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Utsuwa
A piece must be practical enough to be used every day. It must be crafted at its place of origin, using traditional techniques and materials. And it must be handmade. Japanese craft has long been revered for its quality and beauty, and skilled craftwork remains an important part of Japanese life. 'Utsuwa', meaning 'for everyday use', embodies the ethos of handmaking in Japan, where handcrafted wares must be as practical as they are beautiful. This book takes us behind the scenes into the private studios of some of Japan's most exciting artisans to reveal stories of material, method, place and culture. It guides us through quiet galleries and colourful marketplaces, where the provenance of a piece is central to its story. Utsuwa is a love letter to the makers and sellers, and to all those who share the Japanese reverence for tradition and beauty.
Earth & Fire
Earth and fire represent the two elements that produce a ceramic object. Without the other they are simply components; together they create both practical objects and pieces of art. Working as both primer and inspiration, Earth and Fire explores the techniques, practices and tools of over forty-five working ceramicists. Creating everything from woodfired and fine porcelain wares, sculptured vases, everyday cups, bowls and plates, to jewellery and wall pieces, these artists work in a wide range of styles and mediums to create their ceramics. Although the methods vary, the overall sentiment is that the earth and fire that the artists use to make their objects are the ultimate masters. Just when they think they know one thing, the clay, glaze and heat will teach them another. There will always be more to learn. Working with clay is, quite simply, humbling. Written and compiled by Kylie Johnson and Tiffany Johnson, Earth & Fire captures the diverse beauty and utility of ceramics, demonstrating that clay doesn't just get under your fingernails; it gets under your skin.
Melancholy and Bright
In this exquisitely produced book, Kylie Johnson has curated a collection of classic and rare quotes featured over the past decade in her ceramic and paper work. Spanning everything from love to loss, to family and friendship and the whimsy of life, the quotes offer inspiration or solace, moving from the melancholy to the bright. Illustrated with Kylie s beautiful art, "Melancholy and Bright" is the perfect gift for anyone inspired by words of wisdom and truth."
A Once Courageous Heart
This new volume of Kylie Johnson's exquisite poems and illustrations is full of wistful romance and simple humanity. This is a beautifully crafted and designed book, which is both inspiring and uplifting.
Count Me the Stars
Visual poet Kylie Johnson’s simple words have the power to calm a chaotic world, at least momentarily. A hopeful romantic, Johnson’s poems that are both whimsical and profound in their exploration of love, loss, and hope, and all that it is to be human. count me the stars is a beautiful, embellished hardcover gift book with exquisite illustrations featured throughout.
The Rich Boy
I’m the type of girl who’s given up on fairy tales. So when Beck – the hot new busboy at work – starts flirting with me, I know better than to get my hopes up. Happily ever afters aren’t for the average. I learned that the hard way. But how can I be expected to resist a man who can quote Austen, loves making me laugh, and seems to be everything hot and good in this world? Only there’s so much more to him than that. Billionaire playboy? Check. Troubled soul? Check. The owner of my heart, the man I’ve moved halfway across the country to be with, who’s laying the world at my feet in order to convince me to never leave? Check. Check. Check. But nobody does complicated like the on...
Wisdom and Wonder
In this beautifully produced book, poet Kylie Johnson has curated a collection of classic and rare quotes. Spanning everything from love and loss, to family, friendship and the whimsy of life, these quotes offer both inspiration and solace, moving from the melancholy to the bright. Illustrated with Kylie's beautiful art, and with quotes from celebrated and historic figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln, Wisdom and Wonder is the perfect gift for anyone inspired by words of wisdom and truth.
soft meteorites
When assembling my work, I assembled myself, laid out on an autopsy table (of sorts). And soft meteorites presented itself as three themes – art, death, and friendship. In soft meteorites Nathan Shepherdson has installed a type of two-way valve that attaches the page to the flesh. Moments are emptied of words then refilled with fresh observations. The pulse quietly excludes standard angles for a free-form geometry that collects spiralling perspectives. He sings inside the silence he listens to. Meditations are a material. Sometimes lean and elegant, almost emaciated. At other times the complexities compound themselves under lingua-thermal pressure, moving very fast, jumping ship like a sai...
Alas Poor Johnny
In 1951 Buster Johnson moved from Surrey to Exmoor with her husband Johnny, four children, a couple of dogs and a vanload of pigs and poultry. Naturally gregarious, she exchanges a life of domestic servants and bridge parties for a remote and spartan existence at West Nethercote, a farm in the heart of Exmoor national park. Alas Poor Johnny, written some ten years later, is her vivid and fascinating account of their life there, and of farming on Exmoor in the fifties, told with a strong sense of drama and of the absurd. The void left by her lost cultural and social pursuits becomes filled by the minutiae of everyday life, and by her husband Johnny and their four children. Above all, it is fi...
Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days
This guide teaches readers how to design and implement their an open source database. Topics include designing and creating a database; normalizing data; adding tables, columns and indexes; importing and exporting data; administering, optimizing and troubleshooting My SQL; and locks and keys.
