Reading, researching, designing, everything but bookbinding

Lately the only book I've cracked is this:

Getting ready to visit the Middle Kingdom, yeah!

In bookbinding news, I picked up some cover paper for the Steel Bridge edition in Seattle, and couldn't resist this lovely piece of chiyogami:

Speaking of the Steel Bridge, here are some inspiration photos I shot a couple of weeks ago. We not only caught the brige at sunset, we saw it lift. How lucky is that?

Steel Bridge detail. Gunmetal gray and rust. Not to mention riveting.