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.
This message recently posted on the Book Arts Listserv piqued my interest.
Have you had enough of the computer and electronic design?
Are you ready to return to the hand crafted side of the profession?
Do you love books and want to learn more about typography and printing through book production?Return to the handmade at Type Camp Book Arts in Buffalo, New York. Here you will discover a new sense of tangibility in this ‘unplugged’ printing workshop as you’ll get ink under your fingernails, cast your own lead type, and even use power tools to kern letters. (When we say ‘hands-on’, we mean it!)
Type Camp Book Arts Buffalo will focus on the resources of the Western New York Book Arts Center, situated in downtown Buffalo, New York, managed by P22 type foundry founder Richard Kegler. This working printing museum has hundreds of metal and woodtype fonts and flat bed and platen presses, all of which allow for total immersion into the letterpress experience.
Campers will experiment with other timeless techniques including papermaking, foil stamping, and even typecasting during this intensive hands-on week. We’ll start with a pool party and cook out at the P22 compound and then there will be field trips to type dealers, rare book collections, and as a special experience, the final day of camp will take place at the legendary Roycroft Press . We cover all of your housing, food, classes, supplies, trips, and teaching for CAN$2390
I took a look at their website and Flickr pool and discovered they had camps in India and London.
Karen O’Leary hand cuts maps like the one to the left. She sells the originals (pricey) and prints of the originals (not as pricey) and notecards on Supermarket and Etsy. You can find out more about her here and see lots of her work, finished and unfinished, on her Flickr pool.
Every year the Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael, CA has an exhibit of bookworks. This is the fifth year. In a recent issue of the PCBA Ampersand, Emily Martin calls Seager “the patron saint of the artist book.” The exhibit is from June 4-July 31 and is also online. Unfortunately not all the photos are linked to larger pictures and more info, but of the ones that do, most show multiple bookworks for the artist.
Recently a post on the Etsy Bookbinding Street Team blog had some very intriguing photos of Red Pumpkin Studio’s book. It’s hand-written, hand-bound and inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart. You can see the beautiful calligraphy here (which made me sigh and wish I could pen such gorgeous ampersands!). Jennifer talks about making the book on her blog — I especially like her cover treatment!
If you could ask someone just 3 questions, what would they be? That’s the premise behind the website Qu3stions (actually, they say their site is “an opportunity to listen in on short but illuminating conversations with interesting people”.) Their first interview was with Southern California letterpress printer Gerald Lange (that’s Gerald to the left). Gerald printed one of my favorite broadsides — Rabbits do not know what they are — and is a moderator on the PPLetterpress yahoo group. See the questions and answers here.