Mixed media and book artist Holly Dean will be hosting a series of weekend workshops starting the second Saturday in February at her studio in Merrickville. Workshops range from how to incorporate text into your artwork to creating hand-bound muse journals, all with the goal to help you learn new techniques and approaches to your [...]
Each Spring, The Alcuin Society holds an annual competition for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The 30th anniversary of the Alcuin Book Awards will be held this coming March 31st and is open to all Canadian book designers. The Alcuin Society encourages students, private presses and self publishing artists to participate in this [...]
Hope to see everyone there!!
Margaret Lock will once again be running her letterpress course this July. I would highly recommend taking it for anyone looking to get a solid understanding of proper printing techniques and design. Details are below: Introduction to Typesetting and Letterpress Printing Workshop 2-3 July, 2011 taught by Margaret Lock, at 231 Johnson Street, Kingston Workshop hours are [...]
Hand Papermaking’s 13th Annual Online Auction is taking place April 30 through May 7, 2011 with opening bids are as low as $10. This year’s offerings include rare and unusual books about papermaking, stunning paper artwork, spirit paper, prints and broadsides, raw fiber, studio time, paper clothing, marbled and decorated sheets, historic artifacts, gift items, and more! [...]
The winners of the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design for 2010 have been selected. With well over 200 Canadian entries across 9 provinces and 96 publishers, these winners certainly had a strong field with which to contend. The winners are as follows: CHILDREN First prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN and NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designers of The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll [...]
Interested in the book arts? Curious as to what book binding courses may be happening in the Ottawa area? Want to know more about how you can get involved in the local books arts community? Look no further than the new CBBAG Ottawa Valley Site on Groupspaces.com for all your News, Events, Member Information and [...]
The time and vision that went into these book based artworks must have been staggering. This is just one of the amazing pieces that “The Book Surgeon” (Brian Dettmer) has done, many of which can be seen on the Modern Met page here. Also check out the galleries on his website here.
Ottawa Press Gang member Natasha Herman’s Redbone Bindery was highlighted in an excellent article in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday covering the history of her love for books and the restoration work she does to keep old treasures alive. I have called upon Natasha’s skills in the past a few times and have always been overjoyed at the fine craftmanship [...]
With Canada Reads sporting it’s first ever Graphic Novel in the running for the title this year, the CBC has launched a contest in which a daring artist must explain one of their favourite books in 4 panels, graphic novel style. Friend and fellow bookseller Andrew Cornell’s son Harry has put in an excellent submission [...]