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| Ellen Knudson |
"In all of the work produced by the press, a visual space is created in which the reader/viewer is an active participant. The type is to be viewed, the imagery to be read, and vice versa. The choices of text, imagery, materials, and binding style are made entirely in support of the specific environment of the printed piece." |
| Crooked Letterpress studio Gainesville, Floirda |
Wild Girls Redux: An Operator's Manual is the revisit of a book created almost 12 years ago. It predecessor, How to Become One of the Original Wild Girls, was designed and printed in 1997. The book contains rule and instructions to achieve Wild Girl status. But there is a string of recognition that most women realize to be sexist in nature. Wild Girl Redux reexamines these issues, using motorcycle road and driving rules as text alone with images of pin-up girls and industrial schematic illustrations.
The intent of the "Operator's Manual" is tongue-in-cheek and provides the ordinary, mechanical, and absurd rules of how to operate women.
Wild Girls Redux: An Operator's Manual was the winner of the 2009 Florida Artist's Book Prize for The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and The Florida Center for the Book.
The different tactile materials of the book include pink heart paper doilies, white doily placemats, flocked paper covers and green office ledger papers.
All parts of the of the book are designed and letterpress printed from photo-polymer plates by Ellen Knudson, Crooked Letter Press, 2009. Test adapted from the Missouri Department of Revenue Motorcycle Operator Manual. Typefaces are Blue Highway, French Cursive, and Cooper Black. Paper is Indian Sunn Hemp COntemporary. Cover is flocked paper in maroon. Binging is an accordion portfolio cover with two pamphlet structures sewn in. Lining paper is Hahnemuhle Burgra in Fawn. Each book comes with a set of stickers, kept inside a yellow office mailing envelope decorated with a wrap-around belly band.
Edition of 100, $250.00
American Breeding Standards explores the systemized ruled about what comprises a good or bad horse, a good or bad woman - and the steps one might take to achieve the breed standards.
American Breeding Standards is designed and letterpress printed on Zerkall Book by Ellen Knudson, Crooked Letter Press. Images and text printed from photo-polymer plates and handset metal types. The binging structure is an exposed spine sewn on Cave Paper tapes and attached to paste paper covered boards. The book was produced in 2012-2013 and by Ellen in Gainesville, Florida. Text excerpted from American Horses and Horse Breeding (John Dimon, 1895) and Canine Breeding Standards of the German Shepherd (American Kennel Club, 2012). Other text and illustrations by the artist.
The cover of the book has a hinged pop-up that folds out. The interior of the book contains 3 foldout pages.
Edition of 60. $475.00
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| Casey Gardner |
Casey Gardner is a Californian graphic artist. She graduated CU Boulder with a degree in journalism, working in newspapers and magazines before enrolling in art school. She has a BFA in printmaking and graphic design from California College of the Arts. She lives in Berkeley, California. Along with her partner Oona Lyon's, they have a small company C+O Designs. They do graphic design, web development, print design, print making, bookmaking, book design, photography/lighting, motion graphics, videography, writing and editing.
BODY OF INQUIRY made by Casey Gardner, Set in Motion Press. It was letterpress printed and hand bound triptych with sewn codex. Materials consisted of oil-based ink, pastel, faux leather and 100% cotton paper.
It is a book of display and intimacy opening to a large format with tiny details investigation the marvel of out physicality.
The content of the books has it's importances to the beholder. But the presentation of the content is whats important to us. The three artist's books I have chosen are all letterpress with photo-polymer plates.
The concept of the books of have selected is a females view of societies view. The books I have selected were made by female book artist with a general visual image of the female body, whether it be in positive or negative context.
Besides the context of the books, I was extremely interested by the tactile qualities and craftsman ship. The bite the set type takes into the the paper to the different techniques used in the processes. The uses of different materials printed on.
