Handmade and Bound - Artist Book Fair

SUNDAY 20th NOVEMBER 12-6pm (this Sunday!)

Handmade & Bound is an independent fair with affordable, handmade artists’ books, comics and zines. It was conceived partly in response to the fact that there will be no London Artists book fair at the ICA in 2008, and further in response to the changes to the nature of that event when it returns in 2009 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

The event we want to have will be based on handmade but affordable books and zines. We want to achieve a good balance between artists books and zines (in the DIY punk tradition).

St Brides, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4

Nearest Tube: St Pauls (Central line, two stops from Liverpool street)

Niels Klim's journey under the ground by baron Ludvig Holberg

Louis Holberg's 1741 science fiction / fantasy / utopian / satirical novel derides his contemporary 18th century society while drawing inspiration from Thomas More's Utopia and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. It was considered too radical for Nordic culture, so the first edition was published in Latin in Germany where it circulated to a much wider audience and its popularity ensured it was quickly translated into a number of languages.

Norwich Illustration: Bookbinding session: Casing a book session Year 1

Norwich Illustration: Bookbinding session: Casing a book session Year 1: "Instructions for casing and stitching are on Moodle and in a handout in RM 129"

'A journey round my skull' blogs

A journey round my skull is an absolutely fantastic blog

'Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature. Recent obsessions: illustration and graphic design from around the world'

It contains a great collection of narrative/sequential illustration, book design, book covers etc from all sorts of sources. It would be particularly useful for the first years who are looking at sequential illustration for their 'Entrance and Exit' project!

Like this stuff from Alexandra Grinevsky's 1929 illustrations for Valery Larbaud's "Deux Artistes Lyriques."



































Lot of other stuff as well so well worth a trawl round.