Alternative Finishing Techniques and the Last Wunderkammer Class

This class was advertised as a way to compensate for never having studied gold tooling. We did onlays, non-traditional tooling and splashed some gold leaf around.

Finished off the Wunderkammer, here are some of the results.

Printing Matters and Wunderkkamer

The newest release from Will Rueter's Aliquando press, 'Printing Matters.' This specially bound copy was done with leather and papers that I decorated. It is reminiscent of a type tray. It will be presented to Lock's Press as a bon voyage gift, upon their move to London.

In other news, I am approaching the final class of a course through CBBAG (http://www.cbbag.ca/home.html) called 'Wunderkammers,' where the students are making their own little personal museums. Below are some images of work in progress:

Here's a link to the Wikipedia article on 'Cabinet of Curiosities' as they are also known, if you're interested in learning more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities

Dracula

Here are some photos of a fancy rebind I did of the 1912 edition of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' with suitable red stamping and veiny endpapers.

Portfolios

Students come up with some really interesting ideas for their portfolios. Here are some of the highlights from the past year:

Red book and clamshell portfolio

Multi book clamshell

Double 'a' leather clamshell

Robot portfolio

PK page book

PK page poetry book and box

Black leather portfolio with slip case

White leather portfolio

Film reel portfolio

Pocket portfolio

Randall portfolio

The Pointyhead Chronicles Part 3: Sleeping Rough in Athens

"Sleeping Rough in Athens" was a travel story written  and printed in 2009, revised in 2012. Here are some images: 

The Pointyhead Chronicles Part 2: Annabel Lee

Pointyhead Press' first photographic book, using images taken in the winter of 2011 to accompany the text of Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee." Here's an excerpt from what I wrote in the Preface that sums up the concept:

"Every November the trees of Dovercourt, like many trees all over Toronto and other cities put on their sack cloth coats in preparation for the oncoming winter. These sober garments, suggestive of funeral cerements and historically accompanied by ashes, while suitable attire for the weeping and gnashing of teeth occasioned by the demise of a loved one, frequently transform the trees in surprising ways. They take on dramatic attitudes as if aware of the potential to express through tableaux a piece of seasonally correct thatre. This winter their gaze has evidently fallen on this classic piece of cold weather poetry."