{"id":10908,"date":"2019-10-23T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T16:39:17","slug":"bound-books-that-is-bookbinding-investigations-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/2019\/10\/23\/bound-books-that-is-bookbinding-investigations-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound! Books, that is! Bookbinding Investigations Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA pdf doesn\u2019t do this\u2026\u201d is a phrase that Irma Boom<\/a>, renowned Dutch book designer, uses in lectures. \u201cIt refers to that which is tangible and tactile rather than screen-based,\u201d says Graphic Design Prof. Sondra Graff.<\/p>\n

It was also “the premise” says Graff, for the \u201cBookbinding Investigations\u201d workshop and exhibit that she and various students, faculty and staff members recently held in the Pomerantz Art and Design studio.<\/p>\n

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Graff led participants in paper folding techniques such as \u201cFolding to the Mountain” and an accordion method of Hedi Kyle<\/a>‘s (an inventor of creative book structures), as well as non-adhesive Origami structures.<\/p>\n

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Graphic Design Prof. Sondra Graff demonstrating a folding technique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lobsang Tsewang, Exhibition Installer for the School of Art and Design, taught a binding method using screw posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun binding a book the traditional way rather than leaving it to technology,\u201d says Tsewang (’17) who learned bookbinding from an art collective club while a Fine Arts student at FIT.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have more leverage and understanding of how the needle and thread works on paper,\u201d says Tsewang who as an intern at the Joan Mitchell Foundation<\/a> had initiated and led a bookbinding workshop.\u00a0\u201cWe mostly use that for clothing, not paper. With clothing you pierce, with paper you puncture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On display were student, faculty and staff projects, as well as books on the topic of bookmaking.<\/p>\n

One Graphic Design student, Emily Kelly, who is abroad for the semester, participated remotely. A video of her book \u201cTangigram,\u201d a play on the social media platform Instagram was shown.<\/p>\n

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Slavko Djuric, Fine Arts & Photography Tech with his “Om and Schmutz” accordion book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Slavko Djuric, a technologist from Fine Arts and Photography, displayed his “Om and Schmutz” accordion book that he made during a fellowship at the Center for Book Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Student and alumni work on display included a Hedi Kyle<\/a>\u2019s Flag Book by Troy Vasilikas and Debra Jenks; a Coptic binding by Juliana Campisi; a book made using Graphic Design Professor Vincenzo Vella’s method of binding by Anna Celine Karling Khan; a continuous book of multiple signatures by Caslon Yoon; an accordion with sewn pockets by Troy Vasilikis; an altered book, by Debra Jenks and a sculptural scroll by Tara Slattery.<\/a><\/p>\n

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DETAIL FROM SLAVKO DJURIC\u2019S \u201cOM AND SCHMUTZ\u201d ACCORDION BOOK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graphic Design Prof. Frederun Scholz had various book structures on display including a Japanese stab binding, a Coptic binding and case bound hardcover book. Prof. Graff’s work included sculptural book objects.<\/p>\n

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An accordion book with sewn pockets by Graphic Design student Troy Vasilikis (’20)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBookbinding takes books to a more expressive, conceptual and personal level,\u201d says Graff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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