Journal Your Way: Designing and Using Handmade Books

by Gwen Diehn

Custom tailor a journal that's just right for you! With step-by-step illustrations and instructions for more than sixteen formats and 10 cover styles, Gwen Diehn celebrates the art of making and using a personalized journal. Inspiring images showcase a rich variety of working journals, fascinating sidebars introduce longtime journal keepers, and nine lucky recipients of customized, handcrafted journals from the author share their own pages. Two additional insert booklets, Bookbinding Essentials and Choose Your Own Bookbinding Adventure, explain basic techniques and guide you on your journaling adventure. Whether you're an artist in need of a sketchbook or a vacationer searching for the perfect place to write notes and store snapshots, you'll find it right here! Previously published in hardcover as Live & Learn: Real Life Journals.

Genres: Journaling, Crafts, Art, Nonfiction

180 pages, Paperback

First published August 6, 2013

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars. Very good book that uses a "select your own bookbinding adventure" style to help you put together a journal perfectly suited to your requirements. Recommended.

[Emma Sea]

requested via library

[Kristi · Rating 3 out of 5]

As Diehn's other bookbinding books, there is good information to be found in here. I thought the presentation, in the form of "Choose Your Own Bookbinding Adventure" unique. For those just getting started binding beyond a simple pamphlet stitch who have no other bookbinding books yet, this would be a decent place to start. Diehn does a good job of stepping the reader through the decision-making process. Anyone who has read and put into practice any of Diehn's other books probably doesn't need this kind of handholding when choosing what binding and cover style will best serve their future journal's purpose.

[Bonnie White · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool book on journal/book making. Instructional. Cool ideas.

[elaynne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book of great ideas in journal and/or bookmaking