Ingress / Egress
Gainesville, FL: Crooked Letter Press, 2015. Hardcover. Number 41 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. According to the artist: "'Ingress / Egress' is an artist's book that contemplates the design of artists' books. The intent of the piece is to encourage ideation on the theme "books are ..." [It is composed of] six French-fold booklets that use geometry, visual design, text, and imagery to investigate topics such as "Books Are Architecture" and "Books Are Collections." They are all letterpress printed on Japanese mulberry paper from photopolymer plates by the Boxcar Press in Humanist, Spectrum, and Spindle (a typeface created by Ellen Knudson). The unbound pages are housed in a clamshell box covered in blue cloth with a diamond shaped paper title label to the front board. This book was selected as one of the five finalists for the 2017 Minnesota Center for Book Arts Bienniel Prize. Size: 6 x 9 inches. Unpaginated.
The Crooked Letter Press is the imprint of book artist and graphic designer, Ellen Knudson. Ellen is currently Associate in Book Arts at The University of Florida. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from The University of Alabama. Ellen has been a book artist for 17 years and a professional graphic designer for 20+ years. She has taught letterpress printing and Book Arts at The University of Florida, The University of Alabama, and graphic design at Mississippi State University and Wayne State University. Her work is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, The Library of Congress, and many other national and international collections. PRI/032425. Fine.
Item #37864
Price: $400.00