iBookBinding Podcast

Today our bookish guest is Armina Ghazaryan, a freelance graphic designer interested in typography and branding. Currently, Armina lives in Ghent, and that's where most of the examples of the street typography discussed in this video come from.

We approached Armina because of her longstanding series of posts on Facebook and Instagram, where she shares her amazing findings.

Our guest shared a lot of photos with us during this episode. You can watch the video version on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mg-1nYgRqU0

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Type & Press: http://typeand.press/

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00:00 – Beginning

00:08 – Introduction of Armina Ghazaryan

01:20 – Street Typography Series: Inception

03:39 – Life of typography in cities: preservation, the reaction of people

05:19 – Photos of lettering and examples of typography in the city of Ghent

10:06 – Different ways to depict the digraph of the letters i and j in Dutch and Flemish languages

14:40 – Amsterdamse Krulletter (Amsterdam´s curly letter) in Ghent, Belgium

16:36 – Preserving and restoring old advertising signs and public lettering nowadays

20:37 – More photos of public lettering

27:00 – French, Dutch, and German influence on the Russian language

30:05 – More lettering photos

36:50 – Upside-down lettering, mistakes in the orientation of “S” and “N”

42:11 – Examples of unusual numbers in Ghent

44:58 – Postbox signs in the Netherlands

47:20 – Welcome to the city of Ghent: book markets, museums, and other events

We return to Jordan Jay Tanner, a bookbinder and book conservator from Kansas City, MO, to talk more about bookbinding, book conservation, collecting books about books, and other things. In this video, Jay takes us for a tour of his garage studio and discusses some making his own tools for bookbinding.

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00:00 - Beginning

00:14 - Jay’s bookbinding experience and learning calligraphy

04:20 - Tour around Jay’s garage studio

10:55 - Various conservator's equipment: curved scissors, lifting knives, needles, etc.

18:50 - Tips and tricks you get to know with experience and learning from an expert personally

20:53 - Making own tools

21:34 - Finishing Master’s degree. Taking chemistry lab classes online and offline

24:41 - Interesting time we live in

29:07 - Book’s disinfection, harm from ultraviolet light, and the influence of a camera flash

31:00 - Fighting mold on books, humidity conditions

33:50 - Bookbinders and conservators from whom Jay wants to learn in the future. New and modern techniques in bookbinding

40:32 - Online vs offline bookbinding courses and lessons

44:10 - Books made by Jay

47:35 - Box with models of corners

49:32 - “The painter’s house is never painted” - making books for personal use

This time on iBookBinding's podcast we are talking to Jordan Jay Tanner, a young bookbinder and conservator from Kansas City, MO. That's the first part of our discussion, but we have covered quite a lot here: from Jay's studies and searching for the best path to build his career, to collecting books about bookbinding and spending too much money on book hunting =)

The second chapter will be available a bit later. Jay takes us for a tour of his garage studio, we talk about tools, and discuss some of Jay's bindings there. Stay tuned and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel!

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00:00 - Beginning

00:58 - Introduction of Jay Tanner

01:58 - Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Printmaking from Kansas City Art Institute

03:00 - Future plans in bookbinding and conservation

03:32 - Book conservators around Kansas City

08:00 - Museums in Kansas City

09:22 - Path to conservation and bookbinding

11:24 - Book collection

12:34 - Cataloging collection of books about bookbinding

15:51 - Digital services and apps for cataloging books

17:53 - Choosing the books for collection

19:30 - The first edition of “The artistic crafts series of technical handbooks: Number 1. Bookbinding” by Douglas Cockerell

20:00 - Another edition of “The artistic crafts series of technical handbooks: Number 1. Bookbinding” by Douglas Cockerell with gold tooling

20:52 - “Technological handbooks. Bookbinding” by J.W. Zaehnsdorf

22:15 - Different editions of “A short history of bookbinding” by J.W. Zaehnsdorf

23:30 - A catalogue of books bound by S.T. Prideaux

24:40 - A collection of bindings made by women

26:50 - The Guild of Women-Binders and “The bindings of tomorrow”

31:27 - Top comfortable price to spend on a book and books as an investment

35:39 - Ways of buying books for collection

36:25 - Most memorable experience at a book market

37:40 - “Paul Revere and his Engraving” by W.L. Andrews

41:29 - Field of interest in bookbinding books collection

42:50 - Restoring Art Nouveau furniture

44:48 - Bookbinding books from all over the world

46:46 - The oldest books about bookbinding

49:14 - “The book of trades and library of the useful arts” with a chapter about bookbinding, 1807

52:20 - The oldest Dutch book about bookbinding

53:40 - Musings about publishing the books of trades according to the guilds’ rules

54:58 - The oldest German book of bookbinding

This time we found all the bookish objects and themes from the new Dune movie directed by Denis Villeneuve. In this video, we talk about bookbinding, languages, libraries, and handwriting of the cinematic universe of Dune.

To see the images and screenshots you can watch this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2LZ1fGSkA

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Dune languages on David J. Peterson's website: https://dedalvs.com/work/dune/

Reddit discussion of languages of Dune: https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/q9uzvu/the_different_languages_in_the_movie/

David J. Peterson's tweet about the Litany Against Fear in Chakobsa: https://twitter.com/Dedalvs/status/1452724546369253376

00:00 - Beginning

01:05 - Importance of printed books in the Dune universe

02:07 - Languages of Denis Villeneuve's Dune movie

03:12 - The influence of Russian, English, and Chinese languages on the languages of the future

06:16 - David J. Peterson - the developer of the languages of Dune

07:36 - The scroll of the Herald of Change and a minor blooper

09:55 - The difference between the approach to languages in the new Dune movie and Star Wars

10:38 - Atreides library in the Gom Jabbar scene

11:55 - Gurney Halleck's prayer book

14:57 - Chakobsa (?) praying book

17:25 - War languages of Harkonnens and Sardukar; the secret language of Tleilaxu

19:30 - The Litany Against Fear in Chakobsa

20:25 - Handwritten letter from Dr. Yueh

20:34 - Library at the abandoned research station

This time we are talking about the Boekkunstbeurs, a book arts fair held in Leiden. And our guest is Karin Cox, one of the persons in charge of this fair.

Karin is a bookbinder, book restorer, and book arts teacher from the Netherlands. And she's a member of the Stichting Handboekbinden, the Dutch bookbinders' society.

iBookBinding was a participant of the Boekkunstbeurs twice, in 2018 and 2019. And both times, it was an amazing experience. The fair is jointly organized by the society of bookbinders and the society of printers.

If you are in Europe or have a chance to visit the Netherlands early this November, we highly recommend you to visit the fair in Leiden!

Listen to this episode on:

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

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Boekkunstbeurs: https://boekkunstbeurs.nl/opening-en/

Stichting Handboekbinden: https://stichting-handboekbinden.eu/

Drukwerk in de Marge: https://drukwerkindemarge.org/

Karin Cox on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boekrestauratie

Information about getting tested: https://www.testenvoortoegang.org/

Entering or returning to the Netherlands: https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiting-the-netherlands-from-abroad/checklist-entry

00:00 - Beginning

01:54 - Introducing Boekkunstbeurs - Book Arts Fair in Leiden

06:11 - Organizing this year's fair after the last year's cancellation

09:23 - From which countries participants and visitors are coming to the fair?

10:30 - How travel limitations of this year are affecting the fair?

13:18 - Are there any online activities associated with the fair?

14:09 - How many participants and visitors usually attend the fair?

14:52 - Pieterskerk - the spacious and magnificent location for the fair

16:38 - Karin's personal experience of participating in the fair - book arts fair as a bookish club

21:11 - What kinds of workshops can you usually find at the Boekkunstbeurs?

22:42 - Is there still a chance to register as a participant?

24:08 - The financial aspects of the fair

27:42 - Join the Dutch Society of Bookbinders and support their cause!

30:52 - What other activities the Society is organizing? Competitions and challenges

34:13 - The age of participants. Starting to make books and experimenting

36:13 - The history of the Stichting Handboekbinden and its future

37:49 - Options for a more formal bookbinding education in the Benelux region

39:26 - Career of Karin Cox and her path to becoming a bookbinder, book restorer, and book arts teacher

45:18 - Current Society's bookish challenge

[English below] Hoy tenemos algo nuevo para ustedes en iBookBinding. Este es nuestro primer episodio en Español de nuestro podcast. Nuestro primer invitado es Josep Cambras, encuadernador y maestro de Barcelona, España. Nuestra anfitriona es Lucia Farias y nuestra anfitriona invitada es Rita Udina.

En la siguiente hora vamos a empezar por presentar los primeros años de la carrera de Josep y algunos encuadernadores que lo influenciaron. Continuando con su experiencia como maestro de el arte de la encuadernación.

Esta es la primera parte de nuestra charla con Josep Cambras.

Subscríbete para que no te pierdas la segunda parte!!!

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Today we start something new at iBookBinding. This is the first episode of the Spanish version of our podcast. And the first guest is Josep Cambras, a bookbinder and bookbinding teacher from Barcelona, Spain. Our host is Lucía Farías and our guest host today is Rita Udina.

During this hour, we are going to discuss many things starting with the early years of Josep's career and other bookbinders who have influenced him. And continuing to his experience as a teacher of book arts.

This is only the first part of our talk with Josep Cambras. Subscribe not to miss the second part!

Watch the video of this episode on our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfTh0xdTvo

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During this episode, we discuss Pavel's recent visit to an exhibition "Siena in the early Renaissance" that happened in Moscow this summer.

You can watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTz_-9p69r0

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With this episode of our Bookish Talk, it was the first time for us when we mixed up not only the time difference with the guest but even the date. That happened because Angaea Cuna is a book artist living in Hawaii. We arrange our Zoom call for Friday. Pavel and I joined the call in the morning and spent some 15 minutes worrying if anything happened to Angaea. Luckily pretty soon, we realized that while it was Friday morning in Moscow and Versailles, it still was Thursday evening in Hawaii. So, we had to repeat the next day!

Angaea Cuna is a sculptor, designer, educator, and bookmaker. This is the first part of our talk, and there will be two more of them. Here we discuss how she started making books, found her first tools on a low budget, and talk about some of her first artist's books.

And we'll return to Angaea in a couple of weeks for the second part of our talk!

Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/DkYGgfKA5FI

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNP3Hajfp2K55PR3rQ9HGQ

00:00 - Beginning

01:19 - From sculpture to book arts

02:57 - Acquiring first equipment and tools on a low budget

05:30 - Creative approach to bookbinding and bookbinding tools

07:54 - Mastering the craft

10:06 - Where Angaea plans to take her art and craft next?

11:25 - Curating exhibitions

12:26 - Angaea's first artist's book

15:31 - Current projects

19:09 - Angaea's clients / Telling a story / Valuing your work

26:25 - Angaea's support system / Arts and crafts markets on Hawaii

The title of this video is definitely not enough to describe everything we discussed during this 30-minute talk with Rebecca Padgham, an artist and bookmaker from the UK. Initially, we invited Rebecca after she posted in a bookish Facebook community a request for some advice concerning trimming books for a person with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder. But that definitely wasn't the only topic we covered! From making miniature books from a single sheet of A4 paper to promoting your work through Facebook and Instagram. From creating artist's books during travels to finding ways to sell your books in the year of pandemic.

You can watch the video of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyL_mrpQLT4

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Follow Rebecca's projects:

https://www.instagram.com/superpadg/

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/rebeccapadgham

https://rebeccapadgham.com/

00:00 - Beginning

00:46 - Rebecca's path to book arts

02:06 - First book projects

03:38 - What's after the university graduation?

04:29 - Selling your works at art markets

06:02 - Importance of networking

07:46 - Rebecca's creative process during the trips

08:27 - Travelog from Greece

12:19 - How Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder affects bookmaking?

14:22 - Rebecca's approach to triming books

16:17 - Setting realistic production goals

18:38 - More books

18:48 - Miniature concertina books

19:19 - Miniature book: Cats and Dogs

20:10 - Inspired by Micro Library books - Books made with a single sheet of A4 paper

21:07 - Miniature book: Pigs

23:00 - Miniature book: Noah's Ark

26:36 - Missing on art fairs in the year of pandemic and finding other ways to sell your work

29:31 - Promoting your work on social media

32:24 - Where Rebecca wants to take her crafts next?

We invited Andreas Maroulis, a Greek bookbinder currently living in the UK. Andreas won an award at the Designer Bookbinders Competition recently with his binding "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.

In this episode of our podcast, we discuss the binding, the creative process Andreas follows, and some other things like gold tooling and edge decoration.

Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTQEuG-1so

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Follow Andreas and his work:

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

Website: https://www.booksandcentaurs.com/

00:00 - Beginning

01:02 - Gold tooling prize

02:26 - Richly tooled books vs. books with minimalistic tooling

04:24 - Feedback from other members of the Society

06:11 - Creative process and design of the binding

07:17 - Graphite edges with decoration

08:39 - Gold tooling on the turn-ins

09:48 - More technical details

13:45 - How the story influenced the design

23:23 - Finding new uses for gold in bookbinding

32:08 - Graphite and maybe graphene? All sorts of edge decoration

35:17 - A comment on sanding book edges

37:57 - Design sketches and tests

43:35 - Constraints of deadlines