Via my friend Kristen Smith, via _Just My Type_: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
My Tamil isn’t good enough to follow everything they are saying but I love the mix of old and new media: palm leaf books, microfilm, codices and digital images.
The book exhibition Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books is up now at the Georgia Museum of Art until November 6. It looks like it will focus more on fine press books rather than artists’ books, but that’s probably more relevant to our class right now anyway. Number one on the exhibition checklist:
The Knight’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer. Woodcuts by Charles D. Jones. 14 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches. Printed by LaNana Creek Press, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches,Texas, 2009.
read-unread bookshelf by Niko Economidis, 2011
‘Constructed of leather straps hung across supports, Read-unread physically weighs the balance of books that have been read, against those yet to be read’
(via saidtotheuniverse)
~ The Bute County Directory for 1902-3; Bute County, Scotland
via Internet Archive
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“Steam, Gas, Electricity, and Shorthand, are powers which have transformed the World”I’m studying Gregg shorthand now. It’s a lot harder than I anticipated.
The History of the Marbled Page
This link takes you to an exhibition that will open at Shandy Hall in September 2011 commemorating the 250th anniversary of the marbled page.
Coil by Timothy Ely, 2005
Drum leaf binding with black leather spine; pastepaper endleaves; text in ink on paper. This unique manuscript was drawn between New York City, Colorado Springs, and Colfax, and tracks the labs, events, and cycles of Nikola Tesla. 36 x 24 x 2 centimeters.
