Friday Destination: My fascination with bees

[Mark Randall] I hate getting stung. Several years ago a somewhat mild bee sting escalated into a severe reaction and put me in the hospital. The doctor in the emergency room suggested that maybe beekeeping was not such a good hobby for me. He then casually mentioned that the previous year someone came in with a bee sting and died.

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09.10.10

My TypeCon swag report: The fine, the fun, the very font-cy

[Alyson Kuhn] At TypeCon last month, I assembled quite the tote o’ treats. Here I explore some of my most notable loot. In a swell kuhnfluence — which editor Tom Biederbeck points out is not untype-ical in the Alysonian universe — I detoured to a superb calligraphy show on the winged heels of TypeCon: For typographic dessert, I’m going to show you a rich assortment of my favorite pieces from the Society for Calligraphers of Southern California exhibition.

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09.09.10

Redesign high school? Here’s an award that welcomes innovation

[Tom Biederbeck] What high school student doesn’t have ideas about how to make school better? Putting those ideas into a positive context is School: By Design, a new award from Design Ignites Change and Designers Accord that asks high school students — with their college and professional design mentors — to “redesign your school.” In support, the Mohawk Feedback Loop Notebook project launches today on Felt & Wire Shop with a spectacular array of unique letterpress notebooks.

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09.08.10

So Noted: Green Chair Press Blog

[Laura Shore] Before I fell in love with paper, I fell in love with books. I love to read them of course, but even more, I love to experience them as physical objects. Clearly Susan Angebranndt of Green Chair Press shares my obsession. Her blog is a rare treat – intelligent, straightforward, inspirational.

If you’ve found your way to feltandwire.com, then I think you’ll like the Green Chair Press blog. I especially like the How-to section, with clear, concise articles on flexagons, double fan bindery, adhesives, flip books, etc. Susan teaches workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book. She’s generously agreed to let us cross-post some of her content, but you might want to go straight to her site to see all that she’s got going on.

Here’s Susan’s recent post on double fan adhesive binding, pictured above: Quick and easy, the double-fan adhesive or millennial binding is a great solution for turning single sheets into an extremely durable paperback book that opens flat and stays open. Its strength comes from the way the pages are glued, using a double-fanning technique that brings glue just a millimeter or so into the textblock. And its “openability” comes from a pop-off spine that moves independently of the textblock. Find complete instructions here.

Photography: Green Chair Press

04.30.09
  1. Posted by The Editor on 04.30.09 at 3:31 pm

    Sublimely timely and rhymely! Per this past Tuesday’s post on the Green Chair Press blog: Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day. I am going to type a poem on graph-grid index cards, for distribution this very afternoon. Goody!