Ted Bertz: Posterized impressions from the Durham Fair

[Ted Bertz] After recently finishing a personal project, a book commemorating posters completed from 1987 to 2008 for an agricultural fair held each year in Durham, Conn. — Fair Play: Twenty-three years of Durham Fair Posters — Ted Bertz, founder of Bertz Design Group, reflects on the evolution of the graphic design industry over the same period.

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02.03.12

Rachel Hazell, The Travelling Bookbinder, crosses the Pond

[Alyson Kuhn] Rachel Hazell is a book artist and have-punch-will-travel teacher of book arts. London-born Hazell, who currently lives in Edinburgh, has grand plans for 2012. She is scheduling a bookbinding workshop in a different part of the world each month. January’s was in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire; March’s will be on the Summer Isles in Northwest Scotland. And February’s — aptly titled Colour of Love — begins today in the Napa Valley. I’ll be right there — writing about paper engineering, stitching and all things Valentinear.

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02.02.12

Food, in print: Appreciating Lucky Peach

[Tom Biederbeck] Lucky Peach magazine has serious (and seriously funny) writing about food, lavish original illustrations, swell diversions and inserts (issue #2 has a sheet of parody fruit stickers), no online content, no advertising (well, very little) and curious art direction choices (on its cover, issue #1 displayed the south end of a northbound chicken). And it’s wildly successful.

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02.01.12

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!

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