Print Culture

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Laser cut and 3D printing for books! Part of our tour of Small Advisory Press. College Book Arts Association Conference, January 2017

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(via Book Catalogue | Small Craft Advisory Press) Some of the books we saw at Small Craft Advisory Press while at the CBAA conference this January

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A sample of artist’s books from the Rare Book collection at Florida State University. College Book Arts Association Conference, 2017

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Artist Influences for Etching

Artists selected by students from printmaking websites. Note that not all prints selected are etchings.

Tomma Abts, four new etchings, 2015 Link

Maya Malachowski Bajak, Uprooted, etching Link

Neil Brigham, Down East, linocut, Link

Wayne Thiebaud, shoes, 1979 Link

Yvonne Jaquette, Clouds Obscuring San Diego Link

Matt Phillips, Guitar tele,  2010, Link

James Siena, Heliopolis Variation, Link

Fred Wilson, Dawn, Link

Chris Ofili, Ranbow-Grey Seale, Link

April Gornick, Suspended Sky, Link

Elizabeth Blackadder, Wildflowers, Link

Olivia Bliss, Earra Ghiadheal, Link

Benny Andrews, Image I, Link

Neil Brigham, Homecoming Buck, Link

Jane Hammond, A room of One’s Own, Link

MC Escher, 3 worlds, lithograph, Link

Durer, Meloncolia I, Link

Audubon, Virginian partridge, Link

Shepard Fairey, Retro + modern, Link

Gideon Bok, Link

John Gibson, Bandelier, Link

Alasdir Wallace, Haiku III, Link

David Palmer, Window Ledge, Link

Ambreen Butt, Link

Walton Ford, Link

Laura Owens, Link

Nancy Haver, Florence Diner-old days, Link

Kate Downie, The Art of Crossing- Bridges, Link

A Held, Straits of Malacca II, Link

Aaron Noble, Rainbow 6, Link

Lynn Peterfreud, Constellation, Link

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An excellent list of print galleries in New York. I will be going to a number of the Chelsea galleries during the NY trip tomorrow. Students are welcome to join me, go to the Met (required for many of you) or pick and choose other NYC galleries.

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(via Shop Talk: Adapting Traditional Printmaking Processes For Textiles | SDA NewsBlog)

Useful list of possible printmaking techniques on textiles for print II/ independent study.

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(via Creative Review - A2 & New North Press’ 3D-printed letterpress font) 3D printed letterpress font! : http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/september/a23d-a2-type-new-north-press

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Flats and fills ready for paleolithic sink.  So ready so start proofing! Soon.

* the squares and rectangles with a x carve into the are positioned to hold the paper up while hand printing, otherwise certain papers sag and that can give you poor registration or double lines.  So the squares will not be printed.

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(via collagraph process at Swansea Print Workshop)

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(via Collagraph / Embossing | Washington Printmakers Gallery) For students experimenting with collagraphs this page has a wide variety of examples.

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(via Xu Bing | Carved type for Book from the Sky | China | The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Sample pages from Xu Bing's Book from the Ground: From Point-to-Point

"The man, who remains unnamed, seeks to advance his career and find love, but, like many of us, spends most of his time tending the minutiae of daily life.... Xu's Everyman is an icon — that is, an actual icon."

-- Sheila Melvin (full article linked here)

Relief Print (linocut)

1.    Think of 3 simple icons that represent something important about you. Draw them on a sheet of scrap paper.

2.    Choose your favorite icon. Use a permanent marker to draw on your block. The icon should fill the block. Images will be reversed when you print them, so draw backwards if direction is important.

3.    Carve out the white space on the block so your icon is the only flat raised area on your block.

4.    Proof your icon 3 times

5.    Print your icon in combination with at least two other icons so that you have a simple sentence. You can mix and match by borrowing blocks from other students.

6.    Use one color of ink per icon.

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Working on a book for the floating library project. The book is designed to be water resistant (TW graphic ink on Tyvek) because it will be part of a library located on a raft on the middle of Cedar Lake in Minneapolis. The text is printed on vellum laser jet paper.

In order to produce the book within a week and a half I designed it so that I could print 6 pages per screen. I chose to print on the floor because of the screen size.

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After trying to document this painting inside and contending with uneven lighting and terrible shadows I turned to the lessons I learned as an art student. 

It is best to use natural lighting to document your work.

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In the spirit of fun jobs: alum shay spaniola (BFA ‘10) started her own company, bunglo, which “promotes a healthy and meditative lifestyle by designing peaceful textiles for the eyes and soul.”

Shay’s about to launch a bedding collection for NY designers. Go Stamps entrepreneurs!

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For my students interested in textiles...

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Working on litho stones in the atrium of the art building to take advantage of the beautiful light.