The Low Esteem in which Canada holds the book (Part 2 of 3)
Let’s look at the value Canada’s federal government attaches to sharing with Canadians important historical source documents and works of the imagination, in comparison to other culturally significant...
View ArticleFree Symposium on The Fine Book in the 21st Century
Oak Knoll Fest XVII is taking place October 5th through 7th. To kick things off on Friday, there will be a special symposium, free of charge and open to librarians, private press printers, and any...
View ArticleStarbucks of the publishing business…
Gaspereau Press books are designed and printed with great thought, care, and attention to detail. They’re a delight to hold and touch, and easy to read. Much as Starbucks raised the bar in the coffee...
View ArticleCome Celebrate Stan Bevington and Canadian Book Design, Monday, October 1
On Monday October 1, 2012, The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto (14 Elm Street) will host the Alcuin Society and winners of its 2011 Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. Winning entries for...
View ArticleAlcuin Dinner honours Book Design and Stan Bevington
Last night I was the guest of Chester Gryski* ( friend, and noted collector of the works, of the late Glenn Goluska one of Canada’s most accomplished and imaginative book designers) at the Alcuin...
View ArticleThe Role of Graphic Design…
Some months ago I interviewed one colossus – the great Canadian cultural critic Robert Fulford - on another – the great Canadian graphic/book designer Allan Fleming. Well, a few days ago at Benjamin...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Illustrated Children’s Book, by Frank Newfeld
Frank Newfeld states the case for children’s book illustrators The time has come, with some relief for a number of our publishers and authors, that I am no longer considered part of the Canadian army...
View ArticleSaul Bass movies influenced Frank Newfeld Books
Here are movie title sequences from The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder designed by Saul Bass. Bass’s movie titles strongly influenced Frank Newfeld’s book design work, particularly...
View ArticleTwo Books so Very Similar and so Very Different
There are at least two good reasons to own Carmine Starnino’s Lazy Bastardism and Stephen Marche’s Love and the Mess We’re In: each is designed by Andrew Steeves. Each won an Alcuin Award for Best...
View ArticleThe Largest Atlas in the World
You may have heard about it in the news. It’s the largest atlas in the world. Earth Platinum,(Millennium House, Australia, 2012) is leather-bound, weighs 200 kilograms, and measures 6ft x 9ft (1.8m x...
View ArticleExhibition Highlights Canada’s Thriving Small and Fine Presses
Catch “A Death Greatly Exaggerated: Canada’s Thriving Small and Fine Press,” which highlights the output of small press publishers in Canada from coast to coast, post 2000. The exhibition runs from May...
View ArticleRobert Fulford on the beautiful logic of production
“In those days it was often said that a newspaper was one of the few places where a man could work under precisely the same conditions his grandfather had known. In fact, we were still only one...
View ArticleAudio: Interview with Richard Minsky on Artists’ Books and the Book Arts
Richard Minsky twirling The Philosophy of Umbrellas by Robert Louis Stevenson. Richard Minsky is a celebrated American book artist, bookbinder and scholar who at age 13 got his first printing press....
View ArticleAudio Interview with Richard Minsky on The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930
Richard Minsky’s The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 will be coming out in softcover this fall! This part was easy. I just clipped and pasted from here. “From ornate floral patterns to...
View ArticleAbigail Rorer’s Horse
Last month I drove down to Petersham, Massachusetts to interview Abigail Rorer. Abigail is a wood engraver and the proprietor of The Lone Oak Press which publishes limited edition, finepress books...
View ArticleA touchstone against which to measure printed wood engravings
Ever since interviewing Jan and Crispen Elsted I’ve been biding my time, waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger on Endgrain Editions Three: Peter Lazarov Regular Edition: Quarter bound by...
View ArticleWhat the literary tourist thinks about e-books
While new technology has enabled us to incorporate audio and video, and Twitter and Facebook, into e-books – delivering more information, and more opportunities to share it in more formats than ever...
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