Symmetries
Curious Pursuits Press
http://www.sharphandmadebooks.com/
A one-of-a-kind artist's book. Bound accordion style to paper-covered boards. With "papers: cotton Momi with crystallized mica, Canson Mi-Teintes, calligraphy parchment, unryu. Original linocut letterpress printed with Van Son ink on Mi-Teintes paper. Text, title, and accompanying symbols produced with archival inkjet printing. Other materials: metal brads, Irish linen thread, glass beads, binder's board"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC website, viewed October 8, 2014.
Artist's statement: "Symmetries is a celebration of letter-, font-, and wordplay. Some wordplay springs from the fact that certain capital letters exhibit one or more types of symmetry - namely, vertical mirror symmetry, horizontal mirror symmetry, or rotational symmetry. Described in this book's small pamphlet-stitched signature, these variations are also depicted through letter placements on the accordions' exterior surfaces. Via the sans serif Corbel font, the full complement of letters having symmetrical potential is shown through their positioning on the accordion sections, and the words created from those letters (as used only once in a word) appear on the accordions' interior surfaces. Letters with rotational symmetry appear on a small movable circle. I hope viewer-readers will leave this book thinking, which other fonts exhibit 'full symmetrical letter potential'? What if any given symmetrical letter could be used more than once in a word? What if ..."--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC website, viewed October 8, 2014.
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A one-of-a-kind artist's book. Bound accordion style to paper-covered boards. With "papers: cotton Momi with crystallized mica, Canson Mi-Teintes, calligraphy parchment, unryu. Original linocut letterpress printed with Van Son ink on Mi-Teintes paper. Text, title, and accompanying symbols produced with archival inkjet printing. Other materials: metal brads, Irish linen thread, glass beads, binder's board"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC website, viewed October 8, 2014.
Artist's statement: "Symmetries is a celebration of letter-, font-, and wordplay. Some wordplay springs from the fact that certain capital letters exhibit one or more types of symmetry - namely, vertical mirror symmetry, horizontal mirror symmetry, or rotational symmetry. Described in this book's small pamphlet-stitched signature, these variations are also depicted through letter placements on the accordions' exterior surfaces. Via the sans serif Corbel font, the full complement of letters having symmetrical potential is shown through their positioning on the accordion sections, and the words created from those letters (as used only once in a word) appear on the accordions' interior surfaces. Letters with rotational symmetry appear on a small movable circle. I hope viewer-readers will leave this book thinking, which other fonts exhibit 'full symmetrical letter potential'? What if any given symmetrical letter could be used more than once in a word? What if ..."--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC website, viewed October 8, 2014.
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