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Lancashire Zine, Artist Book + Multiples Fair

Murray went on the Friday
Sarah and Daisy went the Saturday
Run by the Wonderful Craig Atkinson of Cafe Royal
caferoyal.org
craigatkinson.co.uk

Free ticket to Lancashire zine fair

free ticket to accompany Murray to Lancashire Zine Fair - I'm up to my eye balls with paperwork and stuff, and will not be able to go!

details of my ticket:
07:19 Birmingham New Street
08:51 Preston
Coach B, Seat 25A (Window) Virgin Trains

Return - Friday 29th January 2010
Depart Arrive Seating Travel by
21:17 Preston
22:55 Birmingham New Street
Coach D, Seat 44A (Window) Virgin Trains

first come first serve

A1 Screen Printed Posters

2010 Lancashire Zine, Artists' Book and Multiple Fair.

2010 Lancashire Zine, Artists' Book and Multiple Fair.
Friday January 29th 10.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday January 30th 10.00am - 4.00pm
More details - www.zinefair.com

Up&Coming Fairs 2010

hi all!

There will be a flurry of artists' book fairs that our students will be attending and selling work at:


29th - 30th January 2010 Lancashire Zine, Artists' Book and Multiple Fair.

13th February 2010 Alternative Small Press Fair LONDON

12th - 13th March 2010 The 13th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair LEEDS

20th March 2010 Book Arts Fair in conjunction with "The Secret Library of Solihull" Solihull

27th March 2010 Thing 2010

and don't forget that we are offering the more talented of image makers (read the conditions part) an opportunity to have their work printed by us:

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The Chiu Fold

who dares mock the chiu fold!

http://artistsbookcollective.blogspot.com/2008/11/chiu-fold.html

as you can see it will make a 16 page book unlike the more common eight fold that is a very common fold:

http://www.emilymartin.com/takeit.htm
http://www.fimp.net/makeabook.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h1YzYpJjrM

but my favourite must be weed man:

chiu fold or common fold??

gasp! someone else has stumbled upon you 8 page book out of an A4 PIECE OF PAPER!!!!

http://ikatbag.blogspot.com/2009/05/origami-part-2.html

Cut Click Mail Art

I hope this isn't too late, I hadn't thought to post about this here until I accidentally made an artist's book! There's a mail art exhibition in Grimsby which promises to have any received work in the exhibition.

Details: http://cut-click.tumblr.com/

It really inspired me, and here's some bits I made for it (sorry about the poor scans, it's all I can do away from uni and we're frozen in to our tiny little village!):

Postcard:

Jacob's ladder book (made from an envelope to go with the theme mail art):

Moveable books/ paper engineering

Hey everyone!

Is anyone interested in making a moveable books collective? Sounds like a really wicked idea as ink soup seem to be going really well now and helping each other a lot, and after the talk the other day I'm really inspired to look at this type of thing and it seemed like a lot of people were really interested. We can all learn together and it should be really helpful, rather than us all going really slowly and making the mistakes all on our own. Comment on this if you're interested:

http://picture-books-anonymous.blogspot.com/2009/12/moveable-books-paper-engineering.html

(Although to be honest I'm not great at organising people so don't expect me to get everything together!!!)

Chloe

pages 3-4 text to go on the left

not sure how this reads what you think going on.

Cut Click

Just in case anyone's interested, I found this:

http://cut-click.tumblr.com/

Mail art is going to be the theme of their next exhibition and I thought people here might find it quite interesting; books are also mentioned. The magazine that they make (link at the top) is quite interesting too :)

Craig Atkinson TALK & WORKSHOP

Hi all!

Can you please note that preparation for CRAIG'S workshop starts on the 18th of November (and lasts a week - 18th - 25th November):

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Atkinson

I thought for my talk I'd mention the following:

Education and lead up to returning to drawing.
Why zines.
Start of Café Royal / setting up a business
Selling other peoples' work
Publishing other peoples' work
Marketing
Book fairs
The future!


What I'd like the students to do, for the workshop, is to:

Bearing in mind that the outcome will be a b/w zine, document the week ahead [18th - 25th November] in a way that suits them. E.G. photography, collecting, drawing, recording etc. The collections / photos etc will then be collated into a zine called 'seven days'. Each student will make a zine of the same title, but the content and format is entirely their choice.

Although zines will be photocopied b/w, they might have screen printed / photographic images within, or collage, or original drawings etc. Indesign could be used to lay the zine out. The student can decide on the print run, I suppose depending on what is available. A minimum is a run of 10.

The zine doesn't have to be a 'diary' as such. It could be a collection of sweet wrappers found through the week, each carefully documented and presented as a series of b/w photographs, for example. It could be a drawing made at exactly 10am each day for exactly five minutes, or it could be a Richard Long type documented journey, or a
record of gps positions...

I'll bring some artists' books and zines with me to show various formats. I think if the students who want to do this get their stuff together by the 25th, then we can talk about it and they can look through what I bring in, then decide how they want to produce their zine. So I suppose rather than a 'class' type workshop it'll be a discussion,over a table, of ideas and examples which they can take forward in their own time. The main thing is that they collect the weeks bits for their publication and have it with them on Wednesday."

Manchester Artists' Book fair report

Had a great time meeting loads of interesting exhibitors as well as punters. Such a good time, that I forgot to take pictures of our own table. Daisy however may have some? Meanwhile I took a selection of photos of other tables:

Met Craig Atkinson of Cafe Royal, and he will be coming up on the 25th of November to give a talk and hold a workshop: http://www.caferoyal.org/
Wirral Metropolitan College produces some beautifully crafted fine art books http://www.a-n.co.uk/degrees_unedited/projects/single/523609

Selling a fusion of monochromatic retro psychedelic vintage engraving styled books, Borbonesa: http://www.borbonesa.co.uk/

The infamous Tom Sowden of Centre for Fine Print Research http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/people.htm.

individuals also hired their own table, such as Mary Lundguist http://www.marylundquist.com/

and Sarah Morpeth http://www.sarahmorpeth.com/

ABC Friday collection time 11:00 o'clock Print room

All books that you want to sell at the fair to be ready for selection & collection at 11 o'clock Friday 6th in print room

Your books should be:

1, signed, dated & editioned in pencil, with contact details preferably on separate card,

2, packaged in either cellophane, or paper bags or more bespoke methods

3, priced - you can tell me the price and I will list it accordingly - let me have a desired sale price (beginning of day), and a lowest sale price (end of day)

good luck