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We invited several guests to discuss the departing year.

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For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things.

This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned!

A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special

Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/WjQVAshOeYo

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Studio 5 Book Arts

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Follow Kate Holland:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/

Find out more about Richard Minsky:

- https://minsky.com/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky

- https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky

- https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky

00:00 – Beginning

01:02 – The issue with the absence of a pathway for people to serious bookbinding and book arts in the UK nowadays

03:38 – Importance of being an optimistic person when you work in a creative field

09:15 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis

11:45 – Difference in the situation with book arts in the USA and the UK

13:42 – Is there any interest in collecting arts/books among young people?

16:58 – Book arts in the USSR in the 1920-1930s

20:34 – Should the world expect new roaring 20s?

27:24 – Does the modern world have the potential for revolution in art?

29:30 – Needs in collectors in bookbinding/book arts world

35:58 – Bookbinding books at libraries

44:00 – Presence of academic programs that have book art galleries in the USA

48:39 – Richard highlights some young book artists from the USA (Colette Fu)

50:59 – Book arts in Asia

53:45 – Richard’s news from NFT world

58:48 – In memory of Derek Hood and Jeff Clemens

We invited several guests to discuss the departing year.

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For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things.

This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned!

A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special

Listen to this episode on:

- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding

- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102

- Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz

Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com

You can ask our future guests questions on:

Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/

Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS

Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/

To follow Mark Cockram's projects, use the links below:

https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/

https://twitter.com/markbookartist

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g

https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9

Studio 5 Book Arts

http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/

Follow Kate Holland:

Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/

Find out more about Richard Minsky:

- https://minsky.com/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky

- https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky

- https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky

00:00 – Beginning

07:10 – Summing up the results of this bookish year: workshops, projects, etc.

10:41 – Richard's patent of pop-up display apparatus and discussion of how books should be displayed

15:31 – Importance of proper presentation of your work, marketing in bookbinding in comparison with other arts

19:23 – Is the concept of a book more than an intellectual process, or it's "just a pretty thing"?

21:29 – Richard's plans for the next year and the impact of the pandemic on work; the triple slipcase for the first uncensored edition of Decameron made by Richard

25:39 – Prudishness and censorship: from the first editions of books to YouTube

28:37 – Kate's big project of this past year: the first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's covered in diamonds

30:12 – Mark's plans for the next year incl. plans to produce a book dedicated to his censored works

34:39 – Teaching plans

37:27 – Opportunities to study bookbinding in different countries, the importance of affordable education

40:05 – The importance of learning bookbinding in person, next to a teacher

42:37 – Richard's teaching work, critique workshops

47:14 – The largest project in terms of size done by Mark: two books around 60-80 kilos each

52:41 – Richards's largest work: North American Hand Papermaking, 1976 – when a book becomes a walk-in sculpture

59:49 – Richard's collection of American decorated publishers' bindings

This episode is in French. You can find its video version with English subtitles on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9hbEFzWi7w

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Aujourd’hui nous publions le premier épisode de la version française du podcast iBookBinding. Notre présentatrice Anna Markova a parlé avec la relieure française Julie Auzillon, créatrice des techniques uniques de la reliure, la reliure Origata et la version originale de la reliure à tiges.

Cette vidéo est une première partie de l’interview. Nous planifions publier la seconde partie en janvier.

Si vous voulez voir plus d’épisodes de notre podcast, iBookBinding est à la recherche des bénévoles qui peuvent aider avec la correction des sous-titres français.

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La présentatrice du podcast est Anna Markova

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00:00 – Début

03:56 – Les études à l’Ecole Estienne et le commencement du travail en tant que relieure

08:14 – Les origins des techniques de Julie. La manque stimule la créativité.

10:25 – Les procédés de Julie

11:29 – La toute première reliure Origata – le livre de recettes de grand-maman

15:09 – Fait semblant d’être simple, mais difficile à faire

18:44 – Les relations de l’Origata avec la culture japonnaise

20:21 – Le succès du manuel sur Internet

25:43 – Les approches de Julie concernant le travail avec du papier

29:54 – La réapparition du cuir dans les reliures

35:12 – L’introduction de la reliure à tiges

36:21 – La reliure à tiges: démonstration

38:19 – Le dos de la reliure

40:23 – Le côté artistique

43:45 – Quelle est la durée optimale d’un programme d’études sur la reliure ?

Kate Holland's binding of “The Promise” by Damon Galgut

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For the second part of the series dedicated to the bindings of the 2021 Book Prize, we invited Kate Holland, to talk about her binding of “The Promise” by Damon Galgut -- this year's winner.

Among other things, we touch upon the subject of using other people's creative products in your bindings and the matters of respecting the copyright.

Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9nwgaYCkcM

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00:00 – Beginning

01:34 – “The Promise” by Damon Galgut, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize

03:49 – Kate’s binding: connection of the dramatic landscape on the cover with the plot of the book

05:37 – Photographs used inside the doublures made by Gideon Mendel (from his series “The Struggle”)

07:44 – Copyrighting and credits in bookbinding

09:55 – Bookbinding description: a place for credits and useful information that also can be used by feature conservators

11:36 – Hand tooling lightning on the cover with foil

16:08 – Mono printed grass on the cover

17:59 – Hand tooling tree on the cover with matte black foil

19:32 – Hand-colored book edges

20:12 – How long does the process of binding a book for the Booker Prize goes

22:00 – Kate’s experience from several Booker bindings

22:56 – The financial side of the Booker Prize binding

24:03 – The reputation and the honor to do the book bindings for the Booker Prize

25:15 – Can a DB fellow refuse to do a binding for the Booker Prize?

28:01 – Current state of Kate’s work: commissions, teaching, etc.

Workshop tour and show & tell by Richard Minsky

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Here is the last part of our talk with Richard Minsky, a bookbinder and book artist from the US. Richard takes us for a tour of his studio, shows us some tools and contraptions. The rest of the time we spend discussing some of his striking bindings: more than a dozen of books in total.

You can find the previous chapters of this talk here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Richard%20Minsky

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Find out more about Richard Minsky:

- https://minsky.com/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky

- https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky

- https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky

00:00 – Beginning

00:51 – Tour of the Richard's studio

13:08 – Richard's bindings on social issues

13:30 – "The Crisis of Democracy" bound by Minsky in 1980; sheepskin, gold, barbed wire

17:40 – "The Geography of Hunger," bound in 1988; "Friendly plastic," acrylic, endpapers with food and dog food labels

18:43 – "Tragedy and Hope" (a History of the World in Our Time) bound in 1988 with kidskin vellum tanned by Richard

21:21 – "Missile Envy," bound in 1988; installation at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, with live rockets

22:27 – "Laying Waste" book

23:50 – "Holy Terror" books

25:45 – "The Biological Time Bomb" bound with live explosives, batteries, timer, etc.

27:21 – More books

29:05 – "Freedom of Choice" (Three Poems of Love and Death by Lucie Brock-Broido), 2009; the electric chair installation

34:54 – "Pop Delusions – a House of Credit Cards" bound in 2012 – a Shrine for the 1852 Edition of Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

37:36 – Reliquary for the Ashes of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, 1993 – a work that was stolen; and other works from the United States Constitution Series

42:25 - "The Bill of Rights," limited edition set of 10 Amendments

Every year, six Designer Bookbinders' fellows are chosen to create six unique bindings for the books shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Last year, we have published a series of videos with bookbinders who took part in that project. We return to that theme this year with six new bindings. Our first guest is Mark Cockram with his binding for "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood.

We hope to see the authors of all six bindings made for the Booker Prize in 2021, and currently, we have already recorded two videos and preparing to record two more. We'll see how it goes early in January.

Mark Cockram is a regular guest on our podcast. You can find other talks with him here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Mark%20Cockram

You can watch the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtVv8qlxL4

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00:00 – Beginning

00:34 – Backstage of the binding processes for The Booker Prize shortlist

03:59 – Reading and interacting with the text while working

07:04 – "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood

08:03 – Difference between a "normal reading" and reading when you are looking for a visual metaphor for binding

10:15 – From a rough sketch to finished binding: how the process begins

12:47 – Difficulties with finding materials for collage on the cover of "No One Is Talking About This"

16:29 – Hiding a secret work from students and visitors of the Mark's studio

18:20 – How quotes from the book become parts of a collage as a metaphor of communication on the Internet

24:25 – Some technical moments of binding "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood

29:50 – The chicken or the egg: making a box for the binding

32:15 – Working on the book's edges

34:21 – The presentation of The Booker Prize 2021

38:11 – Collaboration of the Booker Prize and bookbinders, the difference between binding old/famous and modern/brand new books

45:05 – Interacting with the author of the text during the binding process

In this newscast, we are discussing a couple of medieval books and finds, a digitized astronomical manuscript from Uzbekistan, and a 20,000-book library, that you can buy with a mansion attached =)

Watch this newscast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw8MxBT5C_M

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00:00 – Beginning

00:13 – For Sale: Medieval Physician’s “Girdle Book”

14:18 – A library of 20,000 books for sale, along with a mansion, west of Salisbury

16:15 – Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding

19:49 – Ancient astronomy manuscript resurrected by Uzbek heritage initiative

In this second part of our talk with Richard Minsky, a bookbinder and book artist from the US, we cover a wide variety of topics: from his early works to living in a virtual world We also spend quite a few time discussing NFTs and how bookbindings can be associated with these non-fungible tokens.

In the other two parts, Richard talks and shows more of his bindings, digital world, politics, history, and takes us for a tour of his studio. Stay tuned, they will be published in the upcoming weeks!

You can find the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Richard%20Minsky

In the preview, you can see Richard's binding of It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. You can read more about it here: https://www.minsky.com/ItCantHappenHere.htm

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Find out more about Richard Minsky:

- https://minsky.com/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky

- https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky

- https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky

00:00 – Beginning

00:21 – Richard’s mid-seventies art

01:33 – First book that Richard sold to an art dealer in 1971: bookbinding version of an abstract expressionism

02:09 – “Pettigrew’s history of Egyptian Mummies” bound by Richard Minsky with linen, 1973: first “Material meets metaphor” work

03:48 – The story about Richard’s book “The Birds of North America” with pheasant skin and Nigerian goatskin

15:28 – Second Life universe; working in an artificial virtual environment; interests towards computers, Internet, and related technologies

22:26 – “The ArtWorld Market” – Richard’s avatar in the Second Life universe

25:25 – Second Life nowadays; the presence of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) there

33:54 – How bookbindings can become NFTs: Richard’s tokens

41:13 – “Minsky in bed” PDF-book as NFT

46:55 – Is it difficult to enter the NFT market?

48:05 – Ways to connect with artists who make the NFTs

WARNING!

The sponsors of the ambient sound for our conversation today are the croaking Hawaiian frogs. That can be uncomfortable to listen to, but we can’t do anything about this intervention from nature!

This is the second part of our talk with Angaea Cuna, a sculptor, designer, educator, and bookmaker who currently resides in Hawaii. In this episode, we talked more about respecting the local traditions, environment, and nature in book art and bookbinding. And also we discussed how Angaea presented her own immigrant's story in an artist's book that she wrote, designed, made photos for, and assembled on her own.

Watch other talks with Angaea: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Angaea%20Cuna

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00:00 - Beginning

00:53 – Angaea’s collection of bones for designing books

03:18 – Hi’iaka artist book with bone inlay into the spine, books with black paper

07:03 – Angaea’s thoughts about the tactile experience from the books while creating her designs and inspiration from nature and mythology

10:20 – More nature materials from antique stores and own garden

13:24 – Experiment with the full cycle of making paper from Ma’o - Hawaiian cotton without professional equipment

17:51 – Japanese binding book with dragons on paper and cover inspired by the Bakunawa - a serpent-like dragon in Philippine mythology

20:24 – Inspiration from videogames

23:55 – Musings about taking materials from nature and environmentally conscious

30:25 – Influence of Hawaiian nature and culture on Angaea’s art, a book about growing in America as an immigrant

32:56 – DNA-tests for ethnicity and genealogy

This time we invited Richard Minsky to our podcast, a bookbinder, book artist, teacher, and many things more. In the end, the episode became a three-parter, as we recorded with Richard for more than 3 hours. The first part is mostly dedicated to beginnings: printing in childhood, first experiences in bookbinding, shifting to art as a social commentary, and the origins of the Center for Book Arts in New York.

In the other two parts, Richard talks and shows more of his bindings, digital world, politics, history, and takes us for a tour of his studio. Stay tuned, they will be published in the upcoming weeks!

You can watch the video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cvo1iNOGC0

Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com

Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding

You can ask our future guests questions on:

Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/

Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS

Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/

Find out more about Richard Minsky:

- https://minsky.com/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky

- https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky

- https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky

00:00 – Beginning

00:55 – Richard’s childhood: graphic art shop class, starting a first printing business at the age of 13 with a platen press

04:58 – Making a photo of Lyndon B. Johnson with handmade “Working press” shield

06:45 – How a printing press helped to attract 300 students to a Junior Astronomy Club’s lecture

07:48 – Promoting events and printing art through the years

09:11 – Twists of life: Path from printing to bookbinding through astrophysics, car crash, economics, violin, and chorus

16:41 – Richard’s firsts: full leather and tooled bindings made as a student of Daniel G. Knowlton in 1969

17:54 – “The Georgics” of Virgil with the French method of onlay: Learning on your own mistakes to make your bookbinding and design better

21:52 – “Garbage or archive”: The importance of documenting the process and the results of errors

25:43 – The shift from making “just” books to making book art that is a social commentary

34:28 – Origins of the Center for Book Arts in New York City

41:44 – Disconnect between the communities: design, art, and bookbinding. Possibility of collaborations

50:00 – Theoretical critical apparatus for discussion of bookbinding and book art. The “Material meets metaphor” methodology introduced by Richard Minsky

55:31 – Should an artist be versed in all the theories or can it be an intuitive art? Differences between art and craft

57:28 – Importance of being able to talk about your art

58:07 – Continuation of the story of the origin of the Center for Book Arts in New York City