Tag: Belly Band

• Oriental Silk

  Oriental SilkXiaowen ZhuDesign by Michael Mason, CHEVAL2020Hatje Cantz 7 × 9.5 in. closed196 pagesSmyth-sewn, clothbound hardcoverOffset inside with screenprinted cover Oriental Silk is a Los Angeles import and retail company, a film, and an ever-evolving installation project by self-described “visual poet and aesthetic researcher” Xiaowen Zhu. The book Oriental Silk is a bit of each […]

  Eric Morris-Pusey

  March 20, 2021

  Review

  2020, Belly Band, Documentary, Hardcover, Hatje Cantz, Michael Mason, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Oriental Silk, Photography, Screen Print, Smyth Sewing, Text, Xiaowen Zhu

• Voragem

  

  VoragemIsabel Baraona and Catarina Domingues2016 7.625 × 10.25 in.32 pagesBinding: Dos-a-dos; saddle-stitched pamphlets tied into the cover, with an unbound pamphlet insertedDigital and offset printingEdition of 100 As a medium, books are noteworthy for their finitude. This seems increasingly significant in an era of infinite internet and endlessly reconfigurable data. So it is perhaps surprising […]

  Levi Sherman

  February 25, 2020

  Review

  2016, art, art and writing, art writing, artists’ book, Belly Band, book review, Catarina Domingues, Collaboration, Dos-à-dos, Drawing, Isabel Baraona, Monograph, Pamphlet, Poetry, Portuguese, primary colors, Saddle Stitch, Text, voragem

• 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

• the THERE, THERE quarterly (Volume One, Issue One)

  

  the THERE, THERE quarterly, Volume One, Issue OneTravis ShafferFeaturing Zora J. Murff, Cian Oba-Smith, and Terrance Purdy2019theretherenow.www.theretherenow.com 10 × 12.5 in.18 sheetsUnbound, gathered in a belly bandRisograph the THERE, THERE quarterly is a new photo publication from Travis Shaffer’s imprint, theretherenow. Volume One, Issue One establishes the format: work by three photographers is Risograph printed […]

  Levi Sherman

  July 22, 2019

  Review

  2019, Anthology, artists’ book, Belly Band, book review, Cian Oba-Smith, Periodical, photobook, Photography, portfolio, Risograph, Terrance Purdy, theretherenow, Travis Shaffer, Unbound, Zora J. Murff