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The Bookbinder | Made in Toronto

by Dan on April 8, 2011

A lovely short film about bookbinder Don Taylor made by Tate Young and Ian Daffern for the new online daily Toronto Standard:

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DODOcase

by Dan on March 31, 2011

In yesterday’s round-up I briefly mentioned DODOcase who use traditional bookbinding techniques to produce iPad and e-reader covers locally in San Francisco. Here’s a video introduction to the company and their products:

Another reason (were one needed) to get an iPad (right after Swords & Sworcery!).

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Bookbinders, 1961

March 10, 2011

Earlier this week I posted the 1947 documentary Making Books. As follow up, here’s the 1961 documentary Bookbinders from the AFL-CIO  series  “Americans at Work”: Tweet

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Monday Miscellany, Nov 3rd, 2008

November 3, 2008

The extraordinarily cool binding for Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (Ubu the King), a collaboration between bookbinder Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, as seen at blog.rightreading (pictured). Editor Chuck Adams interviewed in the November Poets & Writers Magazine. A very interesting–albeit very commercial–perspective: “For too long, in New York, we’ve been in this culture of publishing [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, Oct 22th, 2008

October 22, 2008

Having skipped Monday (thanks Amazon grid!), here’s a bumper Midweek Miscellany for your (digested) reading pleasure… Publishers put on a brave face on the economic downturn in Frankfurt according to the Washington Post (thanks for link Stephanie!): “While luxuries are increasingly unaffordable, most people still have enough money to buy a book, and booksellers could [...]

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