Tag: 2018

• To My Unborn Child

  

  To My Unborn ChildWen-Li Chen2018 7 × 9 × 1 in. closed296 pagesSewn hardcover with exposed spineDigital printingEdition of 5 As the title implies, To My Unborn Child is an epistolary work ostensibly addressed to Chen’s then-unborn child. It addresses concerns shared by many expecting parents as well as some particular to Chen’s own inheritance…

  Levi Sherman

  April 28, 2022

  Review

  2018, Exposed Spine, Fiction, Hardcover, Laser, Link Stitch, Memoir, Monograph, Photography, Text, TITLE Collective, Wen-Li Chen

• Everything Has a Language

  

  Everything Has a LanguageMarnie Powers-Torrey2018https://faculty.utah.edu/u0047935-Marnie_Powers-Torrey/hm/index.hml 2.875 × 6.5 in. closed“Interlocking loops” accordion structureRisograph The paper engineering of Marnie Powers-Torrey’s Everything Has a Language is deceptively simple: it is a soft cover accordion with four panels. Both sides of the accordion are printed with bold, primary color imagery and coated in wax.* Riffing on Hedi Kyle’s…

  Levi Sherman

  October 1, 2019

  Review

  2018, Accordion Book, artists’ book, Belly Band, book art, Folded, Interlocking Loops, language, linguistics, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Monograph, Monoprint, primary colors, printmaking, Risograph, Single Sheet, Visual

• Lost Houses of Lyndale

  

  Lost Houses of LyndaleMatt BergstromDesign by Mary Clare Butler2018Fata Morgana Presswww.fatamorganapress.com/ 8 × 5 in.40 pagesBinding: Single-section pamphletLetterpress cover and offset inside In Lost Houses of Lyndale, Matt Bergstrom presents a history of all the recently-demolished homes along a two-block stretch in the rapidly-gentrifying Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. After a brief introduction, the book proceeds with a…

  Levi Sherman

  June 7, 2019

  Review

  2018, architecture, art writing, artists’ book, book art, book review, Chicago, Documentary, Drawing, Fata Morgana Press, history, Letterpress, Logan Square, Mary Clare Butler, Matt Bergstrom, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Pamphlet Stitch, Text