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!

 

 


New Exhibitions

June 20 – July 11, 2008
Artist Books: Exhibition Exploring
the Art of the Book
Owl and Lion Gallery
Edinburgh, Scotland

May 9 – June 28, 2008
Multiples: An International Juried Show
of Editioned Artists' Books

East End Applied Arts
Aurora, Colorado

March 20 – April 26, 2008
Secrets and Lies: A Juried Exhibition
of Contemporary Artist's Books

23 Sandy Gallery
Portland, Oregon

February 14 – March 7, 2008
I Love You Love Me
Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery
Highland Heights, Kentucky

March – May, 2008
11th Biennial J. Carl Hertzog Award Competition
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas


Above: Poster for NKU exhibit

September – December, 2007
On Its Feet: Contemporary Letterpress Book Art
Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery
Highland Heights, Kentucky


August 1 – September 21, 2007
Works from Crooked Letter Press
Fifth Floor Gallery
MFA in the Book Arts Program
The University of Alabama


Above: Invite for TIME exhibit in Dublin, Ireland
2007 – 2008
Two-year traveling exhibit
International Exhibition — Time
Book Art Museum of Lodz
Lodz, Poland

March 17th – May 17th, 2007
The Savvy Grape
Starkville, Mississippi
Two-person exhibit

October 8 – 31, 2006
Fifth Anniversary Bright Hill Press
North American Juried Book Arts Exhibition
at the Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Center
Treadwell, New York

Crooked Letter News

Crooked Letter Press
Business Card

New letterpress printed business card!
This card is interesting because I designed
the big 9-up structure, then trimmed the cards
down to 3-1/2" x 2". The process was a lot
of fun because the results were a surprise.

Gelatin Print Blowout Sale!
Gelatin Plate Monoprints
for sale, very lovely, very inexpensive.
All of the gelatin prints on the PRINTS page
have been price reduced because I have way
too many of these gorgeous prints and I want
other people to have them, not me.

Interview on Craftsanity.com
Check out the podcast interview with me
by Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood. And listen to
the other great interviews with craftspeople
at
craftsanity.com. You'll be inspired!


letterpress printing, letterress, vandeok

 

 

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.

 

 

 

New Book v A Strawberry in the Snow

 

 

 

B O O K S

Crooked Letter Press produces fine letterpress printed books. Books produced by the press range from personal artistic expressions to collaborations with poets and writers.

Shown left: Crooked Trajectory letterpress book, linoleum reduction, handset metal type, single section case binding, handmade pulled paste paper covers, bookcloth spine

 

 

B R O A D S I D E S

Broadsides are flat, single-sided prints usually combining type and image. Crooked Letter Press creates broadsides combining artwork (linoleum block prints, line drawings, etc.) and poetry, prose, or other type of verse.

Shown left: The Thing That Puts Me letterpress print broadside, handset wooden and metal types.

 

P R I N T S

Crooked Letter Press creates other types of print works: gelatin plate monoprints, letterpress artworks with no typography, or pure typographic expressions.

Shown left: 6" x 9.5" gelatin plate monoprint

 

I N V I T A T I O N S

Crooked Letter Press designs and letterpress prints various stationery for bridal showers, weddings, baby showers and birth announcements.

Shown left: Wall-Jezerinac wedding invitation

 

 

B L A N KSB O O K Sx&xB O X E S

Crooked Letter Press creates boxes, blank books and journals in various sizes and binding styles, both non-adhesive and case binding structures. Covers are made of combinations of handmade paste papers, or special decorative papers, and lovely bookcloths or leather.

Shown left: Treasure Boxes Cloth-covered boxes with paper strap closure. Each box contains three vintage decorations.