DAY SEVEN
At 5:10 in the evening I just got Bitch & Bust in the mail, while Jeanne was knockin out final projects for the year.
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Daily Glimpse with Jeanne
May 17, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
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Moving Images: Sparkles and Wine
May 17, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
I love simplicity in the arts, it can be so surprising and magical. This video is a teaser for Sparkles and Wine, a song on Opale’s upcoming album L’incandescent. As the light source rotates around a woman’s face, highlights and shadows quickly form along the contours of her face and to her subtle expressions, then disappear. It has a time-lapse quality to it, appearing as if this woman is aging. But before we see the end, it ropes back to the beginning.
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Daily Glimpse with Jeanne
May 16, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
DAY SIX
At 7:50 in the early morning I was trying to wake up Jason, while Jeanne came across unexpected Boston nature.
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Artist: Yina Kim
May 16, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
The Secret Knots is a series from illustrator Yina Kim. In this series, Yina creates portraits of strangers whom she studies in public spaces, giving each a tagline describing their imaginary lives. Although Yina does not know any of her subjects personally, she feels that unconsciously we all are connected in secret knots.
VIA: BOOOOOOOM!
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Daily Glimpse with Jeanne
May 15, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
DAY FIVE
At 8:45 in the evening I was watching Doctor Who with Jason, while Jeanne was DuckCommander, cat, demon slaying.
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Artist: Chelsey Pettyjohn
May 15, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
Over at Hideous Things. you will find things that are not so hideous. The artwork of Chelsey Pettyjohn may not seem beautiful to everyone, but I find a certain attraction to her heavy brushstrokes and thick application of paint. The unusual color choices for skin tone are intriguing and the coarse stare of her characters are perfect in her Commandments series.
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Daily Glimpse with Jeanne
May 14, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
DAY FOUR
At 3:50 in the afternoon I was finishing up paper mends on Mother Goose, while Jeanne asked so wha’da ya think? Which outfit?
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My Hand // Custom Project: Mountain Collage Coptic
May 14, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
Weggefährten is a German word that roughly translates to companions. I was approached by my client, Nadja to create a Coptic binding for a series of letters and collaged pages to present as a gift for her partner’s 40th birthday. Each page was submitted by someone who had made a meaningful connection with her partner during the course of his life. The ‘mountainous’ landscape on the covers was chosen by my client from a previous design I had done. She enjoyed the organic quality of the design and how it mimicked the pathways of life.
When I originally covered a Coptic in this manner, each section would overlap and turn-in at the tail of book. This created a very bulky edge at the tail of the book that was five layers thick as oppose to only one layer at the head. In order to avoid that excessive bulk, I cut each color section to the sized required. Once I drew out the design I was able to trace the shapes onto the paper, building in for turn-ins and a 2mm overlap. I used various shades of Hahnemuhle Ingres to create the design.
The Coptic was bound with hand-dyed linen thread to match the shade of Ingres at the six sewing stations.
In addition to Weggefährten, the Coptic was also stamped with the phrase 40 Jahre, which translates to 40 years. The words were individually stamped with brass handle letters to follow the horizon of the pathways. In order to do this irregular stamping on paper, I first trace the line my word will follow onto tracing paper. I place a piece of gold foil onto the cover, then lay down my piece of tracing paper. The hot tool stamps through the tracing paper and the gold foil. I do not remove either layer until the word is complete, this allows me to easily see where to stamp the next letter.
The color scheme of the book was quite surprising with pops of color and metallics in unusual places. The fold of each signature was highlighted with a bit of magenta Lokta to contrast with the subtle tones of the Ingres. The paste down is a gold metallic paper, which pairs nicely to the pale pink fly leaves.
In addition to the single pages of letters and collages, was a seven page comic and CD. Using the same pale pink paper as the fly leaf, I included a 4-flap enclosure at the end to house these additional pieces of reverence. The entire book is enclosed inside a magenta 4-flap enclosure for protection.
It was incredibly enjoyable to work on this project because it was outside my usual flow of work. The client’s reaction was ecstatic as she saw her vision come into being and couldn’t wait to present it to her partner. Check out more Custom Projects at Herringbone Bindery.
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Daily Glimpse with Jeanne
May 13, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
DAY THREE
At 4:30 in the afternoon I was walking to Park, while Jeanne was walkin around because it’s nice out.
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Book Artist of the Month: Susan Collard
May 13, 2013 by Erin Fletcher
A Short Course in Recollection was built by Susan Collard in 2009 for the Guild of Book Workers national exhibit Marking Time and through this book I was introduced to Susan’s work. Although the book may appear fairly plain on the outside, the interior pages are an inch thick in order to house a series of ramps and switchbacks. Susan began with her fascination of children’s toys built of ramps and towers. This literal marking of time in a direct, mechanistic, clattering fashion appealed to Susan (as did the technical challenge of interpreting that into a book).
At the top left of the first page is a vertical slot where the steel marbles are fed into the course. A blue toggle switched to the left stales the first marble upon its decent. The next marble will knock the toggle to the right and both marbles will move forward into the course on different paths. This toggle trick was inspired by woodworker, Matthias Wendel, who builds complex and ingenious marble machines. Susan approached the design of Short Course just as many artists do, by considering her materials first. In order to reduce any awkward bulkiness to the book, Susan choose steel marbles that are smaller then normal (about 7/16″). The ramps are made from ½” poplar and the face of the pages are aircraft plywood. The pages are bound together with slotted brass hinges.
Susan drafted full-size diagrams of the pages and made a cardboard model to aid in the building of Short Course. This is more planning that usual for Susan and all aesthetic elements came in after the pages started taking shape and the title of the book was chosen.
The third and fourth pages are more open, where the steel marbles can navigate more reliably. The marbles that fall to the right of the first toggle switch come down a ramp above the sleeping girl’s head, then hit a second toggle switch at her feet.
The book can only function in one position, with the pages butted together tightly so the marbles can travel freely between them. There are three distinct courses, regulated by two toggle switches. The mechanism of the book does work, but rather temperamentally and can be viewed as a metaphor for memory. Some marbles will travel the course flawlessly, while others get hung up between pages, jump a guardrail or cause a traffic jam. As Susan so elegantly says “it seems easy to extend the metaphor to include these accidents of blockage and retrieval. Perhaps the book, as is, is a better representation of our own flawed memories than if it worked reliably every time. Which is not to say I wouldn’t fix it in a heartbeat if I had the ability. Probably my favorite thing about this book was integrating more childish elements (the fairy tales, alphabet blocks, even the colors of the milk paint) with the very intricate mechanisms and depictions of machinery—as if to suggest childhood is a serious and convoluted endeavor, or that understanding the world requires great leaps of nonsense and whimsy.”
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