Everyone have a good and peaceful time.
Congratulations to all the Studio members and students past and present for making it a great year.
Saturday 22 December 2012
Thursday 20 December 2012
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Friday 30 November 2012
Saturday 3 November 2012
Designer Bookbinders Lecture
Dear All,
The next DB Lecture is TUESDAY 6th NOVEMBER 2012. 6.30 pm.
The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1
Nearest underground stations: Holborn and Russell Square
Admission: DB members and full time students £5, non-members £7
Three Saturday Lectures: DB Members and full time students £14, non-members £20
Further details from Mark Cockram: 0208 563 2158 / studio5bookarts@aol.co.uk
GLENN STORHAUG
ERIC GILL AS ENGRAVER & ILLUSTRATOR
Focusing on Gill’s work with The Golden Cockerel Press, in particular The Canterbury Tales and the legacy of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings collaborated as artist and publisher on The Golden Cockerel Press’s four-volume The Canterbury Tales only 32 years after Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris collaborated in an almost identical way on The Kelmscott Chaucer. The Kelmscott volume is widely regarded as one of the finest books ever printed in Britain, but Gill and Gibbings came much closer to the spirit of Chaucer, argues Glenn Storhaug. Their work celebrates the poet with great wit and perception, while the actual design and printing are the first realization of their shared dream: the marriage of wood and metal – a truly creative relationship between engraved woodblock illustrations and cast metal type.
Glenn Stothaug will illustrate his talk with many images by Burne-Jones and Gill, as well as the rarely seen working drawings and block-proofs privately saved by Gill. He will also read passages from The Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English
Sunday 21 October 2012
Thursday 18 October 2012
Birds and Printing.
Earlier in the year I and some friends got together to make a birthday gift for a mutual pal....
He is a keen twitcher.. say no more.
And I have been printing.... more about this later.
Thursday 27 September 2012
DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS LECTURE
DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS LECTURES 2012-2013
The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1
Nearest underground stations: Holborn and Russell Square Admission: DB members and full time students £5, non--members £7
Tues 2nd Oct 20112 6.30pm
JANE ROBERTS
FINE BINDINGS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY
Jane Roberts will survey a selections of the fine bindings in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, including the work of the greatest British and Continental binders, produced for presentation to members of the Royal Family over many centuries. The talk will also mention the continuing work ofthe Royal Bindery, where conservation work on the books in the Royal Collection is undertaken.
Sunday 23 September 2012
Bookbinders Collective at The Victoria And Albert Museum. The London Design Festival.
After a couple of prep days and a long night before I and other members of the Bookbinders collective made our way to the V and A.
We had been asked to provide some simple workshops and a demo.
bookbinding demo in the round.... great fun lots of hard work... more please.
Thursday 20 September 2012
Friday 14 September 2012
Moroc... Les tresors du royaume, edge to edge doublers.
The doublers are hand printed and dyed with the same dye stuff used for the leather with a gentle covering of bookbinders varnish. That way there is a narrative between the outside and the inside of the book. I love the way in which the doublers join everything together.
The contrast between the doubler ( on the left ) and the endpaper ( to the right ) can be seen and I also hope the mirror like aspect.
Detail of the doubler, texture and colour.
Thursday 13 September 2012
Buried Sketch Book in Bangkok Back Yard.
One of my sketch books has been buried in Bangkok.
Many thanks to Maya for the service and the pictures.
Tuesday 11 September 2012
STUDIO CAM
I am not so sure how this works.. but iI have set up a camera in the studio.
It is on the Yahoo Messenger site thing...
The address is; markcockrambooks@yahoo.com
Wish me luck as I have no Idea how this works....
Saturday 8 September 2012
Thursday 6 September 2012
Wednesday 5 September 2012
Friday 17 August 2012
Sunday 12 August 2012
Thursday 9 August 2012
Tuesday 7 August 2012
Thursday 2 August 2012
Wednesday 1 August 2012
Friday 27 July 2012
New book.... Maroc ... Les tresors du royaume.
Tuesday 24 July 2012
summer time
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Ravilious... Sanding sanding sanding.
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