Doug Rice + Stephanie Sauer discuss the making of Dream Memoirs
In case you missed our joint discussion at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento this spring, you can still catch the content here.
The event also marked the release of there is no grammar, Sauer's sculptural artist book tribute to their collaboration. Her 3-minute detailing can be heard here.
In case you missed our joint discussion at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento this spring, you can still catch the content here.
The event also marked the release of there is no grammar, Sauer's sculptural artist book tribute to their collaboration. Her 3-minute detailing can be heard here.
Making gifts for Primrose Press' Artists' V-Day Swap
Copilot book artist Stephanie Sauer just finished making turning cut paper, sewing pattern tissue, buttons, bones and pieces of feather into Valentines to send to artists from across the country participating in Primrose Press' 2nd Annual Artists' V-Day Swap.
She also received her first V-Day gift from composer Sean Griffin.
It's bound with pipe cleaners. Hot stuff.
To see photos from all the participating artists, visit Primrose Press.
Copilot book artist Stephanie Sauer just finished making turning cut paper, sewing pattern tissue, buttons, bones and pieces of feather into Valentines to send to artists from across the country participating in Primrose Press' 2nd Annual Artists' V-Day Swap.
She also received her first V-Day gift from composer Sean Griffin.
It's bound with pipe cleaners. Hot stuff.
To see photos from all the participating artists, visit Primrose Press.
Come read, touch...
From now through Dec. 24, you can find Copilot Press books at La Raza Galeria Posada's Annual Holiday Mercado in downtown Sacramento, California.
The Mercado features all LOCAL artisans in this historic gallery space.
From now through Dec. 24, you can find Copilot Press books at La Raza Galeria Posada's Annual Holiday Mercado in downtown Sacramento, California.
The Mercado features all LOCAL artisans in this historic gallery space.
The slow stitching together of...
Doug Rice's Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist into a one-of-a-kind garment book is happening now.
Doug Rice's Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist into a one-of-a-kind garment book is happening now.
While in New York...
Had the rare opportunity to take a private tour of The New York Academy of Medicine's Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory with Tia Blassingame of Primrose Press. There, Lead Conservator Anne Hillam exploded (yet again) our notions of the book throughout history by showing us one stunning example of non-Western binding after another.
...we also got to see the first known image of a fork.
Had the rare opportunity to take a private tour of The New York Academy of Medicine's Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory with Tia Blassingame of Primrose Press. There, Lead Conservator Anne Hillam exploded (yet again) our notions of the book throughout history by showing us one stunning example of non-Western binding after another.
...we also got to see the first known image of a fork.
The Fabulous Fabulist
Right now - yes, at this very moment - we're likely working on our upcoming release: Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist. This delicious 5"x5" book as exposure (as in what happens when light touches film and that other kind of unmasking) collages the writings and photography by Doug Rice together to make a tactile experience of reading.
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Right now - yes, at this very moment - we're likely working on our upcoming release: Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist. This delicious 5"x5" book as exposure (as in what happens when light touches film and that other kind of unmasking) collages the writings and photography by Doug Rice together to make a tactile experience of reading.
[read more]
O Brasil. O livro.
So writing on rocks is outlawed in Chapada dos Veadeiros. Luckily, writers, printers and book artists have been up to some outlandish work all over Tropicalia for centuries. There's the ever beloved literatura de cordel (string literature) tradition. There's contemporary urban collectives like Beleléu and Samba making hand-produced graphic zines, calendars and 3D books featuring local talent. We spotted Samba's work at Cobogo in Brasilia for the launch of Pindura 2011 and at the international Rio Comicon.
While in the Cidade Maravilhosa, we stumbled upon an antique fair in the old city center that boasted vintage issues of Tico-Tico and Careta. And in Ipanema, we met with a woman after our own hearts who owns A Cena Muda, an unassuming banca (newsstand) packed full of rare and unimaginable paper treasures that has transformed itself into a "time machine of Brazilian culture." She also publishes handmade reprints of Brazil's most cherished, healthfully depraved cartoonist Carlos Zéfiro. Thanks to Rachel Gontijo Araujo of A Bolha Editora, these works are now available in the U.S. through PictureBox Inc.
In short: o brasil. o livro. o amor.
So writing on rocks is outlawed in Chapada dos Veadeiros. Luckily, writers, printers and book artists have been up to some outlandish work all over Tropicalia for centuries. There's the ever beloved literatura de cordel (string literature) tradition. There's contemporary urban collectives like Beleléu and Samba making hand-produced graphic zines, calendars and 3D books featuring local talent. We spotted Samba's work at Cobogo in Brasilia for the launch of Pindura 2011 and at the international Rio Comicon.
While in the Cidade Maravilhosa, we stumbled upon an antique fair in the old city center that boasted vintage issues of Tico-Tico and Careta. And in Ipanema, we met with a woman after our own hearts who owns A Cena Muda, an unassuming banca (newsstand) packed full of rare and unimaginable paper treasures that has transformed itself into a "time machine of Brazilian culture." She also publishes handmade reprints of Brazil's most cherished, healthfully depraved cartoonist Carlos Zéfiro. Thanks to Rachel Gontijo Araujo of A Bolha Editora, these works are now available in the U.S. through PictureBox Inc.
In short: o brasil. o livro. o amor.
We Heart NYC (for the books)
Need we say it? We love you too, Center for Book Arts, with your worn in letterpress machines and drawers full of paper. Your exhibition catalogs make us salivate.
Slash: Paper Under The Knife: holy shit.
Moving Paper: An International Festival of Moving Paper Animation. oh. yes.
Need we say it? We love you too, Center for Book Arts, with your worn in letterpress machines and drawers full of paper. Your exhibition catalogs make us salivate.
Slash: Paper Under The Knife: holy shit.
Moving Paper: An International Festival of Moving Paper Animation. oh. yes.
No Sleep In Brooklyn
We knew it was good when on our first days here we stumbled upon Desert Island Bookstore by accident, which revealed not only an active audience (what with their annual comic/zine fairs and all), but a plethora on Brooklyn based book artists. The work is stunning: full publications in woodblock cuts, silkscreened calendars, original prints and new hand-bound books arriving all the time. Favorite finds include: Two Wounds and Oh Inky Inky by Uninhabitable Mansions, Progress Tramples Humans by Colett, Bad Day Magazine, Abecederia by NoBrow, works by Paping and Picture Box Press. If you're in town and can make it here on a Monday night, be sure drop in at Wombat a few blocks away (Grand near Lorimer) for the most amazing $1 oysters you'll ever eat.
Last week we slipped into a three-press reading at Dixon Place on the Lower East Side. While it's not Brooklyn, Ugly Duckling Press is and it was the mentionable headline of the night with a beautiful performance by Marina Temkina from her book, What Do You Want? She makes me smile.
We knew it was good when on our first days here we stumbled upon Desert Island Bookstore by accident, which revealed not only an active audience (what with their annual comic/zine fairs and all), but a plethora on Brooklyn based book artists. The work is stunning: full publications in woodblock cuts, silkscreened calendars, original prints and new hand-bound books arriving all the time. Favorite finds include: Two Wounds and Oh Inky Inky by Uninhabitable Mansions, Progress Tramples Humans by Colett, Bad Day Magazine, Abecederia by NoBrow, works by Paping and Picture Box Press. If you're in town and can make it here on a Monday night, be sure drop in at Wombat a few blocks away (Grand near Lorimer) for the most amazing $1 oysters you'll ever eat.
Last week we slipped into a three-press reading at Dixon Place on the Lower East Side. While it's not Brooklyn, Ugly Duckling Press is and it was the mentionable headline of the night with a beautiful performance by Marina Temkina from her book, What Do You Want? She makes me smile.
Chi-Town: The Return
Somehow, even in winter, you're charming. Your Cultural Center's Publishers Gallery is expanding and Quimby's is still our favorite go-to for all things published. This time the finds were: Madras Press, The Hysterical Alphabet and Ker-bloom LXXX.
Somehow, even in winter, you're charming. Your Cultural Center's Publishers Gallery is expanding and Quimby's is still our favorite go-to for all things published. This time the finds were: Madras Press, The Hysterical Alphabet and Ker-bloom LXXX.
Bologna, Italy
International Children's Book Fair
More than a feast for the eyes...an overload of business sense. Fast-paced, market driven explosion of bidding wars for international publishing rights. A maze of countries and approaches to children's literature. Many booths that made me very hopeful. Many disheartening. The highlights? Corraini Edizioni, The Lithuanian Publishers Association, Pum Editores, Editora Cosacnaify, Vannini Editrice and Editions Thierry Magnier.
International Children's Book Fair
More than a feast for the eyes...an overload of business sense. Fast-paced, market driven explosion of bidding wars for international publishing rights. A maze of countries and approaches to children's literature. Many booths that made me very hopeful. Many disheartening. The highlights? Corraini Edizioni, The Lithuanian Publishers Association, Pum Editores, Editora Cosacnaify, Vannini Editrice and Editions Thierry Magnier.
Madrid. A Coruña. Barcelona.
Miles of open air book fairs along Camino del Prado in Madrid and La Marcha in Barcelona: everything from mini vintage pocket books to the latest in dollar bin fillers.
Estate of Galicia's beloved writer Emilia Pardo Bazán: an incredible collection of first edition and rare books from across Spain's much overlooked regions. Why oh why did they have to be behind glass?
Miles of open air book fairs along Camino del Prado in Madrid and La Marcha in Barcelona: everything from mini vintage pocket books to the latest in dollar bin fillers.
Estate of Galicia's beloved writer Emilia Pardo Bazán: an incredible collection of first edition and rare books from across Spain's much overlooked regions. Why oh why did they have to be behind glass?
