Tag: Offset Lithography

• Tools for Extinction

  

  Tools for Extinction is an anthology made of, for, against, within and in spite of this pandemic.

  Levi Sherman

  September 3, 2020

  Review

  2020, Anthology, Book design, COVID-19, Denise Rose Hansen, Fiction, Lolli Editions, Monograph, Nonfiction, Offset Lithography, Pandemic, Perfect / Double-Fan Adhesive, Poetry, Prose, Publication, publishing, small press, Softcover, Studio Ard, Text, Translation

• One Hundred Excellent Flowers

  

  Calling on the aesthetics and politics of the 1960s, One Hundred Excellent Flowers questions the possibility of freedom in the absence of truth.

  Levi Sherman

  July 6, 2020

  Review

  artists’ book, book art, book review, Clifton Meador, color separations, Essay, flowers, half-tone, junk food, Offset Lithography, Photography, pop art, Screw Post, Softcover, Text

• Five Oceans in a Teaspoon

  

  Five Oceans in a TeaspoonDennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer2019 Paper Crown Press6.875 × 6.5 × 1 in.300 pagesSmyth-sewn hardcoverOffset inside with foil-stamped cloth spine and paper cover The 1984 book French Fries by Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer is a landmark work of visual literature. In the years since, Bernstein’s poetry has continued to…

  Levi Sherman

  November 12, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, Case Binding, Collaboration, Dennis J. Bernstein, dyslexia, Foil Stamp, Hardcover, Memoir, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Poetry, Smyth Sewing, Text, text and image, typography, visual literature, visual poetry, Warren Lehrer

• 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