Keri Smith

Keri Smith is a Canadian author, illustrator and conceptual artist. Smith is known for encouraging readers to expand their scopes of creativity such as the best seller Wreck This Journal,[1][2] 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.

Keri Smith
NationalityCanadian
Notable work
Wreck This Journal
StyleConceptual arts, illustration
Websitehttp://www.kerismith.com/

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."[3]

Her work includes topics such as imperfection and impermanence from a visual arts perspective.[4] Smith is also a freelance illustrator and has worked for Random House,[5] 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. And in 2013 she became "Resident Thinker" for the piece Nowhereisland[6] by artist Alex Hartley in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Bibliography

Awards
  • Digital Book Award, Best App (2014) The Pocket Scavenger app won in the category Adult Non-Fiction[8]

References
  1. "Keri Smith's Latest Book". Time. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  2. "Wreck This Journal (Black) Expanded Ed. by Keri Smith: 9780399161940 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  3. "Bio « Keri Smith".
  4. Brodnitz, Dan (2008-02-03). "An Interview with Keri Smith". About Creativity. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  5. "Keri Smith". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  6. "Alex Hartley, Nowhereisland". Situations. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  7. Wander (2017-02-20). "The Wander Society". Edinburgh Book Review. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  8. "The Pocket Scavenger Wins Best App At Digital Book Awards". Citrus Suite. 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2020-09-05.


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