The Line : An Adventure into the Unknown
The Line : An Adventure into the Unknown بقلم Keri Smith ... A deceptively simple adventure into the unknown using only paper, a pencil and a single line Wreck This Journal had a simple premise: destroy the book in all the ways you can imagine. The Line is even simpler: find pencil, start a line. As you move through the pages of Keri Smith's newest book, you'll be asked to let your line meander, explore the book's gutter, and jump around the edges of the pages. You'll hide your line, cut your line and even let someone else take over your line for a bit. The farther you get into the book, however, the more you'll discover that maybe things aren't as simple as they first seemed. The line has a mind of its own, and it's up to you to discover what's at the end of the line (hint: it's just the beginning).
Author
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Keri Smith
Keri Smith is a Canadian author, illustrator and conceptual artist. According to her website, "The main focus of [Smith's] work/research is on creating what the writer Umberto Eco called 'Open works', pieces that are completed by the reader/user."Most of her books encourage readers to expand their scopes of creativity, such as in Wreck This Journal, where she has readers do things to the book itself rather than having readers simply draw or color within the book's pages. Besides Wreck This Journal, her other bestsellers include Mess and This Is Not A Book. She has also written for How Magazine.
Smith is also a freelance illustrator and has worked for Random House, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, as well as for Ford Motor Company, Gallison/Mudpuppy Press and Hallmark. Until 2011, she gave lectures on various topics for schools and organizations across North America.
Since fall 2010, she teaches part-time at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada