog au niigo for tonights doodle

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

for ruis birthday i gave him 4 seconds of attention (edit: there’s some ramblings about this design in the tags of my main blog’s reblog in the notes if anyone’s curious!)

[byoldervine]

Another thing about not worrying if your work is good or bad is that… well, if you’re always annoyed at yourself for what you’ve created, not only will your creation seem worse to you than it actually is, but you’ve also ruined the experience for yourself

If you’re always getting annoyed or upset when you create things, you’ll associate those feelings with being creative. And that’s just one more roadblock to Doing The Thing

[boarloved-art]

from now until april i may or may not be falling off the face of the earth in terms of fanart btw 😁😁

[gen4grl]

dad red! 🍎🍊

[welcome-to-craftyland]

typographic map poster

This simple map project makes a lovely poster that is a great custom gift for a friend or family member, or just as a reminder of an important place in your life.

Trace the outline of a city with a pencil on a big piece of paper. Use art supplies to fill in the map with many words and phrases in different lettering styles. Use newspaper headlines, song lyrics, poetry, neighborhood names, interesting facts, or anything that gives words to the city you love. Use an eraser to lightly remove any pencil marks. I scanned mine and made a neat poster, printed on 11 x 17 paper.

Also: If the area of the world you picked doesn't have large bodies of water or a coastline to paint, you can always do the city or county boundaries or border!

[goyejo]

Dragon’s Playground!

One of my all time favorite pieces I did in 2024, omg it was such a fun assignment. Combining Highlights inspired illustrated spreads with goofy dragons felt great from start to finish.

[wanderingdesertrose]

For a book that came out eight months ago, Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson sure has a lot of covers.

top left: US standard cover, art by Carlos Guimerà

top right: special edition cover, art by Howard Lyon

bottom left: UK cover, art by Sam Green

bottom right: promotional cover (before the title was announced), art by Steve Argyle

[crimsonmonsoon]

If you can’t tell I am entirely obsessed with this guy

[garadinervi]

The Poetry Project: April Readings, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York, NY, 1977 [designer/artist not identified] [Granary Books, New York, NY]

Readers include: Denise Levertov, Barbara Guest, Susan Howe, James Merrill, Richard Howard, Lewis MacAdams, Ted Greenwald, Barbara Baracks, Tom Johnson, Jim Brodey, Dave Burrell, Didi Susan Dubelyew, with Mike Sappol, and Phill Niblock with Armand Schwerner. Writing workshops with Jim Brodey, Bill Zavatsky, and Barbara Guest

[theartsoflilo]

HELLO TUMBLR PEOPLEEE hope everyone’s doing ok! It’s been a while since I posted here, so I figured I’d share a huge new project I’m working on! This is the cover for a comic book I’m making featuring my newest original story “Primen”! I talk a little bit more about the project on my insta.

Here’s a line up of the main protagonists! They’re a group of young adults, a part of the alien species known as the “Primarians”.

Also gonna share a little snippet of the comic book script that goes a bit into their backstory lore 👀

That’s all for now! Will be sharing the progress of this project as I go 👀