thinking about letterpress etc...

this Friday (Sept. 29) we'll be:

1. presenting and submitting our Basic binding exercise (if you have any images, titles, short comments to post on the blog, go ahead - otherwise post after I hand them back)
2. having a letterpress demo and then I'll assign the Presswork exercise
   
3. continuing work on our multiple section (French sewing) model
4. discussion about page layout/grids
5. individual meetings about the Term Project
   

Studio Life

What five hours of sewing looks like:





-the libretto to Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung", what else could it be?

Field Trip to Coach House Press

...if you want a sneak preview of what to expect visit the web site where you'll also find directions to find it.



Afterwards (if there's time) we'll walk over to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

...small considerations

There has to be something - in the text or the image, in the way these are configured and made material - that allows a place for dialogue: a foothold, or perhaps an 'eye-and-hand-hold', in which the reader can grip, and then have a place from which to respond. This refers to the way in which the words are written, to the nature of the images, but also to the qualities of their material embodiment: disposition of information, the visual forms in which it is configured, texture and colour of substrate, the bulk and weight of the object, the way it flexes in your hands, and so on - into innumerable small considerations.

-Robin Kinross