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Following the footsteps of Danni at Oh Hello Friend, I’m participating at this SUPER giveaway that the Chronicle Books is having.

There are 2 ways to enter. For bloggers, you can post a list of Chronicle Books you’d love to own, up to $500 value. For blog reader, you can simply comment on that blogger’s post. If the blogger win, 1 lucky blog reader who posted a comment on the post will also win that blogger’s entire list of books! So, if you like my book list below, simply comment on this post :)

design
Creative Inc by Meg Ilasco and Joy Cho ($16.95)
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry ($35.00)
Euro Deco by Steven Heller and Louise Fili ($35.00)
This is For You by Rob Ryan ($16.95)
Pictorial Webster’s by John M Carrera ($35.00)
Business Cards 3 by Michael Dorrian and Liz Farrelly ($29.95)
Anatomy of The Sea by Dr. David Ponsonby ($16.95)

crafts
Print and Pattern by Bowie Style ($35.00)
Paper Cutting by Laura Heyenga ($27.50)
Paper + Craft by Minhee and Truman Cho ($19.95)
Amy Butler’s In Stitches by Amy Butler ($24.95)
Reprodepot Pattern Book: Flora by Djerba Goldfinger ($24.95)
Craft Inc by Meg Ilasco ($16.95)

printing
The Handy Book of Artistic Printing by Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas ($40.00)
The Printmaking Bible by Ann d’Arcy Hughes ($50.00)
Little Book of Letterpress by Charlotte Rivers ($24.95)

food + baking
I Love Macarons by Hisako Ogita ($14.95)
Flour by Joanne Chang with Christie Matheson ($35.00)

GRAND TOTAL: $500 even, wohoo! :)

I can’t believe I just found out that this book is out for sale already. Definitely can’t wait to get my hands on this soon!

It’s no secret that I love children books a lot. On my spare time (which rarely ever happened these days), I often go to the library and browse around their children book collection. I was on Flickr the other day and stumbled upon vintage children book collection by trywhistlingthis. She also did a marvelous job of keeping track of the author and illustrator names. What a delight!

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The first day of the last month in 2009! Oh wow, time flies so quickly! I know I’ve been MIA on the blog for days. One of the reason is of course the Thanksgiving holiday. Then, the final week is also coming and I’ve just been busy with school stuffs along with preparing for more stuffs for my Etsy store. Right now, we do have the 2010 Calendar in wall format and desktop format (with acrylic jewel case), so check it out! :)

In the midst of all this, today I managed to (finally) pick up my library book orders. I was tempted to spend more time in the library, and i did (even though I was supposed to go straight home). My favorite section is the children’s books where I usually just sit on the aisle and start to just picking books and read. I was really intrigued by this particular book by Maurice Sendak. I knew about Where The Wild Things Are, of course, but didn’t know that he also wrote and illustrate this book. I just love his unique story line, wittiness, and illustration style!

I really, really like this particular “kitchen town” illustration, where the buildings are in form of kitchen utensils and stuffs like mixer, funnel, milk carton, etc… I want to live there! :)

Oh, how I love Etsy browsing! This is such a cool book titled Thumb War by John Hersey. The book is hand-bound and letterpress printed in two colors using a Vandercook 4 at San Francisco Center for the Book. The covers are laser-cut into finish grade plywood, with a small number of them laser-cut into chipboard.

Book design has always been one of my passion in design. I’ve been browsing a lot about printmaking methods and i think this book is so awesome!

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This book has truly stole my heart! It’s filled with vintage design, typefaces, ornaments, borders and it’s just so, so charming.

This particular type treatment (Restraint) is actually designed by Marian Bantjes, one of my typography hero.