Esther K. Smith

Esther K. Smith’s Followers (23)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Esther hasn't connected with her friends on Goodreads, yet.


Esther K. Smith

Goodreads Author


Website

Genre

Member Since
December 2015


Esther K Smith wrote How to Make Books published November '07 by Potter Craft, an imprint of Random House. At Purgatory Pie Press in New York City, she makes limited editions and artist books with letterpress printer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. They designed much of How to Make Books, hand-setting antique wood type.

Purgatory Pie Press has had solo exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University and Smith College. Purgatory Pie Press editions are also in the rare book collections of Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, The National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran, the Tate, San Francisco MoMA, and the Walker Museum.

Esther K Smith has curated artist book exhibitions and has taught A
...more

Average rating: 4.13 · 4,501 ratings · 147 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
How to Make Books: Fold, Cu...

4.15 avg rating — 4,244 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Little Book of Book Making:...

by
3.90 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Magic Books & Paper Toys: F...

4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Making Books with Kids: 25 ...

by
4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
How to Make Books by Esther...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Paper Bride: Wedding DI...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
[How to Make Books: Fold, C...

by
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Esther K. Smith…
Quotes by Esther K. Smith  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“around. You can use the three-hole or five-hole stitch, or make up your own version. Some artists I know have worked with take-out menus, junk mail, fliers left on their car windshield wipers—it is fun to take ephemeral materials”
Esther K. Smith, How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book

No comments have been added yet.