From FontShop, a little booklet on typography that you can view on screen, print on your own printer, or get a real book… (first seen on swissmiss)
Category: General
Photographing Bookworks
Photographing artist’s books can be tricky and frustrating — getting the lighting right, staging the book to show off all its features… The 23 Sandy Gallery blog recently had a 2 part post on “What Makes a Good Photograph for Submission to a Juried Show or Gallery” (which also applies to photographing your work for selling online). Part I is here and Part 2 is here.
Stampy Digital Camera
Gadget for the day: a digital camera that turns a photo into a rubber stamp. Take a picture, remove the camera body to reveal the stamp, then print by pushing the handle down.
First seen on Printinteresting. I can’t seem to find where to buy one…
Printing at last
After entirely too much procrastination, I inked up my press today and printed for the first time in my new studio in Santa Fe — a batch of coasters with a Sherlock Holmes quote. I’ve got a calendar in the works — more on that in the upcoming weeks.
Tocqueville’s Sewn Notebooks
I’ve read (and heard on NPR) several reviews of Leo Damrosch’s recent book Tocqueville’s Discovery of America, and the review in the New Yorker has a nice detail:
Tocqueville amassed thousands of pages of drafts as he worked on his book, and kept voluminous notes in little books that he folded and stitched by hand.
The picture with this post is from draft report by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont on the survey of penal institutions in New York. You can see more here.
Moved
My friend Richard reminded me the other day that I’ve been derelict in keeping my blog entries up. So here’s what’s happened since my last post: The moving truck arrived 2 weeks ago, with my press all safe and in one piece (that’s a very bad picture of it after it was moved into my new studio). Since then I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with getting my studio set up (getting in the cabinets and workspaces from my studio in California and unpacking what seems like endless boxes), as well as getting our house in California sold. I still seem to be surrounded by boxes, but at least I can find things now!