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What are the Qualities of Good Signs that are Eye-catching and Valuable?

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023 by Hannie Mommers

There are good signs and there are bad signs. To know the qualities of good signs we just have to look around and experience the signage that surrounds us.

Don’t you agree that a lot of signs are confusing? Our environment is so full of messages, promotions, and both visual and auditory noise, that it’s hard to focus on the signs that we need at a specific moment.

Still, some signs are marvellous. In a way, it’s a pity that the better the design is, the less we notice the signs because they do their job instantly and without complicating things.

A Japanese Bookbinding Tutorial to Save Your Art Sustainable

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 by Hannie Mommers

Lately, I’ve been making a lot of collages and cyanotypes on heavy paper. I keep most of them in a drawer where they subsequently rarely come out.

That’s why I was looking for a way to bind the nicest ones into a booklet that I can easily take with me to show to others.

In another article, I described how to make booklets from plain paper, but these methods were unsuitable for thicker paper or single sheets. The Japanese bookbinding method I have tried is perfect.

How to Make a Booklet by Folding Paper as a Marvellous Gift

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 by Hannie Mommers

Sometimes the budget is scarce and the wish to make an outstanding item is big. For example, you want to have a great present for a birthday or anniversary. Or you want a gift as a souvenir at a customer meeting, like a friend and I did.

In this article, I explain how to make a booklet by folding it, without the need for any other resources but paper and an A3 printer.

And I show another way of folding a booklet for which you don’t need a printer unless you want to use text.

2019 171 Reading

February 19, 2022June 20, 2019 by Hannie Mommers

I am reading a real book! I read about 3 books a week, but that are all e-books. It’s been quite a while I read a real book 🙂 It is a present from the only other Dutch person in our neighborhood. Isn’t that nice?

2019 091 Making my hands dirty

February 19, 2022April 1, 2019 by Hannie Mommers

After we moved we worked our b*tt off to make everything the way we wanted. But didn’t perfect it. So the books were out of the boxes onto the bookshelves, but not in the right order. Getting that okay is quite a job. And boring. So I have assigned myself now with half an hour … Read more

Annoying Design Doesn’t Serve the Reader nor the Writer

January 21, 2022August 7, 2010 by Hannie Mommers

I’m reading a book with a really annoying design! The content isn’t bothering me; I can’t judge that yet, because I’m not beyond page 25 at the moment.

No, I find “De ultieme kudde“, which is a Dutch translation of the book “Herd” an annoying book because of the cover with a rear flap folded too tight, leaving part of the interior open and exposed.

This looks like the nowadays visible underpants of the youth because of their sagging jeans. (Ah, and this book is right about phenomenons like sagging pants!).