Books from the exhibition
Exhibition Sponsors
Bartkowiak's Best: Book Art from the Hamburg Archives
In the SFCB Gallery Jan 26-Apr 27, 2007
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The Man Knitting AtelierGrotesQue; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2000 Author: Donald Liebetreu Illustrator/Artist: Lokum Translation: Machtelt van Thiel Printer: Lokum Binder: Sandor jr. Schouten Contact: werkplaats@grotesque.nl Hand set in Bodoni, Folio-Grotesque, Garamond, Memphis & Nobel typefaces and printed on Yearling Classic paper. Japanese style binding, with wool and a wooden knitting needle. Bilingual, German and Dutch. Twelve pages, edition of 60. Nine short, philosophical interviews investigating the condition and the outlook of a man who observes the world while knitting. Setting by hand the many different typefaces in this work has allowed the principals to wholly immerse themselves in the design, in the process rediscovering the different characters. The design and composition is developed letter by letter. AtelierGrotesQue is a letterpress printing and language workshop combined with a bibliophilic publishing house, founded in 1984 by the late Lothar Micklei (Lokum) and Machtelt van Thiel. Lokum (1944-2004) was a typesetter through and through, with a preference for unusual typefaces, matching layout with content to produce compositions capable of multiple interpretations. A precept: "Good use of format and design empowers the paper to speech." | |||
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