Category: Book Arts
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Codex-bound
Well, I’m hitting the road again—I can’t believe it’s been two years already, but the CODEX Bookfair has come around again. Jessica and I will both be exhibiting, and we’ll have lots of new projects making their debut there (including the new Dead Feminist broadside!) The best thing about CODEX is being able to stand…
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Two shows, one night
Both Jessica and I have solo shows on display right now, and while they deal with different topics, our similar personalities and interests made for a surprising number of overlaps. While we were marveling at how much our shows had in common with each other (which was especially funny, considering that neither of us saw…
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Seattle smash
Friday was the perfect day to get outside and invade South Lake Union with a bunch of crazy letterpress shenanigans. For the first time, the SVC Wayzgoose was wrapped up within the South Lake Union Block Party—so some changes were in order this year. For one thing, it meant a bigger crowd and a wider…
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Just our type
Jessica has our new broadside on press as I type this, lining up the colors and doing one last check for typos. But this week also holds another kind of “typo” for us, the kind we actually encourage: typophiles. While our schedules prevent us from actually being there in person, I’m happy to announce that…
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Bit by bit
It’s that time again—Jessica and I are hard at work on the next Dead Feminist broadside. Actually, we’ve been hard at work on this piece for months already. I think it’s safe to say that this piece has the most research and labor behind it than any we’ve done so far. There’s a lot at…
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Ink This!
One exhibit might be ending this week, but another is just getting started. On Tuesday night I went to the opening for Ink This!, a new exhibit of contemporary Northwest print arts at the Tacoma Art Museum. The place was completely packed—both in the lecture space and in the common areas. I spent so much…
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Summer sampler
I stopped by the Collins Memorial Library this week to see the new Puget Sound Book Artists exhibition, and look what’s in the show! If you haven’t had a chance to see my Mnemonic Sampler abecedary in person yet, the PSBA folks have it beautifully displayed in one of the wall cases. (The display is…
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The miracle worker
This is my friend Carl. He’s a wood engraver extraordinaire— —and his West Seattle letterpress studio is a thing of beauty. He does lovely, painstaking work (those are his engravings on the wall there), and he runs a tight ship at that studio of his. Which is why my friend Mary-Alice called on Carl when…
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Nearsighted Narwhal
This week I added a new stockist to my list when I dropped off a pile of cards at Tacoma’s newest shop, The Nearsighted Narwhal. The shop fills a specific niche that book artists will love: the art of self-publishing. The store is chock-a-block with zines, comics, self-published and small-press publications, and artwork by a…
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Making lemonade
Photo by Jessica Spring Jessica has been churning out a crop of lemonade journals lately, including some fun new ones from the outtakes of our Focal Point print. Look for them soon in the shop!