Jason Logan

In a bountiful book combining art and chemistry, a celebrated ink maker invites kids to become colour wizards – by foraging and transforming natural materials to make their own paint and artistic creations. In this book you will find secret recipes, magic formulas and wild experiments that will delight your friends, intimidate your enemies and turn you into a colour wizard! Featuring both photographs and the author's own gorgeous homemade-ink illustrations, How to Be a Colour Wizard is an ideal blend of art and science ... plus a little bit of magic.

"One of the most important messages you can tell young people is that their work is legitimate--that it counts. This book and its spirit take that message one step further and say that anything you can think to make your work from also counts." --Jon Klassen, Caldecott Medal winner What colors might await in a leafy forest, a berry-stained back alley, a seaweedy beach, or even the dark corners of an ordinary fridge? With this book as a guide, curious young wizards can make natural confetti, unlock the hidden color power inside a leaf, and craft a paintbrush wand. They'll brew magic potions from beets and acorn caps to produce their own colors, from the darkest black to the palest pink to invisible ink, then share their discoveries with friends, family, and the whole color-hungry human race. With whimsy and infectious enthusiasm, master ink maker Jason Logan explains the science of color while presenting "quests," recipes, and hands-on activities using materials kids can find in their own homes and neighborhoods. Featuring both photographs and the author's own gorgeous homemade-ink illustrations, How to Be a Color Wizard is an ideal blend of art and science--plus a little bit of magic.

In a bountiful book combining art and chemistry, a celebrated ink maker invites kids to become color wizards--by foraging and transforming natural materials to make their own paint and artistic creations. In this book you will find secret recipes, magic formulas, and wild experiments that will delight your friends, intimidate your enemies, and turn you into a color wizard. What colors might await in a leafy forest, a berry-stained back alley, a seaweedy beach, or even the dark corners of an ordinary fridge? With this book as a guide, curious young wizards can make natural confetti, unlock the hidden color power inside a leaf, and craft a paintbrush wand. They'll brew magic potions from beets and acorn caps to produce their own colors, from the darkest black to the palest pink to invisible ink, then share their discoveries with friends, family, and the whole color-hungry human race. With whimsy and infectious enthusiasm, master ink maker Jason Logan explains the science of color while presenting "quests," recipes, and hands-on activities using materials kids can find in their own homes and neighborhoods. Featuring both photographs and the author's own gorgeous homemade-ink illustrations, How to Be a Color Wizard is an ideal blend of art and science--plus a little bit of magic.

Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate--from flooding to sea level rise to volatile storms--as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions. No city in the United States is a synonymous with unbridled growth and land speculation as the sprawling Texas city of Houston. The book offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. It speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions. Though Houston is described as a city, its massive size makes it regional or even megaregional in scale--including a patchwork of satellite downtowns and suburbs, a vast floodplain of bayous and coastal prairie, as well as a long stretch of Gulf Coast. Its lack of zoning means ad hoc developments scatter across the landscape with little formal planning, where urban developments are always provisional and negotiable. Using maps, photographs, timelines, and collages, the book lays out the conditions for new urbanization in this fragile landscape.

Seasons come and go as years disappear into the past.But when the past comes back to gain its vengeance how can you stop it?How can you stop what you cannot see, what you cannot understand.The SOAN SAGA comes to a turbulent end in this thrilling conclusion to the violent series, as Winter has come to Chicago. One much colder and more violent than it has ever seen before, and one that comes with a purpose. A mission, a crusade that must end, one way or another. Carl Johnson and Jade Foster race against time to save the last of a dying line, while a story no-one knew, takes over their lives.All journeys have an end, and even the fastest runner eventually gets caught. Deaths hands are cold, and its embrace will consume your soul.

A 2018 Best Book of the Year—The Guardian The Toronto Ink Company was founded in 2014 by designer and artist Jason Logan as a citizen science experiment to make eco-friendly, urban ink from street-harvested pigments. In Make Ink, Logan delves into the history of inkmaking and the science of distilling pigment from the natural world. Readers will learn how to forage for materials such as soot, rust, cigarette butts, peach pits, and black walnut, then how to mix, test, and transform these ingredients into rich, vibrant inks that are sensitive to both place and environment. Organized by color, and featuring lovely minimalist photography throughout, Make Ink combines science, art, and craft to instill the basics of ink making and demonstrate the beauty and necessity of engaging with one of mankind’s oldest tools of communication.

The wars are over, but Death still walks the earth, its darkness takes the town of Monksville; a blood-fueled reign of terror that can have only one end. Sheriff Brian Simpson struggles to save his people from the killer besieging his small town. He races against time, but how can you catch what you cannot see? How many can survive the coming storm? Nothing much happens in a small town in Mississippi, it is a quiet life, filled with good God-fearing people. The town of Monksville has been such a peaceful little place for a hundred years. Until the darkness descends upon them, a plague of death from an unseen shadow cast ever more over their unsuspecting town. A long-held debt they never knew they had is about to be paid in blood, and only Brian Simpson stands in the way. He will call on all the help he can, but will it be enough against an unseen assassin who moves like the wind? This suspenseful introduction to the SOAN SAGA is a Horror/Thriller that will keep you guessing while causing you to think twice about your next visit to the woods.