January 2011
29 posts
Finding Words - The Ligatus Glossary Project
Professor Nicholas Pickwoad All crafts, trades and disciplines sooner or later develop their own specialist vocabularies to allow their practitioners to communicate quickly, easily and clearly when going about their everyday activities. In the more literate areas of life – medicine and law for instance – these vocabularies have survived and remain, if not in use, at least in older records, but...
Compare printmaking processes →
CHELSEA space: #36 Aphasic Disturbance curated by... →
A Defense of Books
lazenby:
by William H. Gass
One
When Ben Jonson was a small boy, his tutor, William Camden, persuaded him of the virtue of keeping a commonplace book: pages where an ardent reader might copy down passages that especially pleased him, preserving sentences that seemed particularly apt or wise or rightly formed and that would, because they were written afresh in a new place, and in a...
A trip to the USA.
I recently booked a flight to the USA.
I’m set to leave London on 4 May, flying to New York, and I return from L.A on 12 July. I’ll be in America for 69 days.
My trip is going to be a book arts pilgrimage. There are many, many places I’d like to visit while I’m there (and please, if you’ve any recommendations then let me know). I’m still working on the list,...
100 Alphabets Publicitaires →
Typenotes: Design studentships in Typography →
typefacedesign:
We are looking for exceptional candidates for full-time postgraduate study in the Department of Typography at Reading. The University will award one AHRC-funded studentship for our practice-based MA programmes: Book Design, Information Design or Typeface Design, with entry in October 2011.
We…
Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico, 1818 →
No Glue Required 2
No Glue Required 2: a second, one-day non-adhesive bookbinding workshop
Birmingham Printmakers, Floodgate Street, Birmingham
Saturday 19 March, 10am - 4pm
£45 (£40 for students/BPM members)
To book a place visit my website.
Introduction to Bookbinding
Introduction to Bookbinding workshop
Birmingham Printmakers, Floodgate Street, Birmingham
Saturday 19 - Sunday 20 February 2011, 10am - 4pm
£95 (£85 students & BPM members)
No Glue Required
No Glue Required: a one-day non-adhesive bookbinding workshop
Birmingham Printmakers, Floodgate Street, Birmingham
Saturday 19 March, 10am - 4pm
£45 (£40 for students/BPM members)
To book a place visit my website.
The Dalston Workshop →
thedalstonworkshop:
We are opening a brand-new, shared studio and retail space in Dalston, East London.
There is room for eight people, which would be perfect for designers, designer makers, craft activities, artists, etc.
The space is currently being used as a salon and benefits from a great frontage…
