Some New Year's goodies to get us all started off on the right foot. I've decided to stick to book arts classes for the time being, and put off getting back into letterpress for a while. I think I've got too many things going already, and I'd like to really get down to business with the books, first, before launching into letterpress projects. But here's a little of both:
- If you'd like a great excuse to go to Chartres in spring 2009, check out Délires de Livres. I posted about the 2007 exhibit earlier. The new theme is up for Spring 2009: Openness in red/black/white (and/or). Entry fee is 35€. Go to Am Arts.com and click on Délires de Livres 2009 for more information (in French). [Thanks to Pascale Baud again for the info.]
- Looking for how-to books? Flyleaf Books has a great bibliography of book arts instructional tomes, from Keith Smith to Claire Van Vliet, and a number of reviews of books on creativity, from writing to altered books. Lots of titles I hadn't run into yet with, no doubt, loads of inspiration.
- And more suggestions for Bookbinding 101 resources from My Handbound Books.
- Love marbled paper? Instructions on marbleizing paper and objects, from Martha Stewart, no less [also courtesy of Flyleaf Books].
- If you're thinking about getting to letterpress in a serious way, like I am, Poppy Letterpress's blog is, so far, the story of a trial-by-fire letterpressing her own wedding invitations. Chock full of info and warnings to the wise.
- Urban Paper Arts has some great engineered paper examples along with instruction book suggestions.
- And Riverlark has some suggestions for workshops.
- To which I add my own, New York based:
- Studio on the Square letterpress and book arts classes
- Summer Residencies at the School of Visual Arts
- The Center for Book Arts letterpress and book arts classes
- Letterpress and other printing classes and tutoring at The Arm in Brooklyn (via Trooji's post on Briar Press, in their classifieds)
- Papermaking at Dieu Donne Paper Mill
- Workspace residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (not a workshop, but an offer for free studio space for 9 months)
- DIY City launches Feb. 1 with a special on supply shops in NYC! Yay! Cuz TimeOut NY sure did a crappy job of this. [via DIYthing]
- If you're looking for communities, there's a great handmade book community over on Live Journal, a bunch on Flickr (handmade books, altered books, handbound books, and bookbinding), and a great mailing list on Yahoo, all with helpful, friendly people, including me.
Comments