Oak Knoll Fest XVII

11 Thursday Oct 2012

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I had a great time at Oak Knoll this last weekend. A big thanks to Bob and Millie Fleck for hosting once again and making us all welcome in their town, home and store. It is a lot of effort to pull off such an event and this years structure with the symposium, speakers and exhibition hall flowed seamlessly and was continually engaging.

It’s an event like this that really charges one’s batteries. The friendships get cemented, new connections are made and the opportunity to see world class work (from around the world no less) and learn from others processes is invaluable to me being stuck in the north woods most of the rest of the time.

I thought some of you might be interested in who else was at the Fest this year so here’s a link to an introduction of the presses put out on Oak Knoll’s Biblio-Blog: http://oakknollbooks.wordpress.com/tag/oak-knoll-fest/

More information about the speakers and the rest of the event can be found here: http://www.oakknoll.com/fest/

Term-cards for Oxford

01 Monday Oct 2012

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I recently finished a little commission from the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles. Timing was off getting information to me and it needed to be done before I leave for Oak Knoll tomorrow so this little offering is what I had time for but it serves it’s purpose.

I tried to keep it in a proper English vein, the main body of type is Linotype Monticello which was originally offered by the Philadelphia type founders Binny & Ronaldson in 1796 as their Roman No. 1 but then re-released, curiously enough, in 1892 as Oxford before finally being reworked and released by Linotype in 1946. Baskerville is the type for display size and the front is two ATF offerings – Morris Romanized Black (Chaucer) with Freehand.

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