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Book Paper Chains I Hanging Eco-friendly Art Mobile by YUMMY! INK, 2009

Eco-Friendly Art Mobile · Work in Progress

Work in Progress

Book Paper Chains I Hanging Eco-friendly Art Mobile by YUMMY! INK, 2009.

DOMINIC RILEY BOOKBINDER

Last week at San Francisco Center for the Book, I photographed this great book bind by one of the Masters Bookbinders existing nowadays. Dominic Riley learned bookbinding at age 16 from Benedictine monks and at the London College of Printing. He spent the last 10 years in San Francisco teaching, lecturing and restoring rare books. He now has a bindery with Michael Burke in England's Lake District and serves as vice chairman of the Society of Bookbinders.

Selected summer courses are now open for registration at SFCB. This includes the Historical & Advanced Bookbinding series with Dominic Riley & Michael Burke who travel here annually from England to teach a set of fantastic classes. Some of the class titles are:

Hand Tooling - June 13-14
Longstitch and Linkstitch Intensive - June 15-19
Pastepapers Old and New - June 20-21
Book Restoration Intensive - June 22-26
Repairing Leather Bindings with Japanese Paper - June 27-28
Medieval Binding Intensive - June 29-July 3
The Classic Leather Binding - July 6-10
The Ideal Sketchbook - July 11
The Ideal Album - July 12
Creative Leather Decorating Techniques - July 18-19

You can register online through the SFCB site, or you can call 415-565-0545 (c/o Colleen Stockmann).

WARD SCHUMAKER · SFCB

The San Francisco Center for the Book publishing program, invites on their Small Plates series selected artists and writers to create books of a specific size and theme for quarterly release each year. For 2009, books are 4" square and devoted to the theme of anatomy. The first project I have been lucky to work with is God's Femur by artist and illustrator Ward Schumaker.

The book is available through the Imprint of SFCB Etsy shop. You also can contact Colleen Stockman at imprint@sfcb.org or call (415) 565 0545.

Ward Schumaker’s work has appeared in over 150 periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker, Esquire Japan, and Le Figaro. He has illustrated two limited edition letterpress books for the famed Yolla Bolly Press: Two Kitchens in Provence by MFK Fisher, and Paris France by Gertrude Stein. His work on the Stein book won a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators. He has received awards from the AIGA, CA Illustration/Design Annuals, Print Magazine, Graphis and American Illustration. His work has been the subject of articles in Communication Arts, Print, Step-by-Step, Design Journal (Korea), and Portfolio (Japan). With the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, he received a Federal Design Achievement Award. The artist lives and works in San Francisco with his wife, artist Vivienne Flesher. This year's Small Plates series will also include books by Emily McVarish, Daniel Gonzales, and Emory Douglas. Visit www.sfcb.org/imprint for more on the Center's publications.

LABOUR

Display typeface for The One Show, 2008. Designers: Labour/Bigstar NY.

LABOUR is a Brooklyn, NY-based creative office that employs a bold and original working method across a full spectrum of media, from moving image and audio to printed matters and intellectual properties. Founded by longtime collaborators Ryan Dunn and Wyeth Hansen, LABOUR is a unique beast – a small studio that is equally at home designing information systems for tech clients, directing music videos, writing and recording music, designing typefaces, or creating brand identities from the ground up.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

“I’ve worked my whole life to hold onto my memories. I don’t want them to slip away. This is what the work is about, trying to hold onto my memories.” Louise Bourgeois, February 11, 2007.

Nothing to Remember is a facsimile of 22 delicately-coloured prints on hand-drawn music paper created between 2004 and 2006 by Louise Bourgeois.This artists’ book follows from an earlier publication, Ode à l’Oubli (Ode to Forgetfulness), which Bourgeois made entirely out of fabric, using the linens and clothing remnants from her past. The words and images in Nothing to Remember are tentative and delicate, conveying the significance and fleetingness of memories.
Without doubt one of my favorite artists. A "must" in your bookshelves.

Louise Bourgeois Nothing to Remember
Designed by Louise Bourgeois
Limited edition of 1,000 copies
48 pages, 40 colour plates
28.8 cm x 44 cm
Clothbound hardcover in a slipcase
Steidl Hauser & Wirth
ISBN: 978-3-86521-659-5
February 2009

KEIKO MORIMOTO

The illustrations of Keiko Morimoto are delicate compositions, with bright colors and thin lines. From her hand emerges a fragile imaginative world of vivid characters, with powerful feelings, childish enthusiasm and stylish modus vivendi. Born in Japan, raised in England, and currently living and working in Lausanne, Switzerland, Keiko’s work is definitely alive. Combining elegancy and exquisite delicacy.

Her Poupées made of papier mâché are Keiko's hobby, she makes them whenever she feels inspired.

Ondrej Jób

Slovak designer Ondrej Jób is behind the friendly strokes of the Outliner Typeface. He won an award at TDC 2009 for the design of Display Klimax Bold Typography. Outliner is a typeface specially designed for use with outline strokes. You can find more details at Urtd.net. Available at MyFonts. Endless variations and fun.

Images by Ondrej Jób © 2009