Wreck This Journal
Think of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist s Artist s Way — the book for those who ve always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it.

For anyone who s ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book featuring a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake – and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).

This Is Not a Book
You will discover that this book can be:

A secret message – tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place.

A recording device – have everyone you contact today write their name in the book.

An instrument – create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover.

This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, If it s not a book, what is it then? – with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.

Mess
In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance — on purpose.

Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet); draw in the dark (or with eyes closed); creatively misspell words; paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen, marker, watercolour, etc) and leave it out during a rain or snowstorm; and bury this book, then dig it up.

This book is unlike any other you ve encountered and will allow you to open yourself up to the possibility of creating something new and unexpected.

The Pocket Scavenger
Welcome to the highly inspirational world of Keri Smith. Within the pages of The Pocket Scavenger, readers will be instructed to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more. Then, once their quarry is in hand, they ll apply an alteration dictated solely by chance: create a funny character, conceal it, add polkadots, remove a section, add stripes, scribble on top, duplicate it (make a copy), fold, cut into pieces & rearrange, turn into an article of clothing, trace it use the shape as basis for a new drawing, make it pretty , and so on. It s funny, moving, silly and serious. The way you look at things will never be the same again.