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!

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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! :)

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