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:

http://abc-screenprint.blogspot.com/

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):