I’ve just finished packaging the first 40 copies of my newest artists’ book, Alpha Blocks. Would you believe that this project began in 1986? I was studying abroad in Germany for a year and stumbled across the font Block Up in an old letraset catalog. I was captivated with the idea of bringing the two-dimensional font printed on paper to life, so I decided to render it in three dimensions. When I took on the task of writing Playing With Pop-Ups about a year ago, I started thinking about the font Block Up again. And since I have been producing artists’ books for the past 10 years or so, it seemed like a good fit to publish Alpha Blocks. But oh, the decisions! First of […]