This t-shirt, from dock2letterpress, was printed using wood type on a Wesel Iron hand press (that’s it to the right of the tshirt). The form measures roughly 22″ tall by 16.5″ wide. There’s a great set of pictures of a Wesel on Flickr and some more quite amazing pictures of hand presses at the Briar Press Museum.
The sixth annual Art of the Book exhibit takes place at the Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael, CA from March 18 – April 30. She has the exhibition online if, like me, you can’t make it to see the books in person. Below is Granden Press’ Point Plane Solid, described as
A visual meditation on some of Euclid’s definitions. Nine leaves, 12 x 3 inches, bound in a palm-leaf structure with wooden boards, strung on yellow cord held by a red wood cube. The pages unfold to reveal typographic or sculptural illustrations of geometric concepts. There are 3 small pop-ups or assemble-it-yourself structures within the pages.
Grandon Press is a collaboration between Barbara Mauriello and Barbara Henry. You can see more of this book and their other work here.
Here’s what Pi sounds like:
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Following up on my post of the other day about juror awards from the biannual Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair, here’s another winner: Katie Baldwin of Queen Anne’s Revenge Press in Philadelphia. The book to the left is The River Parcenta. Her website is here. Even better (at least to me) are these pictures of her studio, taken by her intern Sarah Alfarhan.
I got a kick out of this clever Overdue Book Calendar in Lauren Hunt’s auntjune Etsy store the other day. She says
Every month of this 2011 calendar has space for you to write in 13-15 library books you have checked out along with their due dates. Circle those due dates on the calendar and give yourself an extra reminder! And you can save it, to prove to people that you can read.
Last year was the first year since I began making books that I didn’t attend a handmade book fair. But happily the Fine Press Book Association blog has been reporting on many of the ones I missed. Recently they posted the juror awards from the biannual Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair last November. The winner of the Award for Artistic Excellence was Sarah Bryant and her book Biography. She says
“Biography” is an exploration of the chemical elements in the human body and the roles they play elsewhere in the world… Each spread is a diagram describing the elements as they exist on the periodic table, the earth’s crust, a variety of man-made weapons, medicines and tools, sea water, etc. Each element is identified as a specific colored rectangle and these rectangles continue through the diagrams. These diagrams sometimes difficult to decode, and toward the end are interrupted by blind stamped organic shapes and pressure printing.
The letterpress printing in the spread on above looks intriguing! She also sells the folios as prints. Take a look at her website and etsy shop.