{"id":5729,"date":"2013-05-27T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:22:25","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-susan-collard-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/book-artist-of-the-month-susan-collard-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Susan Collard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3x3-susancollard\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2010, Susan Collard<\/a> created 3×3<\/em><\/a> a series of board books made from birch aircraft plywood, maple and walnut bound with Tyvek. Each page spread represents a single number ranging from one to nine. For Susan, numbers have definitive personalities that sprout from their mathematical associations. As Susan developed each numerical character sketch she began with a few poetic words (on the verso) before morphing into a collaged “portrait” (on the recto).\u00a0<\/p>\n

3×3<\/em> was featured in Quantified Aesthetics<\/a>, an exhibit held at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts<\/a> in 2010.<\/p>\n

\"3x3-susancollard2\"<\/a> \"3x3-susancollard3\"<\/a> \"3x3-susancollard4\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2010, Susan Collard created 3×3 a series of board books made from birch aircraft plywood, maple and walnut bound with Tyvek. Each page spread represents a single number ranging from one to nine. For Susan, numbers have definitive personalities that sprout from their mathematical associations. 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