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We asked Mike Joyce, the creative force behind Swissted, the awesome new book of rock and roll posters remixed in Swiss Modernist style, to share some of the people, places, and things that shaped him into the punk fan he is today.

Join Cooking with Flowers author Miche Bacher this Saturday, March 9 at the Philadelphia Flower Show for a tasty floral demonstration!

This year's awesome Philadelphia Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center will feature a Garden to Table Studio with fantastic, flowery demos from chefs including Miche Bacher: pastry chef, flower connoisseur, and Quirk author! Miche will be serving a lovely hibiscus chutney to celebrate the show's theme of all things British: Brilliant! 

Do stop by on Saturday, March 9th at 3 PM for a taste of spring to come! Admission to the Studio is included with the price of a ticket.

Garden to Table Studio at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Pennsylvania Convention Center
12th and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19107 (map)

Cooking with Flowers will hit stores April 2.

We’re no strangers to book series. There have been numerous series to capture our hearts: The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz, Anne of Green Gables. However, the books I’m talking about today are part of a different category of serialized books. These are the books that you spent many weekend hours trying to collect, searching for that one you were missing, hoping to finish a complete set.

These books don’t need to be read in a specified order. Sure they’re numbered, but only to hook us collectors and make us feel incomplete if the books on our shelf don’t follow the perfect sequence. No, each title is a new adventure with familiar characters and they create a certain kind of charm that we still can’t resist.

Come join Craft-A-Day's Sarah Goldschadt in Brooklyn on March 16 for a craft-packed day of DIY and a giveaway from Quirk Books!

We're thrilled to share that the wonderful Sarah Goldschadt will be hosting a Craft-A-Day bar at the Brooklyn Craft Camp in Greenpoint, a daylong festival of activites, food, and awesome crafting–all with your fellow do-it-yourselfers. Stop by to see Sarah and whip up a little something for yourself, then stay for the day and enjoy four 90-minute sessions with other knitters, painters, glue-ers, and makers. The day begins with coffee & donuts and ends with cocktails & snacks, and features a keynote lunch in between with Jay McCarroll of Project Runway fame. 

And since we're so excited to be part of all the craftitutde, Quirk will be giving away some awesome prizes: tote bags, a pack of all our craft books, and–of course–copies of Craft-A-Day

In short: it's like camp, for grown-ups, with only Arts & Crafts (and food) plus a chance to win craft books from Quirk. Don't miss out!

Brooklyn Craft Camp
Saturday, March 16th
10 AM — 7 PM

Greenpoint Lutheran Church of the Messiah
129 Russell Street
(between Driggs and Nassau Avenue)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (map)

Advance registration is required, with a $275 fee to cover food and supplies.

Craft-A-Day is available now.

One is the Dark Knight, a vigilante hero that fights to bring sanity to his world and peace to his life. After watching the brutal murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne made the decision to dedicate his life to bringing the scum and insanity that had taken over his home of Gotham City to justice. Along with Robin, the Boy Wonder, he operates in darkness and calls himself The Batman.

That’s right: March 2, 1904, is the birthday of Dr. Seuss, a.k.a Theodore Seuss Geisel.

We’re lucky to live in a word that contains The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who, and all the other frub-bubbulous books of Dr. Seuss… but have you ever wondered what it would be like in a world in which every book was written by Dr. Seuss? Probably not, because you use your brain for other things.

But in honor of the man who proved that a fox can indeed walk around in socks, we’ve used the Quirk Books Literary Atom-Smasher to bring you these well-known opening lines from a few great works of literature, as Dr. Seuss might have improved them. Enjoy!

from A Tale of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, and Two Cities
by Dr. Seuss

Best times,
Worst times,
Wise times,
Blurst times.

Blue times,
Light times,
Fool times,
Night times.

These peasants don’t have anything,
Those nobles have their gold and rings.
But look, here comes the guillotine.

What happens at the guillotine?
I don’t know, go ask the king.

—

from Green Eggs and Ham and Ulysses
By Dr. Seuss

-I am Buck.
-Buck I am.
-Stately, plump Buck Mulligan
-Do you like green eggs and ham?
-Tell me something, Mulligan,

-Won’t you make Haines go away?
–Introibo ad altare Dei.
-I do not like green eggs and ham,
-I do not like them, Mulligan.

-I will not eat them while you shave,
-I will not eat them in a cave.
-I will not eat them when it rains
-I will not eat them with that Haines
-I will not eat them in a shed
-And by the way, my mom’s still dead.

—

from Oh, The Places Moby Dick Will Go, or Horton Hears A Whale
by Dr. Seuss

A long time ago in a New England town,
Horton the Elephant wandered around.
His mood went from glum to gloomy to worse,
He hadn’t a single coin left in his purse.
He thought that the only solution would be
To take a long voyage out on the sea.
When all of the sudden he heard a small cry
From a speck of dust spiraling down from the sky.
“How odd,” Horton said, “But I’ll answer that call,”
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
“Who are you?” he asked it, “And where do you dwell?”
And then a voice said, “Call me Ishmael.”

—

from The Moof-Merkulous Metamorphosis of Bartholomew Cubbins
By Dr. Seuss

The sun has come up
But this man’s still in bed
It seems that he barely
Can lift up his head.

He tries to roll over
And onto the rug
But finds out he’s somehow
Turned into a bug.

“I’m a roach,” moans the man
“Somehow I’ve have changed.
The parts of my body
are all rearranged!”

“My legs are all wiggly,
And six is too many.
My head is now topped with
Long, pointy antennae.”

“I look like a cockroach!
I feel like a jerk!
And the worst thing of all is
I’ll be late for work!”