THE BOOKWEB – BOOK ARTS WEB RESOURCES
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Andrea Dezso -Multifaceted artist
Artists’ Books in Reed College’s Special Collections
Betty Bright – well-known writer on books
Combat Paper Project – Conserving the Antiquarian Libraries of Arequipa
Machinewithnoname – Doug Baulos
Painted and Silk-screened Poems by Kenneth Patchen
sailorBOYpress – Jeffrey Morin
TED – Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers
World Crafts Council North America
BOOK ARTISTS
Dorothy Simpson Krause’s Electronic Flip Book
Focus on Book Arts – Oregon book people
Mission Creek Press – Handmade books by Roberta Lavadour
Small Fires Press – Friedrich Kerksieck
Peter Koch, Printers – San Francisco
Beth Lee – Book artist
Janet Maher‘s paper & book work
Paper Souvenir – Jessica Peterson
The Works and Texts of Tom Phillips
Popular Kinetics Press – Carol Barton’s pop-up books
Cedar Fence Press – Regula Russelle
Seven Hills Press – Brian Borchardt
Lynn Sures – artist in paper
Deena Schnitman – Surface decoration of papers
Shelter Books – Orange, MA
Robbin Ami Silverberg – Handmade paper
Alice Simpson – artist books
Thorsten Dennerline – book artist
ufemisms.com – books by Norman Shapiro
Unica-T – book artists
Uninsane – J. Chadwick Johnson
Warwick Press – Carol Blinn
NON-COMMERCIAL SITES
American Craft Council
American Museum of Papermaking – home of the Dard Hunter archive of papermaking tools, books and related artifacts, in Atlanta
The American Printing History Association
artspace mackay – Australian artists books gallery
Arthur & Mata Jaffee Collection – Florida Atlanta University
Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: An Exhibition at Univ of Pennsylvania
Book Arts Directory published by Page Two, Inc.
Book Arts Press at the University of Virginia Book Arts Web, Peter Verheyen’s homepage, with many good links to the book world
Bookbinding: Process and Apparatus
Briar Press – fine site, includes an online museum of printing presses
Calligraphy, Lettering Arts & Artist Books curated by Cecelia
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
Cary Graphic Arts Press – Rochester Institute of Technology
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
Colophon Page – great book arts links
Denis Gouey Bookbinding Studio
Dressing The Text: On The Road With The Artist’s Book. Exhibition review by Thomas A. Vogler
Friends of Dard Hunter, a great group devoted to papermaking and related book-arts
Future of the Book – Gary Frost site
Getty Conservation Institute Gomez Mill House. Of high interest to hand papermakers and preservationists.
Graphion’s Online Type Museum
GYROMANCY – an artist’s book project by Roberta Lavadour
Historic Rittenhouse Town – site of America’s oldest papermill
JAB – Journal of Artist Books
“Lady Freedom Among Us,” a poem by Rita Dove, bound by Claire Van Vliet, from the University of Virginia
John DePol Collection – Rutgers University Libraries. Important American wood engraver.
John DePol Site – The University of Alabama
Richard Minsky homepage
Pop-Up World of Ann Montanaro.
The Prairie Paper Project, a “how to” on making paper from straw
Project Gutenberg – full-text versions of books
Projet Mobilivre – the traveling Airstream book exhibition
David B. Schlater at Idaho
Science and the Artist’s Book, Smithsonian Institution exhibition
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
UBUWEB – visual, concrete & sound poetry
Universiteit van Amsterdam Typographical Library
Web Del Sol – A literary arts community
BOOKBINDERS
Dry Frio Bindery in Utopia, Texas
Monique Lallier – Design book bindings
The Society of Bookbinders Booksellers
abebooks.com – Network of independent booksellers
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Fine Press Bookshop Online – Truepenny Books, Inc.
Granary Books – Steve Clay proprietor
James S. Jaffe Rare Books catalog
Oak Knoll Books and Oak Knoll Press: Booksellers and publishers of books on books
Octavo – digital editions of rare books
Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi
Superlative Books: handmade, small press, and unusual books, plus good book arts resource list
COMMERCIAL SITES
American Graphic Arts, Inc – Binding & printing machinery
Americana Exchange Rare Book Search
Blue Mammoth Design – Book cover, illustration, design
ClearBags– Bags, envelopes, boxes
Digital Art Supplies – Specialty inks and art papers coated for inkjet printers
Digital Letterpress – Bradley Hutchinson of Austin, TX
Dolce Press – Commercial letterpress
General Graphic – Graphics and printing needs
Gold’s Artworks Inc. – Papermaking supplies
inkjetart.com – Ink jet art solutions
J. Hewit & Sons homepage. Suppliers of leathers for bookbinding
Kutrimmers by Ideal
Lark Books – Great “500” series on craft
Modern Postcard – Printed postcards
The Printery – Kay Michael Kramer
Talas – Bookbinding supplies
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITES
American Academy of Bookbinding (Ah Haa School for the Arts)
BookWorks – Asheville, North Carolina book arts center
Center for Book Arts -New York City
Centro del bel libro Ascona – Swiss bookbinding and design and conservation school
Collegiate Book Art Association website
Collegiate Book Art Association Yahoo group
Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book
Grolier Club – for bibliophiles
San Franciso Bay Area Book Arts
University of Alabama MFA in the Book Arts Program
University of Idaho Art Dept, Book Arts
University of Iowa Center for the Book
Kerrytown Book Fest – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
North Bennet Street School – bookbinding
Oregon College of Art and Craft
Paper and Book Intensive summer intensive workshops in the book arts
The Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina
The Printed Page – workshops in printmaking and the book arts
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
San Francisco Center for the Book
Steve Miller’s summer ’02 letterpress class @ The Penland School
University of the Arts – MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking
Valley Ridge Arts School – workshops
Visual Studies Workshop – summer workshops
PHOTOENGRAVING AND PHOTOPOLYMER
Boxcar Press – photopolymer
Matrix Unlimited – engraving, photopolymer
Northern Engraving Company
Owosso Graphic Arts Inc. – brass, copper, magnesium photoengraver
PAPER SOURCES AND RESOURCES
American Kenaf Society – a fiber alternative
Dieu Donne Press & Paper – terrific American institution
Hand Papermaking, Inc. – great magazine
Peregrine International Banana Papers
Primrose Paperworks Co-op – Australia
toolsforpaper.com – Lee Scott Macdonald supplies
Twinrocker Papermill, the great handmade papermakers
LETTERPRESS PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, AND RESOURCES
Alembic Press – Claire & David Bolton
American Amateur Press Association
AAPA’s list of Printing Museums
Blue Barnhouse – letterpress, handmade books & publishing
Boxcar Press – Letterpress for the 21st Century
Bridge Press – Brian D. Cohen
Circle Press – Ron King
DHP – letterpress printed stationery
Fairfax Press – the mysteries of hand printing and type history
A movie on letterpress at Firefly Press – John Kristensen
Handpress – Gabriel Rummonds’ hand press site
Incline Press – Oldham, England
Kennedy Prints – Amos Kennedy
Now It’s Up To You Publications
Online Letterpress Resource Handbook
Resources for Letterpress Printers – super site
Scripp’s College Press Kitty Maryatt’s great sudents
Springtide Press – Chicago
Studio Z Mendocino Letterpress
The Fine Press Book Association
Williams Stationery – Camden, NY
The Whittington Press – England
Vandercook Presses.Info – Paul Moxon’s Vandercook World
RESOURCES & REFERENCE
AAPA’s resources for letterpress printers
Anderson-Vreeland Orbital VIII photopolymer platemaker instructions
Artist Links – developed for our UA Graduate Symposium
Boxcar Press photopolymer plate material spec sheet
DRUKsel – international fair for book makers
Founder’s Caslon typefaces – directions for use in our shop
Graphic Chemical & Ink Company – printmaking supplies
History of Books and Printing – New York Public Library online resource
Knop’s Conservation and Restoration of Books and Paper
Library of Congress – Three Centuries of Broadsides & Ephemera
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Timeline of Art History
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Timeline of Art History
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Project Gutenberg – free e-books
Sandragraph – directions on making these printing surfaces
Special & accented characters key commands
Smithsonian Institution Libraries – digital books
The Book Art Movement, 1974-1999 – paper by Richard Minsky
Tuscaloosa, Alabama – Information Typography – Jordan Davies Ode to Type
What is a Book? – Discussion held on Book_Arts-L March 1998
What is a Print? – from The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd.
TYPE SUPPLIERS
Adobe Systems Incorporated, creators of fine digital typefaces
Alphabets, Inc., Peter Fraterdeus’ digital type foundry
Bitstream, digital type foundry
Bixler Press and Letterfoundry – Skaneateles, NY
H.W. Caslon and Company Limited – historic Caslon, digitally
Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts
fonts.com – agfa Monotype
FontWorks home page
Internet Typeface Design Project
ITC, digital type foundry
Letraset, digital type foundry
Plantin-Moretus Museum Interactive CD-Rom
Sudtipos digital foundry
Type High, site for wood type