Book By Its Cover » Sketchbook Series: Alison Worman

2.25.11

Sketchbook Series: Alison Worman

Today I am excited to share a beautiful bunch of sketchbooks by a talented student of Maryland Institute College of Art (aka MICA). Alison Worman is only a junior majoring in Fibers and Book Arts, but her work is already so well developed. She says ” I am interested in the way that collage, fabric and sewing techniques can be applied to the form of the book. I explore these relationships frequently in my sketchbooks.” Her books are exploding with fabric, stitching, collage and drawings. Each spread is a new interesting composition made from so many different layers of materials. The mixtures of techniques are exciting: a series of stitches fills in the head area of a collaged magazine photo, a circular cutting of tracing paper sits over a collage and ink drawing. I am intrigued to see what Alison will do next. I would love to see an enormous version similar to her sketchbook work. A giant drawing/collage/stitched piece. You can keep up with Alison’s work on her blog here. She is working on a lot of cool projects.

21 Comments

02/25/11 9:22am

Chic Done Cheap wrote

I love sketch books, I’ve kept all of mine from college.

-Chic Done Cheap

02/25/11 9:33am

Daniel Hertzberg wrote

Lovely explorations with colors, textures, stitches and collages.

02/25/11 9:57am

Tracey wrote

pretty amazing…

02/25/11 10:20am

s. arden hill wrote

gorgeous work. I’d love to see an exhibition of these.

02/25/11 3:57pm

JoJo wrote

Wow! All things I love – fabric, books, collage, sewing and Alison.

02/26/11 3:36am

seb cazes wrote

wow great, i’d like to touch them all and feel the textures, i love when sketchbooks are two times as bigger in the end

02/26/11 5:34am

Netina wrote

wow the sketchbook look amazing! Wish I could see every page of them.

02/26/11 6:46pm

Dana Barbieri wrote

These pages are STUNNING! Maybe my favorite ever.

02/27/11 8:50am

Amy wrote

gorgeous! i love when artists are so free in their sketchbooks. and all the tactile elements in this one make me wish i could flip through them in person!

02/28/11 12:49pm

Frank Lutz wrote

Ali – The images are wonderful as I’ve come to expect and it’s great to get this public attention.
The question I have is whether or not there is some loose narrative to each book, or are they just individual pages with no connecting link beyond being bound together?
Is that too much like a teacher question?

03/1/11 1:29pm

Jane wrote

She really stretches the imagination. I like her hold me closer hands on her blog site.

03/2/11 12:15am

sirada.a@gmail.com wrote

love it. Inspire me a lot. Thank you.

03/3/11 11:39pm

Meg wrote

Beautiful sketchbook. I’ve always been a fan of people’s sketchbooks- unselfconscious and free. I love the experimentation with the mixed medias.

03/6/11 6:21am

Kristine wrote

this is amazing… love the exploration of fabrics

03/9/11 3:13pm

Kimi wrote

Wow these are incredible!

If your a fan of sketchbooks check out PAPERBOUND.TUMBLR.COM. Its a place were people can share pages from their sketchbooks/notebooks online! Anyone can submit work. Send all submissions to KIMIHANAUER@YAHOO.COM. Thanks!

03/13/11 3:30am

Hermine - Journal de jours wrote

Soo soo soo beautiful, would love to go true these ones.

04/11/11 3:03pm

rip brown wrote

Drop dead gorgeous brilliant, takes the cake of all cakes. And all I need is a simple book cover design for my soon to be published novel…

04/13/11 3:47pm

Z wrote

love the books, love the fabrics, love all

06/19/11 1:27am

Susan Charlotte wrote

Your sketchbooks appear so tactile and colourful. Art works in themselves.

12/22/11 9:43pm

Office 2010 wrote

This article is GREAT it can be EXCELLENT JOB and what a great tool!

08/12/12 7:40pm

Carmen Schultheis wrote

Very cool, reminds me of all the art journals I have with collected images and fabric swatches.

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