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New News October 2008 / New York Art Book Fair
This weekend we took a field trip downtown to Phillips de Pury
where we admired clever newspapers and vinyl-bound catalogs of urban ephemera by Michalis Pichler of Berlin, The Fillip Review and other works engineered by Jeff Khonsary and Courtenay Webber of Vancouver, and stacks of books and folding papers by Dexter Sinister, New York, especially the just-in-time Library Book.
Next weekend is the Editions|Artists' Book Fair. Artists' books sometimes but by no means always = art books.
New News August 2008 / Boog City + New York Sans Temps Morts
Boog City 5th Annual Small, Small Press Fair
Graphic Union Press will be exhibiting at the Boog City Small, Small Press Fair Saturday, September 20, 2008. Stop by and visit us at Cakeshop (152 Ludlow Street between Stanton and Rivington) from 11am to 5pm. Entrance is $5. More about Boog City Festival.
New York Sans Temps Morts
We spent last Tuesday afternoon at Woodside Press in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, assembling and arranging Nate Dorr's photos in letterpress albums, and trucked the finished product home to Harlem with the generous help of Art Welder Andy and his mum. They'll be on sale here and at bookstores as soon as we wrap them up in glassine.
New News June 2008 / Release party + Seven Days story
Seven Days story
Burlington, Vt. weekly Seven Days ran a story about Biking the U.S. of Awesomeness this week.
Biking the U.S. release party at the Vermont Book Shop
The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury is hosting a party to celebrate the release of Biking the U.S. of Awesomeness. Author Nicole Grohoski will sign books. Designer Anne Callahan will thank you for coming. Coincides with Middlebury College Class of 2003 Reunion Weekend. Saturday June 7, 2008 at 4pm at the Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main Street, Middlebury, Vt.
New Titles / First title in the email series + New York City photograph album
Biking the U.S. of Awesomeness
Four recent college graduates describe their journey by bicycle from Maine to Oregon in the summer of 2005 in mass emails written to friends and family from the road. Illustrated with ink drawings. This title is the first in a series that collects and illustrates mass email travel correspondence. 64 pages, 14 illustrations. Printed by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vt. and bound by New Hampshire Bindery in Concord, N.H.
New York Sans Temps Morts
Four sets of prints from the 2008 exhibition of Nate Dorr's photography at the 139th St Branch in New York City. Three sets, Rocknroll, City, and Urbex, correspond to major sections of the exhibition; a fourth set, SXSW+, includes images not included in the exhibition. 4 sets each containing 10 9×13" photographs digitally printed at Graphic Union Press; letterpress albums produced by Woodside Press in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Upcoming Titles / Second title in the email series + postcards
Pomes for 5 Seasons
A picture-poem book printed and bound entirely within a 10 mile radius on the West Side of Manhattan island.
House of Ephemera Cards
Sets of cards with images and metadata from items in the House of Ephemera, a private collection of twentieth-century paper ephemera smaller than 8.5×11" organized into categories including Product Labels, Tags and Packaging; Product Instructions; Library Forms and Notices; and Tickets (Transportation and Admission); among others.
American Builder
(the second in a series that collects and illustrates mass email travel correspondence)