e bond is a designer + artist + writer + bookbinder & educator. Currently, she teaches art workshops
& creates fabric collections by day, makes artists' books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks, she makes one-of-a-kind books, printed pieces and abstract drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of art, craft, surface design, printmaking, and poetry.
e holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from Moore College of Art & Design and an MFA in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College. She has spent years as a professor of Graphic Design and Book Art in various college and university art departments, and her work is held in library collections across the US. e’s work has been published in Pressing Matters Magazine, Uppercase Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, 500 Handmade Books, as well as numerous books (about books). Most recently, her work has moved into the wonderful world of surface design where she designs colorful, abstract fabric collections in collaboration with Free Spirit Fabrics. You can learn more at ebondwork.com or on Instagram as @eisroughdraft.