me and collection: indonesian vintage craft books

I found these series of vintage craft books on duplex
in Bandung a couple of weeks ago when I was in
town for a short visit. They were piles of them at the
back displays and thanks to that one buddy who found them!
He got himself an awesome vintage children book album
from the 1970's. Oh what a lucky lucky finds!

Saya menemukan seri buku-buku kerajinan tangan triplex
dari tahun 70 an ini di sebuah toko buku tua yang tak
kalah cantiknya di Bandung. Tertumpuk-tumpuk di
belakang bersama dengan buku-buku tua lainnya, 
untung saja teman saya yang satu ini selalu begitu jeli
dan teliti di setiap kunjungan kita di toko buku!

me and exhibition: Codex Code!

It is a group exhibition where each artists make 

a book as their exhibition material.Initiated from

an art collective in Jogja this exhibition will be

touring to Jakarta and Bandung afterwards.

I make a book made of hankies with machine

embroidery with a message of feelings being

wipe away by a hankies.That's the cover, but

I will share you in details soon;)

Saya diundang menjadi salah satu artis yang ikut

berpameran di Codex Code, sebuah pameran 

dimana setiap artisnya membuat buku. Pameran

yang digagas oleh teman-teman dari Jogja dan 

kemudian keliling ke Jakarta dan Bandung ini

membuat saya mencoba membuat sebuah buku

dari saputangan bekas yang dibordir dengan 

pesan perasaan-perasaan yang diseka oleh selembar

saputangan:)

Sunny Sunday

Dear Frnss,
I would like to let you know how awesome it turned out
our spending Sunday together. Not only I got the chance
to show you some of my fave second hand books and 
flea markets; but I was so happy that you found all these!
Thank you for the chat, iced coffee, walk in the park and
the following after friendship and of course the secret
projects that we will and have made so far. You are one
hell of a young man and I am so proud that you are my
friend.


Sincerely,


Vantiani.

me and collection : vintage music page

I found this vintage musical book from 1800's
at my usual vintage book spot. It's a clipping of
several books that being bind together by someone
in Surabaya, East Java. The book is in pretty good
shape although some pages are being cut and stick
with tapes here and there.

For more pretty pages of this beautifully old music
page check out my flickr, friends.

me and my etsy: they are ready!

A set of 5 gorgeous bookplates for you and your books.

me and books: My Fairyland Annual

This book is instantly swoon me from the its title:
My Fairyland Annual 1972! It's a hardcover, printed in
Italy and distributed by this UK publisher.
It's like a small bibliography of all fairy stories
and writers includes their statues!

Unfortunately I couldn't find the name of the
illustrator. So if any of you outhere could tell me
I will be very grateful. Aren't those colors just so good?
My favorite one is the Fairy Flowers page:)

me and collection: vintage science book

Another book from the 1970's that I found
together with my previous science book
that I blogged the last time. This one is about
sound. Written by David Knight and illustrated
beautifully by Ullrick Schramm.

I really really love all those strong colors
and the style of Ullrick's drawing is so cool.
Don't you agree, folks?

me and books : cool coloring books

I have this one old book shop that always makes me
excitedly happy everytime I pay a visit. It has all
kinds of kitschy stationary and school books that
makes me feeling nostalgic. You know that kind of
feeling, right?

Now, these are some coloring books for children
that I found there last Sunday. Look at those
illustrations! Lovely! There are vegetables, flowers,
and birds series.

me and collages : a collective art book project

Some of my extremely talented friends from a band

called White Shoes and the Couples Company has

this awesome project in order to launch their new

single for the incoming new album this year.

They invite ten of their friends to make a visual
intrepretation of the lyric from that single and publish

it in a book that will be pack together with the CD.

Sweet, right?

Therefore I'm so happy when they invite me to
join on this book. The lyrics itself is about how
people from all over Indonesia come to Jakarta
to get a better life although they know how hard
life is in our capital city. The material should be
in black and white in A5 size. I made three pieces.
What do you think?

me and books : The Golden Book Of Science - 1964

Found this at our yearly Jakarta Book Fair last week

together with several gorgeous second hand children

books that I will share each of them in a separate post.

Yes, I love cutting out books but definitely not this one.

And I'm still try to find our local version of such a book,

unfortunately no luck yet. Have a fun friday you all!

me and collage: an old poetry book

I named her Lili. I made her out of an old thick notebook. At that
time I don't even know that these things called collage. I think I
slowly making her since 2000 starts with either written a poem
first or put the pictures first. I haven't been putting a new piece
on Lili for a year now although I'm still writing lots of poetry and
lyrics in my laptop named Daphne Descend. Yes, I named my
fave stuff. Don't you do the same sometime too?

Lili is more like a diary to me. Therefore I have been really picky
on whom that I share her with. Apart from my poetry, I also put
some poetry that my little sister or some long distance girlfriends
sent me, some poetry or lyrics from others that I like and

of course sometimes just for the sake of putting some lines that

I like with pictures on them. Now I'm thinking of making them

into art prints for my bed room. Hmmm....

Ps: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=56116

me and book: mother's favorite lullaby

there is this one second hand bookshop that i always

visit everytime i go to ubud, bali. the name of this

bookshop is Cinta, means love in english. it's really

interesting how i always find a beautiful illustrated

children book every time i check it out.

just like this one. i always love lino cut and wood cut

art so imagined how happy i was finding this book.

geri greinke (http://www.gerimack.com/) and her gorgeous

linoleoum cut prints. it's so worth it for my 5 dollars.

me and myself: in vector we trust

the illustrator in my office make this for his
children book project. i don't really like vector
but i have to admit this one turn out really cute.
don't you think?