I’ve been playing around with Hedi Kyle’s panel book construction recently. Valerie Carrigan made good use of it by exploiting both sides in her book Point of View, shown below. She says “This book, created in watercolor, can be viewed from both front and back, offering two distinct vantage points from the mountain top [Mount Greylock].” Instructions for making the book are here.
From the title, you might think this is post about type. It’s not. It’s about the brand name of a clothing line, exclusive to the Anthropologie chain. (Pilcro is a variant spelling of pilcrow, the paragraph mark: ¶.) I can’t find out why they used that name, and it’s since been shortened from “pilcro and the letterpress” to just “pilcro.” They make a bit of an effort to follow the theme, with “hyphen shorts,” “stet jeans,” “serif leggings” and “superscript jeans.” (That’s the tag in their clothing, above. )
This week I started letterpress printing my 2015 calendar design. The picture shows the supplies I’ve ordered. I start early so I have plenty of time to print and can spread it out over the course of a month or so.
My miniature books about the seasons are in the Pacific Center for the Books Arts Member Show this summer. It opens on June 21, at the San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch) and closes September 6. If you’re in the area, I hope you get a chance to take a look; there are something like 115 participants. There’s a facebook page about the exhibit as well as a website
Ines Seidel used teabags and old hymnals to make a new hymn book. She says they make a bit of noise when you turn the pages. See more pictures here.
