iBookBinding Podcast

Aspects of running a bookbinder's supplies company as a family business Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUZozrlMbc 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start at only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This summer, we had a chance to visit the headquarters of @Schmedt - The World of Bookbinding -- a well-known German producer and distributor of all things related to book craft! One of the reasons for our visit was to kickstart a partnership between iBookBinding and Schmedt. From now on, you can buy a selected line of iBookBinding tools in Schmedt's webshop. Specifically printed in the colors the customers of this German company are quite used to! =) In this video, we discuss the company's history, aspects of running a family business for several generations, finding a balance between selling to artisans and larger companies, and much more! In the second part of our talk, we continue this discussion and are invited for a tour of Schmedt's showroom and warehouse. Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Schmedt: https://schmedt.com/ iBookBinding's tools in Schmedt's webshop: https://schmedt.com/brands/ibookbinding-tools/ 00:00 – Beginning 01:22 – How is it all begin - the history of the Schmedt family business 04:06 – Developing of The PräGnant machine - manual blocking press for one-off titles and name embossings 06:03 – Machine building’s part of the Schmedt’s business that started from a little workshop in the former stable 07:59 – Focus on the small bookbinders 09:35 – About trade binderies in Germany and other countries 11:37 – The International side of Schmedt’s business, participation in the printing equipment exhibition in Dusseldorf (The Drupa) 15:18 – The material part of business, starting webshop in 1997 17:20 – Modernization of the web shop nowadays 20:00 – Importance and advantage of personal presence in your own business processes 21:04 – The opportunities offered by the market in united Europe and worldwide 26:10 – Selling in small quantities of materials, the “hobby side” of the bookbinding market 27:34 – Business processes during the pandemic, the start of presenting machines via video calls 34:23 – Changes in perception and expectations from communication between sellers and clients nowadays 40:38 – Schmedt’s Machine’s display space in Hamburg 42:18 – Examples of digitally printed book edges

There's still time to send your binding! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. We discuss the upcoming International Competition with two people in charge of it: Amy Kitcherside and Talitha Wachtelborn, book professionals from the UK. You still have time to make a book and join the competition until the beginning of May. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/yKbN0iwaOdM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ More info: https://www.facebook.com/SoBcompetition https://twitter.com/sobcompetition https://www.societyofbookbinders.com/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:16 – The International Bookbinding Competition of The Society of Bookbinders 02:24 – What are the Competition categories, and who are the Judges? 06:40 – Delivery of books, catalog 08:01 – Will the public be able to see books from the Competition? 09:02 – The periodicity of The Society of Bookbinders Competition and desynchronization with the Designer Bookbinders Competition, the difference between two competitions 10:55 – More about book categories: what is the book or the book arts? 14:49 – Is there a size criteria of the book for the Competition, few words about the cases 17:19 – If Talitha and Amy wanted to enter the Competition, which category did they choose? 18:16 – More about the Restoration category 19:42 – Will be in the Competition something that fits with the Tomorrow's Past concept (modern conservation bindings for antiquarian books)? 21:45 – How many books are expected? 22:41 – The Geography of participants 26:06 – More about Historic Binding category

Come over to Sint-Niklaas on the 10th of April! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This time on Bookish Talk, we discuss the upcoming Boekbindbeurs België with Tanja Rakic from the Dutch seller of all sorts of bookish stuff Boektotaal. They have picked up the bookbinding fair in Sint-Niklaas from the previous organizer late in 2019 but haven't had a chance to run it since. So that's the first time for them and the 24th time for the Belgian fair! Please come over to Sint-Niklaas on the 10th of April if you are anywhere near. And even if not, while most of the visitors come from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the UK, there always are people coming from even further away! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3bjdZxWec Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Fair's website: https://www.boekbindbeurs.nl/en/content/sint-niklaas Boektotaal: https://www.boektotaal.nl/en/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:38 – How Boektotaal (store for bookbinders in Steenwijk, The Netherlands) become the organizer of the Bookbinders' Fair in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 02:35 – Stepan's tour around Fair (April 2019) 06:06 – What is planned at the Fair this year? 07:25 – How many sellers would normally participate, and how many participants are expected this year? 08:26 – How long is the Fair, and how many people usually come? 10:03 – Boektotaal's representation at the Fair 10:40 – Who else will participate? Some names 13:03 – What was it like – organizing a Fair like this? 16:16 – The future plans for Boektotaal, a workshop for students in The Netherlands

Clay book, book on wheels, a book inspired by Andrei Sakharov, and more! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. Pavel and I had a great opportunity to visit the library of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and talk to its director Valerij Ledenev. He showed us some of the objects related to the history of the artist's books in Russia and walked us through the library's collection of modern artist's books. Including the objects from their Single Copy project, which aims to foster the development of the artist’s book. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uix5zig7OY Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Garage Museum of Contemporary Art: https://garagemca.org/en/ https://garagemca.org/en/programs/library 00:00 – Beginning 00:33 – Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Library's project "Single Copy" 01:50 – "Catalog of projects of art works in outer space. Planetary nebulae" by Rostan Tavasiev 06:59 – How the Collection of artistic books is displayed in the Museum's Library 07:45 – Book of the "DVR" Movement "The Age of Freedom" 12:14 – "The Whales inventory book of Bespamyatnykh S." by Sergey Bespamyatnykh 17:52 – Archives of the Garage Library 20:08 – What is the archival material and should be preserved 22:18 – One of the documents from the archive: the "Needle chair" made by the father of an artist Alexey Shchegolev with using son's old spray cans 24:24 – "The Fjord" by Ludmila Baronina – the "micro-museum" of an Artist in a book 28:32 – "The Journey of a red square" – the Leporello artistic book by Natalia Smolyanskaya 30:06 – Anton Gudkov's books with graphical works, "The Siberian mantra," "mail book" 37:18 – The book of street-art artist and Urban art researcher Igor Ponosov with fragments of advertising banners 41:10 – Evgeny Strelkov's book with the silk-screened prints on paper, onion skin paper, plastic, etc. referring to the Soviet atomic project and to the figure of Andrei Sakharov 45:35 – Six-meter hand drawn leporello book by Uliana Podkorytova 51:40 – Ceramic book by Mayana Nasybullova 55:25 – Musings about what we will leave as a legacy to the archaeologists of the future 01:02:46 – Curved book with wooden cover and star-shaped book by Andrey Olenev from "The Silence Workshop" 01:06:25 – What are Valery's ambitions and plans for this project?

We return to Angaea Cuna for a workshop tour and to talk about more bookish things! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. We have already published two videos with our talks with Angaea Cuna, a bookbinder of Filipino descent who's residing and working in Hawaii. In this video, we discuss chemicals, bioarchitecture, the balance of life and death, and, yes, Angaea takes us for a tour of her studio. You can find this and the previous episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Angaea%20Cuna Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Angaea's projects: https://www.instagram.com/gaeabound/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNP3Hajfp2K55PR3rQ9HGQ 00:00 – Beginning 00:28 – Short tour around Angaea’s studio 05:07 – Working in a makeshift manner 05:53 – Palm leave books 09:59 – Angaea’s videomaking and other art 13:04 – Bookbinding’s lessons for kids and comparison this experience with teaching adults 23:16 – Angaea’s bioarchitectural classes for kids 28:11 – Changes in book conservation: using less invasive materials and chemicals 30:08 – Mummies and use of chemicals through the history 38:06 – Understanding the balance of life and death that comes from connection with nature

The tour of Kate Holland's amazing studio and more! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. In the second part of our talk with Kate Holland, we discussed education for bookbinders and the influence of art and craft on the economy. But most of the time we spend going around Kate's workshop and discussing tools, materials, and techniques. You can watch the video of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPuwxUTxkM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:30 – Is there a chance for the appearance of long-term bookbinding education programs? 05:50 – The influence of the Arts on the economy 07:32 – Therapeutic side and the mental health aspect of the Arts and Crafts 11:21 – West Dean College of Arts and Conservation 15:13 – Bookbinding courses for kids 20:24 – Workshop tour 28:46 – The prototype of the book’s display case and the miniature of “A Beetle Assembly” by Jenny Whittle, bound by Kate Holland 30:52 – Continuation of the tour around the studio: more books, tools, etc. 35:18 – Lesson to the young bookbinders: “Don’t use a press like this” 37:39 – Dyeing leather 41:16 – Philip Smith’s old hand guillotine 41:43 – More materials and gadgets 49:15 – “Make your workshop as big as you can.” 50:59 – Musings about “the Zoom-skill” nowadays

We return to Tom McEwan to discuss the state of bookbinding in Scotland! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/49HZssNznBY Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Tom's projects: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tmcewan/ Website: http://mcewan.co.uk/tm/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:44 – Earlier career 01:28 – Bookbinding in Scotland 08:21 – Teaching bookbinding in Scotland during the pandemic 10:38 – Bookbinding activities in the Glasgow School of Art 13:12 – Musings about when the design binding appeared and how to define the term “design binding.” 19:08 – Inspiration from surroundings landscape and nature of Scotland 25:13 – Influence of the previous profession: from the sculptor to bookbinder 27:26 – Titling the bindings 28:28 – Artistic techniques which help to show the orientation of the book

We continue our Booker Prize bindings series with Tom McEwan 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This time we return to our Booker Prize bindings series to discuss the binding of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam which was created by Tom McEwan. Tom is an award-winning bookbinder and the first Scottish guest on our podcast. It was a great pleasure to discuss his creative process. We have also recorded another episode of the podcast with Tom where we discuss his career and some aspects of being a bookbinder in Scotland. This video will be published later. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21f0IUufTfQ Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Tom's projects: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tmcewan/ Website: http://mcewan.co.uk/tm/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:38 – Tom’s bindings made for the Booker Prize shortlist 01:38 – A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam 04:36 – How the sheets for the Booker Prize bindings arrived 05:20 – Beginning to work on the edge decoration 05:52 – Using the sheets of blank paper to fill in the shoulders of the book while pressing 06:33 – Where to start: design concept or directly binding 07:53 – Working on the edge 08:43 – Using gold foil for gold tooling 09:19 – Dyeing leather for the cover 14:53 – How many layers of color does Tom usually apply to his design bindings? 17:03 – How long does the first stage (dyeing, silk screen printing) of work takes? Using the hair dryer to speed up the process 19:42 – The finished binding 24:41 – Tom’s favorite part of the bookbinding process 27:42 – How does Tom know that his design is finished? 30:42 – Has Tom’s taste changed through the years? 32:00 – What if other people modify your bindings? Collaborations in bookbinding 34:42 – Tom’s attitude toward the boxes for the bindings 36:01 – Tom’s approach to making bindings for the Booker Prize shortlist 40:36 - Difference between binding old/famous and modern/brand new books 45:01 – Where in the world you can find Tom’s bindings

Do some experimental bookbinding! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. We return to Ben Elbel to talk about experimental bookbinding and unusual book structures. While this episode was recorded a while ago, it stays absolutely actual. Especially as Ben was named one of the most inspiring bookish people of 2021 by the guests of our podcast! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4KPoBnsKE Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ben's projects: Elbel Libro - https://www.elbel-libro.com/ Bookbinding Out of the Box - https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bookbindingoutofthebox/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:25 - Space for creativity in the bookbinding process 02:40 - Ben’s experiments with book structure. Are there any unsolved problems and ways to improve the book’s structure? 06:43 - Experimenting as a way to give personality to a book 08:32 - Sticking to traditions vs. doing something completely new 10:33 - Places to study modern bookbinding 12:27 - Competitions in the field of experimental and innovational bookbinding 14:15 - Doing experimental bookbinding without loss of quality 15:11 - The bibliophile pleasure of traditional bookbindings

Designer Bookbinders UK Competition is well known all over the world 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This time we invited Kate Holland, an award-winning bookbinder from the UK, who is also one of the people in charge of the Designer Bookbinders UK Competition. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSGL6QI9Js Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 – Beginning 01:16 – Designer Bookbinders: one of the foremost societies dedicated to the craft of fine bookbinding 02:28 – Being a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders 06:36 – Designer Bookbinders as a worldwide society 07:13 – DB UK Bookbinding Competition: Set Book 08:59 – The concept of “The winning binding” in bookbinding competitions 11:57 – Book arts competitions in the UK that have more acceptance towards the experimental structures 13:01 – DB UK Bookbinding Competition participants: who they are? (geography, gender, age) 15:55 – How the Pandemic affected DB UK Bookbinding Competition 20:44 – The sponsors of DB UK Bookbinding Competition 23:29 – The importance of organizing bookbinding competitions 24:40 – How long has the Competition and the Designer Bookbinders Society been in existence, and how did they change over time? 26:38 – Interaction of Designer Bookbinders society with the press and social media 28:50 – Postponing the Competition and the future schedule 30:05 – Being the participant of bookbinding competitions and the social aspects of being a Fellow of Bookbinders society (such as events) 33:58 – Kate’s personal experience of taking part in bookbinding competitions 36:56 – To follow or not to follow the news in bookbinding world: the influence of other’s works on an artistic view 38:03 – Sources of inspiration for work 39:11 – Current Licentiates of the Designer Bookbinders society 41:07 – Ways to attract new licentiates to the Society 43:26 – Kate’s bookbinding course structuring approach 45:13 – Difficulties of teaching the design aspects of bookbinding and the importance of having a life experience to develop an artistic view 49:34 – Ways to collect ideas and inspiration for designs

We invited several guests to discuss the departing year. 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things. This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned! A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/WjQVAshOeYo Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark Cockram's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 01:02 – The issue with the absence of a pathway for people to serious bookbinding and book arts in the UK nowadays 03:38 – Importance of being an optimistic person when you work in a creative field 09:15 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis 11:45 – Difference in the situation with book arts in the USA and the UK 13:42 – Is there any interest in collecting arts/books among young people? 16:58 – Book arts in the USSR in the 1920-1930s 20:34 – Should the world expect new roaring 20s? 27:24 – Does the modern world have the potential for revolution in art? 29:30 – Needs in collectors in bookbinding/book arts world 35:58 – Bookbinding books at libraries 44:00 – Presence of academic programs that have book art galleries in the USA 48:39 – Richard highlights some young book artists from the USA (Colette Fu) 50:59 – Book arts in Asia 53:45 – Richard’s news from NFT world 58:48 – In memory of Derek Hood and Jeff Clemens

We invited several guests to discuss the departing year. 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things. This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned! A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark Cockram's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 07:10 – Summing up the results of this bookish year: workshops, projects, etc. 10:41 – Richard's patent of pop-up display apparatus and discussion of how books should be displayed 15:31 – Importance of proper presentation of your work, marketing in bookbinding in comparison with other arts 19:23 – Is the concept of a book more than an intellectual process, or it's "just a pretty thing"? 21:29 – Richard's plans for the next year and the impact of the pandemic on work; the triple slipcase for the first uncensored edition of Decameron made by Richard 25:39 – Prudishness and censorship: from the first editions of books to YouTube 28:37 – Kate's big project of this past year: the first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's covered in diamonds 30:12 – Mark's plans for the next year incl. plans to produce a book dedicated to his censored works 34:39 – Teaching plans 37:27 – Opportunities to study bookbinding in different countries, the importance of affordable education 40:05 – The importance of learning bookbinding in person, next to a teacher 42:37 – Richard's teaching work, critique workshops 47:14 – The largest project in terms of size done by Mark: two books around 60-80 kilos each 52:41 – Richards's largest work: North American Hand Papermaking, 1976 – when a book becomes a walk-in sculpture 59:49 – Richard's collection of American decorated publishers' bindings

This episode is in French. You can find its video version with English subtitles on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9hbEFzWi7w 🔴 Soutenez iBookBinding! Devenez un patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Le montant de contribution commence par $1 / €1 / £1 par mois seulement. Aujourd’hui nous publions le premier épisode de la version française du podcast iBookBinding. Notre présentatrice Anna Markova a parlé avec la relieure française Julie Auzillon, créatrice des techniques uniques de la reliure, la reliure Origata et la version originale de la reliure à tiges. Cette vidéo est une première partie de l’interview. Nous planifions publier la seconde partie en janvier. Si vous voulez voir plus d’épisodes de notre podcast, iBookBinding est à la recherche des bénévoles qui peuvent aider avec la correction des sous-titres français. Écoutez cet épisode sur: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz La présentatrice du podcast est Anna Markova https://www.instagram.com/annamarkova_bookhist/ Réalisé pour vous par iBookBinding. Ressources et informations pratiques sur reliure: http://www.iBookBinding.com Vous pouvez poser vos questions aux futures invités sur: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ En savoir plus sur Julie Auzillon: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/julieauzillon/ Website — https://julieauzillon.com/ YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUEWgSybuOcmJ2ax_sCSEQ Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/julie.auzillon.3 00:00 – Début 03:56 – Les études à l’Ecole Estienne et le commencement du travail en tant que relieure 08:14 – Les origins des techniques de Julie. La manque stimule la créativité. 10:25 – Les procédés de Julie 11:29 – La toute première reliure Origata – le livre de recettes de grand-maman 15:09 – Fait semblant d’être simple, mais difficile à faire 18:44 – Les relations de l’Origata avec la culture japonnaise 20:21 – Le succès du manuel sur Internet 25:43 – Les approches de Julie concernant le travail avec du papier 29:54 – La réapparition du cuir dans les reliures 35:12 – L’introduction de la reliure à tiges 36:21 – La reliure à tiges: démonstration 38:19 – Le dos de la reliure 40:23 – Le côté artistique 43:45 – Quelle est la durée optimale d’un programme d’études sur la reliure ?

Kate Holland's binding of “The Promise” by Damon Galgut 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For the second part of the series dedicated to the bindings of the 2021 Book Prize, we invited Kate Holland, to talk about her binding of “The Promise” by Damon Galgut -- this year's winner. Among other things, we touch upon the subject of using other people's creative products in your bindings and the matters of respecting the copyright. Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9nwgaYCkcM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ 00:00 – Beginning 01:34 – “The Promise” by Damon Galgut, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize 03:49 – Kate’s binding: connection of the dramatic landscape on the cover with the plot of the book 05:37 – Photographs used inside the doublures made by Gideon Mendel (from his series “The Struggle”) 07:44 – Copyrighting and credits in bookbinding 09:55 – Bookbinding description: a place for credits and useful information that also can be used by feature conservators 11:36 – Hand tooling lightning on the cover with foil 16:08 – Mono printed grass on the cover 17:59 – Hand tooling tree on the cover with matte black foil 19:32 – Hand-colored book edges 20:12 – How long does the process of binding a book for the Booker Prize goes 22:00 – Kate’s experience from several Booker bindings 22:56 – The financial side of the Booker Prize binding 24:03 – The reputation and the honor to do the book bindings for the Booker Prize 25:15 – Can a DB fellow refuse to do a binding for the Booker Prize? 28:01 – Current state of Kate’s work: commissions, teaching, etc.

Workshop tour and show & tell by Richard Minsky 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. Here is the last part of our talk with Richard Minsky, a bookbinder and book artist from the US. Richard takes us for a tour of his studio, shows us some tools and contraptions. The rest of the time we spend discussing some of his striking bindings: more than a dozen of books in total. You can find the previous chapters of this talk here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Richard%20Minsky Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 00:51 – Tour of the Richard's studio 13:08 – Richard's bindings on social issues 13:30 – "The Crisis of Democracy" bound by Minsky in 1980; sheepskin, gold, barbed wire 17:40 – "The Geography of Hunger," bound in 1988; "Friendly plastic," acrylic, endpapers with food and dog food labels 18:43 – "Tragedy and Hope" (a History of the World in Our Time) bound in 1988 with kidskin vellum tanned by Richard 21:21 – "Missile Envy," bound in 1988; installation at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, with live rockets 22:27 – "Laying Waste" book 23:50 – "Holy Terror" books 25:45 – "The Biological Time Bomb" bound with live explosives, batteries, timer, etc. 27:21 – More books 29:05 – "Freedom of Choice" (Three Poems of Love and Death by Lucie Brock-Broido), 2009; the electric chair installation 34:54 – "Pop Delusions – a House of Credit Cards" bound in 2012 – a Shrine for the 1852 Edition of Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 37:36 – Reliquary for the Ashes of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, 1993 – a work that was stolen; and other works from the United States Constitution Series 42:25 - "The Bill of Rights," limited edition set of 10 Amendments

Every year, six Designer Bookbinders' fellows are chosen to create six unique bindings for the books shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Last year, we have published a series of videos with bookbinders who took part in that project. We return to that theme this year with six new bindings. Our first guest is Mark Cockram with his binding for "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood. We hope to see the authors of all six bindings made for the Booker Prize in 2021, and currently, we have already recorded two videos and preparing to record two more. We'll see how it goes early in January. Mark Cockram is a regular guest on our podcast. You can find other talks with him here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Mark%20Cockram You can watch the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtVv8qlxL4 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:34 – Backstage of the binding processes for The Booker Prize shortlist 03:59 – Reading and interacting with the text while working 07:04 – "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood 08:03 – Difference between a "normal reading" and reading when you are looking for a visual metaphor for binding 10:15 – From a rough sketch to finished binding: how the process begins 12:47 – Difficulties with finding materials for collage on the cover of "No One Is Talking About This" 16:29 – Hiding a secret work from students and visitors of the Mark's studio 18:20 – How quotes from the book become parts of a collage as a metaphor of communication on the Internet 24:25 – Some technical moments of binding "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood 29:50 – The chicken or the egg: making a box for the binding 32:15 – Working on the book's edges 34:21 – The presentation of The Booker Prize 2021 38:11 – Collaboration of the Booker Prize and bookbinders, the difference between binding old/famous and modern/brand new books 45:05 – Interacting with the author of the text during the binding process

In this newscast, we are discussing a couple of medieval books and finds, a digitized astronomical manuscript from Uzbekistan, and a 20,000-book library, that you can buy with a mansion attached =) Watch this newscast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw8MxBT5C_M Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:13 – For Sale: Medieval Physician’s “Girdle Book” 14:18 – A library of 20,000 books for sale, along with a mansion, west of Salisbury 16:15 – Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding 19:49 – Ancient astronomy manuscript resurrected by Uzbek heritage initiative

In this second part of our talk with Richard Minsky, a bookbinder and book artist from the US, we cover a wide variety of topics: from his early works to living in a virtual world We also spend quite a few time discussing NFTs and how bookbindings can be associated with these non-fungible tokens. In the other two parts, Richard talks and shows more of his bindings, digital world, politics, history, and takes us for a tour of his studio. Stay tuned, they will be published in the upcoming weeks! You can find the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Richard%20Minsky In the preview, you can see Richard's binding of It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. You can read more about it here: https://www.minsky.com/ItCantHappenHere.htm Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 00:21 – Richard’s mid-seventies art 01:33 – First book that Richard sold to an art dealer in 1971: bookbinding version of an abstract expressionism 02:09 – “Pettigrew’s history of Egyptian Mummies” bound by Richard Minsky with linen, 1973: first “Material meets metaphor” work 03:48 – The story about Richard’s book “The Birds of North America” with pheasant skin and Nigerian goatskin 15:28 – Second Life universe; working in an artificial virtual environment; interests towards computers, Internet, and related technologies 22:26 – “The ArtWorld Market” – Richard’s avatar in the Second Life universe 25:25 – Second Life nowadays; the presence of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) there 33:54 – How bookbindings can become NFTs: Richard’s tokens 41:13 – “Minsky in bed” PDF-book as NFT 46:55 – Is it difficult to enter the NFT market? 48:05 – Ways to connect with artists who make the NFTs

WARNING! The sponsors of the ambient sound for our conversation today are the croaking Hawaiian frogs. That can be uncomfortable to listen to, but we can’t do anything about this intervention from nature! This is the second part of our talk with Angaea Cuna, a sculptor, designer, educator, and bookmaker who currently resides in Hawaii. In this episode, we talked more about respecting the local traditions, environment, and nature in book art and bookbinding. And also we discussed how Angaea presented her own immigrant's story in an artist's book that she wrote, designed, made photos for, and assembled on her own. Watch other talks with Angaea: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Angaea%20Cuna Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWJvb2tiaW5kaW5nLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Angaea's projects: https://www.instagram.com/gaeabound/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNP3Hajfp2K55PR3rQ9HGQ 00:00 - Beginning 00:53 – Angaea’s collection of bones for designing books 03:18 – Hi’iaka artist book with bone inlay into the spine, books with black paper 07:03 – Angaea’s thoughts about the tactile experience from the books while creating her designs and inspiration from nature and mythology 10:20 – More nature materials from antique stores and own garden 13:24 – Experiment with the full cycle of making paper from Ma’o - Hawaiian cotton without professional equipment 17:51 – Japanese binding book with dragons on paper and cover inspired by the Bakunawa - a serpent-like dragon in Philippine mythology 20:24 – Inspiration from videogames 23:55 – Musings about taking materials from nature and environmentally conscious 30:25 – Influence of Hawaiian nature and culture on Angaea’s art, a book about growing in America as an immigrant 32:56 – DNA-tests for ethnicity and genealogy

This time we invited Richard Minsky to our podcast, a bookbinder, book artist, teacher, and many things more. In the end, the episode became a three-parter, as we recorded with Richard for more than 3 hours. The first part is mostly dedicated to beginnings: printing in childhood, first experiences in bookbinding, shifting to art as a social commentary, and the origins of the Center for Book Arts in New York. In the other two parts, Richard talks and shows more of his bindings, digital world, politics, history, and takes us for a tour of his studio. Stay tuned, they will be published in the upcoming weeks! You can watch the video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cvo1iNOGC0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 00:55 – Richard’s childhood: graphic art shop class, starting a first printing business at the age of 13 with a platen press 04:58 – Making a photo of Lyndon B. Johnson with handmade “Working press” shield 06:45 – How a printing press helped to attract 300 students to a Junior Astronomy Club’s lecture 07:48 – Promoting events and printing art through the years 09:11 – Twists of life: Path from printing to bookbinding through astrophysics, car crash, economics, violin, and chorus 16:41 – Richard’s firsts: full leather and tooled bindings made as a student of Daniel G. Knowlton in 1969 17:54 – “The Georgics” of Virgil with the French method of onlay: Learning on your own mistakes to make your bookbinding and design better 21:52 – “Garbage or archive”: The importance of documenting the process and the results of errors 25:43 – The shift from making “just” books to making book art that is a social commentary 34:28 – Origins of the Center for Book Arts in New York City 41:44 – Disconnect between the communities: design, art, and bookbinding. Possibility of collaborations 50:00 – Theoretical critical apparatus for discussion of bookbinding and book art. The “Material meets metaphor” methodology introduced by Richard Minsky 55:31 – Should an artist be versed in all the theories or can it be an intuitive art? Differences between art and craft 57:28 – Importance of being able to talk about your art 58:07 – Continuation of the story of the origin of the Center for Book Arts in New York City