Hybrid Book Conference Events

Come one, come all to the Hybrid Book Fair
Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6
1-6 in the Greshman Y. (401 S. Broad St.)
The Fair is free. Please come visit us at our chapter table!

There is also an exhibition:
The Hybrid Book: Irma Boom, Gunnar Kaldewey, and Hedi Kyle
The show will be up from June 2 to June 30
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery (333 S. Broad Street).
Hours: Monday-Friday 10-5, Wednesday 10-8, Saturday and Sunday 12-4.

Hedi Kyle and Gunnar Kaldewey will be interviewed in the opening event of the conference:
6 PM, June 4 in Solmssen Court, Hamilton Hall (320 S. Broad)

For more information click here.

Please come to these interesting events!

(book pictured above is by Hedi Kyle)

Progressive Book Party Fun

The Progressive Book Party was such fun! We all brought an accordion book along with a dish for the potluck. After a delicious meal we cleared the table and this is what we did: Each person had two minutes to draw a picture on the first panel or spread of their book. Then they passed it to the person sitting next to them who had 20 seconds to look at the picture before covering it up. Then they had 1 minute to draw what they saw. Or in many cases, what they thought they saw! The drawings began to evolve into something else. For example, a drawing that started as an umbrella turned into a flying bat. Very entertaining!

Progressive Book and Potluck Dinner

A potluck dinner and evening of drawing fun at Alice's house
May 1, 2009
5:30 - 8:30
RSVP! (click here and we will send you Alice's address)

Bring something to eat, something to drink and a book to draw in. Your accordion will need at least eight pages. Below you will find instructions for an easy accordion which is put together with a glue stick. This is just a suggestion. Make what you like. The book you bring will be passed around and each person will make a drawing in it.
Hope to see you there!

Accordion with Glue Stick

Paper is 5 1/2” high x 25” wide - 2 pieces

Fold tab of 3/8” at one end.

Fold paper in half, keep folding. (Each section is 3 1/16” wide)

Cut tab off one accordion

Open out accordion with tab, glue tab (with glue stick), fold up accordion with tab under.

Line up the two accordions, one on top of other, press down hard. Open and use bone folder to press tab again.

Covers

Cover is a 2-ply board 3 1/4” x 5 5/8”

Decorated paper is one inch larger.

Lay board on back of paper - centered. Glue corners and fold over.

Glue edges of paper, fold over and rub down with bone folder.

Attach Cover to Accordion

Interleave last page of accordion with waste paper. Glue four edges of accordion. (Throw out waste paper)

Pick up accordion and center over inside of cover. Press down. Flip over.

Glue other side. Open and using bone folder press paper firmly

An Opportunity

An Opportunity for Members of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the GBW

The Delaware Valley Chapter is taking a table at the book fair being held during the

Hybrid Book Conference at the University of the Arts on June 5th & 6th.

This is a great opportunity:

-it is free for DVC members

-you can sell your work

-your work will be eligible for purchase prizes

-your work will be seen by conference attendees

Time line:

Mail the intent to exhibit form to Claire Owen: by May 8 FOR BOOKS ONLY

Claire Owen

6129 Greene Street

Philadelphia, PA 19144

Delivery of book: Friday May 22

Bring it to:

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1314 Locust Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-546-3181 (Jennifer Rosner)

DVC Members: email me if you did not get the intent to exhibit form as an email attachment last week.

Annual Meeting

We held our Annual Meeting on Wednesday, March 18, at the Library Company with 11 people in attendance. (A record!)

The meeting resulted in several ideas for upcoming events:
- a Fast, Friendly, Free workshop with Andrew Huot sometime this Spring.
- a potluck dinner that will include a round-robin bookmaking activity.
- a Fall workshop.
Details coming soon....

We topped off the evening with a folding project. Alice Austin taught us all how to make Vade Mecums. It was a very enjoyable evening!

Hybrid Book Conference at the University of the Arts

Hello Delaware Valley Chapter Members

The chapter will be having a table at the Hybrid Book Conference at the U of A on the weekend of June 4-6. I’ve volunteered to drive this effort, and at this point I’d like to know how many of you are interested in having work displayed at the table. I also think that we should have a display of business cards and/or brochures of member’s services. You can email me directly, so I can start to get an idea of how many of you are interested in this. As we move closer I’d also like to know if any of you could help me at the conference by sitting at the table, even if for only an hour or two. This is a good opportunity of our chapter to have some visibility during this event.

My best

Claire Owen

claireowen@verizon.net

Codex Book Fair Berkeley, CA

The second biennial book fair, Considering the Book as a Work of Art, took place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley February 8 - 11. Around 140 artists from around the country and the world rented tables, showed books and attended the symposium. The talks took place in the mornings and the fair in the afternoons. I rented a table and also attended most of the symposium. My favorite talks were Karen Bleitz and Ron King. Karen makes books with machines, pop-ups, and magnets which become dynamic stages. Ron King formed Circle Press in 1967 and gave a great talk about his life and work. He might be best known for a pop-out alphabet poster that you can still buy. While his work is often graphic and mixes bold silk screen with the text, his new work is a series of sculptural Logbooks made of logs. Since there were so many artists at the fair, the opportunity to meet and talk to people was endless. The Codex organizers have done a great job creating a friendly forum for everyone who loves books! 

The Codex web site is: http://www.codexfoundation.org

by Alice Austin