Publication

500 Handmade Books
Three of my books are featured in this new publication
from Lark Books. The book is part of their 500 Series
of books about crafts. The publication provides a wide
variety of lovely work from many different types of
book artists. Available at your local bookstore
or various online shops.
Buy a copy!

 

Newly Completed Book!

A Strawberry in the Snow is a collection of poems written by Leah Eisenbeis and illustrated by Ellen Knudson. The linocuts of animals and plants throughout the book are done in reaction to Leah's poems. The book also includes the text of a few emails exchanged between these two friends.

Typeset in Bembo and Incognito types letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on Hahnemuhle Biblio paper. The two large fold-outs in each book are printed on Kitakata. The binding is french-sewn and bound in a full-cloth, built-in groove, flat-back case. Each copy of the book is contained in a handmade clamshell box. The cloth for both the book and box is decorated with stitching done on my Janome sewing machine.

4.75” x 6.5”, 60 pages with map foldouts. Edition of 75, Signed by the author and illustrator. 2007.

$325.00

Poem from "A Strawberry in the Snow":

This Isn't a Sonnet At All Is It
(To a Chronic Alphabetizer)

the word "Advent," seeing an Afghan hound,
Bread with Cranberries, a Deer's flash of white,
the Elegance of Fish, Goats' Hooves, the sound
of Ice when water's underneath, Jellyfish, Kingfishers, the Light
of candles in a Mirror, two lights, but Not two, One.
Paul i have a Question, aRe you a Strawberry in the Snow?
someThing so Unexpected, or a snowflake in the sun,
will you stain me red with sweetness, white with glow?
my hands feel like Virgins on your skin,
chickadees. how i mix the World and you!
but i eXpect that—the line between is thin.
the world inside You, a hidden Zinnia's heart—I do
very much want to get there, but to be a part,
I should demure to your system. so here i alphabetize my heart.

 

Above:
Self-Dual (How to Walk a 30,000 Mile Tightrope)
2006

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Above:
Full page of 9 business cards, untrimmed.
Letterpress printed on Indian Khadi Gunny Sack paper from
photopolymer plates, 3 press runs.

Below:
Trimmed business cards
2007

 

Poster for Honors Lecture Series
at Mississippi State University
14" x 20" poster printed from a very large
photopolymer plate! The typeface is Helvetica Neue
Condensed Black. I designed the poster before I saw
the documentary "Helvetica". Now that I've seen the
movie, I'm more convinced that it's the right choice.
(ref. Paula Scher's comments) Letterpress printed
on Fabriano Elle Erre paper. Four runs on the press.