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Boston, March 6-9, 2013

"To Die No More is an artist's book about the marvelous embroideries of death taken from many sources both known and long forgotten.
170 fragments - from Aries to Wittgenstein - collected and edited by Herbert Pfostl and Kristofor Minta with splinters by Kristofor Minta, ruins, appropriated by James Walsh, and small paintings of shipwrecks, animals, and ashes by Herbert Pfostl.
Made with great care and sober like a good dream.
Dedicated to the deeply dead and the truly living.
2oo pages text - 25 color images"

John Latham (1921‑ 2006)
at the Tate

Anne Carson's Antigonick

initial meeting last year (27 June 2011).

"These three brief videos feature Boston’s Harcourt Bindery master
bookbinder Sam Ellenport on how he chose his career, running a business, and the how the current information revolution echoes that which followed the invention of the printing press."

Tom Cox, Guardian, 30 March 2012

Tom Cox's bookshelves were less about him than about a stranger he subconsciously imagined would one day visit his house – and so began the great sort

Recipe book for decorated paper
Germany, late nineteenth century. Paper, 132 leaves, 179 x 112 mm. With samples. PC Des 3, fol. 73v-74r
via: http://simongoode.tumblr.com/

on book design, by The Gentle Author

flickr set, to exhibition January 17 - February 19, 2012
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School

Artists: Steven Daiber, Pati Scobey, Barbara Tetenbaum, Wilber H. Schilling, Kathy Kuehn, Julie Chen
Curated by Ruth Roger, Curator of Special Collections, Wellesley College

via http://briandettmer.com/

Cloud Book Study, 2011. 6 x 9 x 2 in., 752-page hardbound digital-offset printed book and 50-second video. The book and video are intended to be viewed together.

Texts selected for their distinctive cultural, legal, or linguistic structures are typeset, and then flipped over and used as printing plates.

"an augmented-reality book of poems" by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse.

Brown University and the University of Tulsa.

see reviews/interviews.

Huffington Post, 30 January 2012 ¶ a discussion of the work presented in Masters: Book Arts by Eileen Wallace
Lark Books: Asheville, 2011.
ISBN-13: 9781600594977 (paper). 330pp. $24.95.

good content. see also his RISD thesis work (in collaboration with others) at http://risd.gd/MFA/2011/

27 jan - 8 apr 2012, 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine - Metz (57)
Curator : Anja Isabel Schneider
Anna Barham, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Alejandro Cesarco, Amélie Dubois, Dora García, Fabio Kacero, David Lamelas, Ján Mančuška, Helen Mirra, Claire Morel, Tania Mouraud, Ewa Partum et Charles Sandison

"Anja Isabel Schneider’s project questions the notion of reading in its various modalities of experimentation, experience, and structure. This exhibition explores the question of “fragmentary” or elusive reading—that is, reading which resists and unsettles the reader. Every reader/visitor is thus given an essential role–that of an active reader. As a secular literary form, the forme brève privileges certain artistic genres: dedication, poem of circumstance, index, news flash, word play, witticism, haiku, fragment, maxim, etc. It solicits the imagination of the reader who is no longer a passive audience but becomes a producer. Between the texts and their readers, the spaces generated…"

Sarah Crown, Guardian, 11 November 2011 ¶ "Is mining old books for their pictures or turning them into sculptures a kinder fate than the pulping mill?"

"…members of the Tokyo Bookbinding Club together with Sün Evrard, who is also a member of our association, invite you to create and offer hand-bound photo albums to those who recovered family photographies in the mud and ruins after the tsunami."

links to Guardian article, flickr, etc etc.

"To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Sterne's marbled page, which Sterne described as 'the motly emblem of my work', 169 artists and writers have been invited to design the Emblem of their own work. // Each contributor has generously donated the result to raise funds for the Laurence Sterne Trust." This blog shows the names of all the contributors and images of the works which can be seen in the Shandy Hall gallery until 31 October 2011. Each Emblem is displayed - but the maker's name is not visible. Each Emblem is for sale by auction.

Vanessa Thorpe, Guardian/Observer 11 September 2011 ¶ http://www.emblemofmywork169.blogspot.com/

Ilana DeBare, Chronicle (SFGate), 9 May 2011

gamma squad 10 may 2011

"We recently received, in a tube sent by postal mail, something new in our experience: a 15-foot-long scroll to the editor, below. Birch Lane Elementary School in Davis, Calif., took issue with an article about picture books, and set out on a monthlong campaign to promote and read them." ¶ NYTimes, 13 April 2011 ¶ original article tagged children's.literature.

Jennifer Kennard, book design blog. via bibliodyssey

posted 14 March 2011 ¶ paintings "of" books

alphabet popup book, by Marion Bataille

"…series introduces famous picture books of Japan and the West in the period from the eighteenth century to the 1930s."

"The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print." John Bonadies ¶ larger aim is to generates funds to purchase a collection of wood type, to be "housed at a new letterpress co-op called 'The Living Letter Press'" — and a "later stage of the LetterMpress venture, which will be to offer authentic letterpress prints from the designs submitted by LetterMpress users."

smart, fabulous, energetic designer in Istanbul

events calendar : Spring 2011, Transformations of the Book

via Warmenhoven & Venderbos photostream

conception and [beautiful] design of a book on the topic of “dream” ¶ "…the book is designed as a model of a dream about dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled to build a story, it brings different text excerpts together. They are connected by threads which tie in with certain key words. The threads visualise the confusion and fragileness of dreams." ¶ via: boingboing "Book uses colored thread between pages to make hyperlinks" posted by Cory Doctorow 12 Feb 2011

on My Sentimental Library blog. 2 February 2011 ¶ especialy liked the practice (Donald and Mary Hyde) of denoting season in which book was acquired, by using one of four bookplates with different color ink (a code!). ¶ mentioned by Maureen E Mulvihill on SHARP-L.

a book by book artist/scholar Richard Minsky

"…dedicated to making wood type using traditional techniques and a few updated/improvised methods."

"My plan is to build a mobile print shop in the back of an old delivery truck. Within these tight quarters, I’ll create an efficient and fully functional shop, with a small table top press for printing smaller work, and a larger proof press, capable of printing larger posters."

on exaggerated debossing, result of photopolymer plates. The Economist, 26 October 2010 ¶ might be tagged "letterpress.fetish"

Production on the film started in August of 2010 and it is slated for release in the early fall of 2011. Director & Editor: Doug Wilson

new to everlate me. enter. choose a language. try "invasions."

and/or maybe the picture books aren't good enough? or not interesting enough? — I'm among those who're not buying the "pushy parents" argument. ¶ lottsa lottsa comments. ¶ Julie Bosman, NY Times, 7 October 2010

beautiful presentation by Peter Welfare, president and head inkmaker, The Printing Ink Company.
"The best ink will have the best gloss, the best running ability, the best set speed, the best rub resistance." some notes (to self): Big part of process is grinding (dispersion), to maximize reflective surfaces of pigment; Done with bead mill (thousands of tiny steel balls, for rough grind and developing color), and three-roller mill for high gloss.

"exhibits, extracted, enacted, embroiled, embedded, & otherwise exhumed from the Galerie de Difformité."

"Alexander Halavais, an associate professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, found a partial solution to his city dweller's no-space-for-books dilemma: Slice and scan. A digital file takes up a lot less room than a codex book does." ¶ Jennifer Howard, chronicle/wired campus, September 28, 2010 ¶ new word in the comments : "disposaphobia"

great image and comment posted by Keiko Murate, who writes "dive into the sea of knowledge: an attractive bookstore for book and paper junkies"

courtesy Christianne Alvarenga

opens to A Treasury of Yiddish Stories ; courtesy Scott Lindberg

comes with photographs! see also (and elsewhere) William Matthews, a piece with same title.

Briar Press, posted by franklincreations on 20 feb 2008, numerous comments, additions ¶ see also Alastair Johnston's guide, via biblio.cinematica tag

TJBookarts, Jacqueline Poutasse, via BibliOdyssey

interview with Andrew Pettegree, author of The Book in the Renaissance. by Heather Horn, The Atlantic, August 2010

analytical account of the process of getting book remade and out in the world. July 2010

traveling exhibition. pdf catalogue does not appear to be available, but plenty of flickr views at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimborg/

review by Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University, & head of the Project on Technology and the Constitution at the Brookings Institution.

photos of equipment, &c. and link to lively SF Chronicle article (26 September 2009) —"'This has nothing to do with printing,' says [Museum founder Tim James (of Taurus Bindery)] , who is tired of the perception that bookbinding is an after-market accessory. 'Bookbinders were around for 1,000 years before printers.'"

The Morgan Library & Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design, on view May 21 through August 29, 2010. ¶ shows overlay (before & after) views of proposed landscape treatments.

July 7 – September 11, 2010 ; organized by Kyle Schlesinger

an online journal focusing on wood type and related topics, such as large-scale lettering, decorative typefounding, letterpress printing, sign painting, penmanship, poster printing, engraving, etc. It is edited by Nick Sherman.

trailer for movie about, and set in, the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. see http://typeface.kartemquin.com/

14-minute movie on Linotype, produced by Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy, ca 1960

17-minute movie on Linotype, produced by Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy, ca 1960

Phil Abel and his colleagues at traditional letterpress printshop Hand and Eye; on in the Guardian's series "disappearing acts" ¶ 8 April 2010

"Books are routinely given completely different covers abroad, often with baffling results. Tom Lamont asks the designers responsible to explain why." Tom Lamont, The Observer/Guardian (9 May 2010)