Artists Books 2011

Serves as an online hub for websites and exhibitions related to artists books.

I don't think I ever gave you this info on the book arts listserv...

A manifesto for our class!

Pamela Paulsrud - Pebbles made of books, and in her portfolio other works of book art/artist books. Also calligrapher and designer.

The Artichoke Yink Press' description of "Bird Mountain."

In the wake of Japan's recent quakes, Halford noticed an odd, semi-social photographic trend rumbling under the internet's surface: Japanese people were uploading hundreds of images of denuded library shelves and fields of unorganized books. "Why libraries?" Halford wondered.

Artist recontextualizes existing artists books by intricately cutting them

A New York Press that publishes books and prints for a lot of very well known contemporary artists.

So this is a fantastic website. Reed has created this hub for their artists' books collection. They've digitized many books, so you can look at books page by page. If you do enough clicking and searching to get to the individual pages, you can zoom in really far on the pages. All in all, a great artists' books resource.

How to get to the place where you zoom in: Click on the book you want to see. On this page you can watch a slide show of someone going through the book. They even start with taking the book out of its case/box. However, if you want to see individual pages zoomed in, you can click the "view in context" button next to the title of the book that is located below the slide show. Not all of the books have this option, but many do.

Website for the Arion Press. We talked about this press earlier on in the course.

Wisconsin book artist, showing his current project in progress,as well as his previous books.

It says he's got a book in our collection.

Website of Gaylord Schanilec who we met on Thursday.

Smith College alumna who makes beautiful artists books. You can see some sample pages on this site.

Another amusing blogpost dedicated on bad typefaces. Curious to know who agrees for they certainly are overused

Have you seen the YouTube video about "Trajan," the movie font? (Just type the words movie font in the search box at YouTube.) In my mind it certainly qualifies as an overused font, although it also makes it into some people's "top ten" lists (see below!).

Look and sound familiar?

I had NO idea that Worcester had posted this. It's a cautionary tale: make sure you get permission to post someone else's work on the web...

Video on particular book/scroll created by book artist.

A celebratory discussion from the American Antiquarian Society to mark the completion of the series, from "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" to "Print Culture in Postwar America", published in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.Through these publications and the AAS Program in the History of the Book, the Society is acknowledged as a leader in the emerging international field of book history. The United States series- from Codex to the Kindle- is a lively consideration of authorship, reading, and publishing in the development of American life and culture. Looks like a very informative youtube video!

A fun article about the a set of the top ten best typefaces

This is associated with Barnbrook. interesting selections of font packages. They also mention internship possiblities

Also from our Eskilson reading, this is another graphically interesting website. Check out their old site too

This is the website of Bruce Mau from our reading in Eskilson. They/he offer internships based in their Toronto studio