Tag: Monograph

• 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

• Understanding Molecular Typography

  

  Understanding Molecular TypographyWoody LeslieH.F. Henderson2019Ugly Duckling Presseuglyducklingpresse.org 5 × 7 in.128 pagesBinding: Smyth-sewnOffset inside with foil-stamped wrap Editor’s note: this review contains spoilers. I struggled over how to review this book, and made the determination to identify it as a work of fiction (satire, specifically) and review it as such. I hesitate to out the…

  Levi Sherman

  September 6, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, autofiction, book art, Fiction, Foil Stamp, Humor, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Satire, Smyth Sewing, Softcover, Text, typography, Ugly Duckling Presse, Woody Leslie

• 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

• Notes from Byzantium

  

  Notes from ByzantiumShelly Taylor and Eben Goff, ed. AB Gorham2019Black Rock Presswww.unr.edu/art/black-rock-press 7 × 9 × .25 in.60 pagesBinding: Softcover codex with sewn signaturesFoil cover and HP Indigo inside The combination of poetry by Shelly Taylor and art by Eben Goff is not an obvious choice, but then, the best books are often surprising. Both…

  Levi Sherman

  May 27, 2019

  Review

  2019, AB Gorham, art, art and writing, artists’ book, book art, Eben Goff, Foil Stamp, HP Indigo, hybrid publication, Link Stitch, Monograph, oil engraving, Photography, Poetry, publishing, Shelly Taylor, Softcover, Text, wax