A Box for Every Book

When I made my artist's book 'Raising the Supine Dome' I did not intend to make a box to house the book. But as it makes its way into various collections, I find that I am completely uncomfortable with it going out in the world without a protective box. Now, included with every book is the box you see here. Instead of a title on the spine, I've glued on one of the figures laser cut from the interior of the book. I love making boxes, and with the help of my lovely intern, Nora, we've made fast work of an edition of boxes to go with the edition of books.

On Display

There is a handling copy of 'Raising the Supine Dome', my latest artist's book, at Flying Object in Hadley, MA. Flying Object is a great new bookstore/gallery/letterpress cooperative with an exhaustive collection of independent press books and a robust reading series wth interesting poets.

Also, a very well done online catalog just came out of a show my work is in in at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, 'The Book: A Contemporary View". Here's the link for the catalog http://www.thedcca.info/

Who needs 4 color design when we have 2?

 


I have been designing and letterpress printing covers for Bateau Press since 2008. Each year they put out two issues of their literary magazine, Bateau, and one chapbook. I just posted a gallery of *almost* all of the covers I've designed for them over the years. Visit their website to order a few of these literary gems.

Op Art Pop-Up Book by Tauba Auerbach

I went to the NY Artist's Book Fair this past fall in part to see this particular book, [2,3] by Tauba Auerbach, published by Printed Matter. The book was supposed to be ready for sale during the the Book Fair, but they were having some delays in production, as one can imagine by looking at the complex pop-ups above. Each one of these sculptural pages, some measuring 18" high, folds in half, collapsing into a neat folio. Each separate folio will be housed in a slipcase. I did not see the folding action, but you can see a few pictures of them folding down on Printed Matter's website. The samples they had on display at the Book Fair were hand-cut by the artist and the cuts were pristine and exact. The final edition is 1000 copies, surely to be die cut and assembled by a team. I want one.