Tag Archives | Book Arts

El Catrín: Minnesotan Broadsides

From Start to Here, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts 25th Anniversary Broadside Portfolio showcases a wide range of book arts techniques including typeset letterpress printing, hand papermaking, calligraphy, wood engraving, reductive linocut and many others.

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NY Hipsters + Poetism

David Shook briefly reviews two recent well-designed books, one by a multidisciplinary trio of New York hipsters that includes Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and one by founding Czech surrealist Vítězslav Nezval, translated by Jennifer Rogers.

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Books 2.0, #1: Between Page and Screen

David Shook interviews Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse, the poet-programmer team behind Between Page and Screen, the first ever augmented reality poetry book.

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British Limiteds, Part 2

David Blamires, The Books of Jonah (Incline Press) £20 (£15 w/o insert poem) This letterpress-printed short book was published in a limited edition of two hundred numbered copies to commemorate a special exhibition at Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England. The Books of Jonah contains Blamires excellent thumbnail history of the Jonah story in print and image, [...]

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Book Syntax: In Conversation with Sally Alatalo

Sally Alatalo is Founder and Director of Sara Ranchouse Publishing, perhaps the most intriguing small press in America today, exploring the relationship between the semantics and syntax of books—the relationship and interaction between their imaginary content and their physicality.

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