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Fine Bindings for Codex & Events in Seattle

02 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Book Bindings, CODEX, Future Projects, Heart of Darkness, PR and Media releases, The Intruder, The Mad Angler Poems, The Path

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Books, Chad Pastotnik, Deep Wood Press, Gerard Wozek, John Voelker, Michael Delp, Robert Traver, Sigrid Christiansen, travel

In less than a week I will be in Berkeley California for the Codex International Book Fair & Symposium. Preparations have been going full force here at Deep Wood Press creating new presentation bindings of some of the most recent books and I now have the final draft of my new Kafka translation for The Hunter Gracchus that will preview at the Fair.

A couple of updates from the last post: Exquisite Editions – An International Exhibition of Finely Printed Books now has a web page, so if you happen to be in Dublin, Ireland March 4th – April 18th stop into the National Print Museum for what looks to be a beautiful show of contemporary letterpress book editions.

The lectures and workshop I’m giving for the Seattle Book Arts Guild now has web pages up for the events here. Lectures are Feb. 12th at 7pm at the University of Washington Library, Feb. 13th at Pacific Lutheran University at 4pm and the workshop is Feb 14th & 15th at Pacific Lutheran from 9am-5pm.

With luck I may be able to get one last post up before I leave this week of some pics of the Gracchus prototype but time is running short. I’ll leave you for now with some pictures of some of the presentation bindings I’ll be bringing with me to Codex. Hopefully I will see some of you there!









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Heading east to Oak Knoll Fest XVII

29 Saturday Sep 2012

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commissioned work, fine press books, John Voelker, Robert Traver, The Intruder, travel

Ok, so I’m not putting up a lot of posts here, that’ll change once things settle into a routine again.

Right now I’m gearing up to leave on Tuesday for the Oak Knoll Fest in New Castle Delaware. I’ll have a table set up along with 40 other fine presses from around the world so if you happen to be in the neighborhood please stop by. There will be symposiums happening during Saturday and Sunday free to the public as is the exhibit hall where we will be showing (and selling) our books.

Before I go I’ve got to finish up a small commission from the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles and also get together materials for an exhibit at the State of Michigan Library and State Archives in Lansing. I’ll be giving a talk there on Oct. 27th in conjunction with the show.

New books are underway as well as getting the Deluxe editions of The Intruder finally out the door. The new apprentice, Daniel Davis, started a couple weeks ago and things are looking good for the season ahead. Please stay tuned.

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Something Fishy

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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future projects, Jim Westergard, John Voelker

Off to Voelker country. Well, actually quite aways north of there but in the same spirit anyways….

I’m bugging out for a week tomorrow. Gone Sunday through next Saturday with my friend Dave off to the Upper Peninsula of MI to an unnamed collection of remote inland lakes in the Huron Mountains. Kayaking in with a weeks worth of dry food, whiskey and shelter hoping to fill the gap with the catch of the day.

I’m waiting to get the signed prints and books back from Jim Westergard and all existing studio orders and jobs are caught up. Dave and I have been trying to get away for years and now we have the opportunity and we’re taking it.

heaven

I hate to write this when so many of you are experiencing extreme heat but it is paradise here at home at the moment. The river outside my doors is spring fed and warms to a lovely 56 degrees with the solar gain from upstream beaver ponds. Instant cooling power with multiple dips all day long (and night) and 10 degrees cooler than the village outside our valley. This is what we wait for in February when it’s been 20 below for a few days and the stove just seems to eat wood. So it’s with some little hesitation that I leave it now and head a days north into the thick of legendary black fly swarms and securing food against black bears and dodging moose. Now, with kids and a busy press schedule, I don’t get away like I used to and it’s been years since I’ve gone into the real backcountry. This time I’ve conceded to taking along  a really nice sleeping pad, comfort has snuck into weight, space and efficiency somehow.

Food for the soul and much needed nourishment for my own art, I’m taking a small sketchbook I made up and some pencils, charcoal and such. All the better to get back to “the work at hand” upon my return.

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deluxe binding of The Intruder
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Killing the Bear by Judith Minty, deluxe edition binding & slipcase
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Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
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Presentation binding for The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
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Opening spread for Minisens
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The Path
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Glenn’s intaglio plate
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Title page from Heart of Darkness
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A printed sheet next to the type form
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opening spread for the Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop
Opening spread for the Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, intaglio engravings by Chad Pastotnik.
Title page from Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
Title page from Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
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the process
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Title Page
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The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
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1,000 Artist’s Books
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Spread from Heart of Darkness
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Deluxe edition prototype
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Bower by Terrance Hayes
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Center Spread
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Killing the Bear
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spine label detail
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Deluxe copy of The Changeling's Exile
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Custom bound journal, commissioned bindery work
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Opening spread for There be Monsters
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Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
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Deluxe Mad Angler Poems detail
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Ripping Oblivion
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Chained books at Chetham's Library in Manchester, England where I was a keynote speaker at a letterpress conference.
Chained books at Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England where I was a speaker at a letterpress conference.
Cover for the book There Be Monsters
There Be Monsters.
Along with Youth by Ernest Hemingway broadside
Along with Youth
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the linoleum blocks for "The Path" center spread
the linoleum blocks for “The Path” center spread
The 6th etching for the book, "Entitled"
The 6th etching for the book, “Entitled”
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Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
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