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Winter 2020/21 202 021 02 Introduction designer bookbinders contemporary book arts 20designer bookbinders newsletter | 192 | winter 2020/21 202 021 02 introduction www.designerbookbinders.org.uk 192 | winter 2020/21 editorial... Our emeritus Secretary Wendy Hood, has handed over the reins and hasn’t looked back since, leaving Designer Bookbinders to usher in a new era with Pippa Smith at the helm. Wendy, as a friend of mine always signs off ‘onward!’, and Pippa, welcome to ‘Designer Bookbinders Towers’. I’m always on the lookout for a binding to feature on the cover, or a graphic of sorts? So for the spring edition, I’m asking for your ideas of what should be on the front & back cover. What would your interpretation be? Send me a drawing, a photo or a detail and I’ll feature the one that works ‘on the cover(s)...’ ‘The Secret Lives of Colour’ by Kassia St Clair is a great book. Now, I’m certainly not going to write a review, rather give you an excerpt I read to a friend, to which she snapped ‘I’m buying that right now!’. ‘Dulux sells a Brobdingnagian array of paint colours to its non-trade customers. Beige lovers riffling through the thick colour-card wads are in for a treat. If Rope Swing, Leather Satchel, Evening Barley or Ancient Artefact don’t appeal, Brushed Fossil, Natural Hessian, Trench Coat, Nordic Sails, or any of several hundred others may well do. Those who are in a rush, however, and who don’t want to trawl through lists of evocative names, may find themselves a little stuck: not one of these pale yellow-greys is actually called ‘beige’. Don’t forget it’s a digital edition which means the links are live. Click on an email address to get in touch or a picture of a Fellow to view their work. Some links aren’t obvious, therefore if you hover over an image and your cursor changes, head over to that link... And finally, congratulations to Douglas Stuart on winning the 2020 Booker Prize with Shuggie Bain. Designer Bookbinders Fellows Stuart Brockman, Sue Doggett, Kate Holland & Derek Hood, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer and Rachel Ward-Sale all bound one of the six shortlisted novels, which gives us six pages of ‘My Booker... WiP’. p14 ‘As always, stay safe and keep well’. Troy p.s. Brobdingnagian, think Gulliver’s Travels! [email protected] www.instagram.com/troy_of_london Thank You 2020... Kathy Abbott Colin Forrest Jeremy Littlestone Neale M. Albert Paul Garcia Jen Lindsay Susan Allix Flora Ginn Ben Maggs Richard Beadsmoore Jenni Grey Glenn Malkin James Brockman Barbara Hebard Kitty Maryatt Stuart Brockman Aoife Higgins Lucy Phillips Hannah Brown Kate Holland Clare Prince Sarah Burnett-Moore Derek Hood Dominic Riley Lester Capon Wendy Hood Lori Sauer Jeff Clements Angela James Romilly Saumarez-Smith Mark Cockram Mel Jefferson Melissa Schnaible Nesta Davies Jeanette Koch Pippa Smith Sue Doggett Adelene Koh Peter Tyler Julia Dummett Alexia Kokkinou Peter D. Verheyen Judith Ellis Midori Kunikata-Cockram Rachel Ward-Sale Susan Flamm David Lanning Ella Wiggins Dr Mirjam Foot Eloise Lee welcome 03 www.designerbookbinders.org.uk 192 | winter 2020/21 view from the President’s bench... I would like to start by welcoming our new Secretary, Pippa Smith. Many of you will already know Pippa from various events and conferences, but for those of you who haven’t yet met her, please read the introduction she has written on page 4. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Wendy Hood for all her hard work on behalf of the Society over the last 13 years, she has been the backbone of the Society and will be greatly missed. The return of lockdown has disrupted several already rescheduled events. The Oxford Fine Press Book Fair has been rescheduled again to November 20th and 21st 2021 and the first two joint workshops have been postponed. The February Fellows and Licentiates meeting has been cancelled and the Executive Committee has started and will continue to hold meetings by Zoom. The only unaffected activities seem to be online, with Instagram and Facebook featuring recent work by binders from around the world. This year’s Booker Prize was broadcast live on BBC iPlayer enabling everyone to watch the ceremony. Binding related groups on Facebook such as The Business of Bookbinding are a good source of information and advice, in addition many Fellows are posting ‘work in progress’ photos and videos. These offer a fascinating insight into how binders design and execute a binding, taking viewers through the process over a period of time. As the 2021 Licentiates and Fellows Application meeting has been postponed until 2022 any binders considering applying will have an extra year to prepare. Designer Bookbinders needs new exhibiting members to survive, but when approached the reply from binders is often ‘but I am not good enough yet’. Before dismissing the idea, I would like to suggest that binders show their work to some of the Fellows to get feedback or if you are unsure about approaching someone directly ask the secretary to arrange an introduction. The lack of Designer Bookbinders social events makes it hard to meet other binders, but we Fellows are a friendly group and happy to offer advice. The closure of full-time bookbinding courses has had a devastating effect on bookbinding and we all need to do our best to support the craft and enable it to continue and flourish. Keep well and keep binding, Rachel [email protected] www.instagram.com/rachelward_sale on the cover(s)... 2021 meeting dates newsletter deadlines 2020/2021 Executive Committee spring 01st February 2021 21st January c 28 m 33 y 47 k 13 Executive Committee summer 01st May 2021 c 4 m 4 y 6 k 0 AGM Spring Meeting c 0 m 0 y 0 k 100 17th April autumn 01st August 2021 c 0 m 0 y 0 k 0 Executive Committee 12th June winter 01st November 2021 04 notices www.designerbookbinders.org.uk 192 | winter 2020/21 It has now been a couple of weeks since I officially handed over the einsr of Secretary and I have to say it has taken some adjustment for my brain to switch off after so many years! I would like to say a huge Thank You to Pippa Smith who, as you know, has taken over the role. I couldn’t have asked for an easier transition and I know Pippa will do a sterling job which I hope she will thoroughly enjoy, as did I. Being in the role for so many years meant I had the pleasure of working with many Presidents and they were all fantastic. In my last couple of years Rachel Ward-Sale gave me so much support through some difficult times and I cannot thank her enough for this. The warmth and humour of Jack London made him a wonderful Treasurer to work alongside and I hope to have many more lunches with him in the future! To the many Executive Committee members who have been in place over the years, you are a lovely bunch of people and I hope to see many of you at events in the future. And finally to the many members around the world who have sent their wishes to me, Thank you, I have been touched by your sentiments. I received an absolutely amazing leaving present from the Fellows, Licentiates and Executive Committee and I would like to say the biggest Thank You for this. You were generous beyond belief and I am a very happy girl! With my very best wishes, Wendy Hood In November, I took on the role of Secretary of Designer Bookbinders and was asked to introduce myself and say a bit about how I got here. From being a production co-ordinator at the BBC (a catch-all role and title that covered continuity, research, booking facilities, running the production office, et cetera, depending on the type of production). I moved on to a career in academic administration at the University of London. I came across bookbinding through evening classes at the wonderful City Lit. Among the many courses I took, taught by inspiring binders, I was lucky enough to study the City & Guilds in Bookbinding with Nesta Davies and Fine Binding with Kathy Abbott. Having moved to Worcestershire last year to a house ‘needing some renovation’ with an overgrown garage in the garden I can convert into a workshop. I aim to bring my professional skills to the Secretary role to support the Society and on the creative side I hope to develop my binding and further my work in textiles. I look forward to seeing you again, or to meeting you for the first time when life returns to normal, in the meantime please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Pippa Smith - [email protected] Announcement - Anthony Cains: It is with sadness that we have learned of the death of Anthony Cains on 4 November 2020. Anthony was apprenticed with E. A. Neale and studied at the London College of Printing. He was taught by Ivor Robinson, Edgar Mansfield, Bernard Middleton and William Matthews. He became an assistant to Sydney Cockerell. Later he taught at Farnham, Camberwell and Luton schools of art and the London College of Printing. He worked with the British team of bookbinders and conservators helping to rescue some of the thousands of books damaged in the disastrous floods in Florence in 1966 and became the Technical Director of Conservation at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze 1967-72.
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