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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
High Tide Press (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998
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My printshop contains a motorized Brand etching press and a Vandercook 219 proving press. The type is printed letterpress, either from Linotype slugs or hand set. Display type is from a collection of wood and metal faces assembled over the years, including some old fonts from the nineteenth century.
The collagraph (a print pulled from a collage plate of cardboard, paper, sand, fabric, and found objects) is a particularly favored technique of mine and most of my images are created by this method.
I do not bind my books, but use several binders whose work I have come to respect for their craftsmanship and ability. I have clear ideas as to what form these bindings should take to complement my own work. I am also convinced that text and image should reinforce and relate to each other: simple concept, but difficult achievement.