Monday July 19, 6:30–8 pm, Free
CU Boulder Campus
Norlin Commons room E113
(through the east entrance)
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From Press to Pixels: Historical Tools and New/Digital Media
Is there really anything new about producing text and images? From fine letterpress printing to avant–garde experimentation in digital media production, historical media shapes the contemporary and e-media recapitulates the past.
Listen in on a discussion between [...]

Sunday July 18th, 6pm, Free
CU Boulder Campus
Norlin Commons room E113
(through the east entrance)
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/map.htm
From Homer to BFF: about how we express ourselves
a slide talk by Brian Allen, an interested amateur
A rapid ride from pre-history to a speculative future in the ways humans communicate. Socrates was not happy about the written word; calligraphic writing’s influence on early printed work; printing types [...]

A Collaborative Class in Letterpress Printing

with Brian Allen (co-founder, with Julia Seko, of the Book Arts League)
Using a small project to demonstrate and to stimulate discussion and sharing, we’ll talk about the major aspects of letterpress printing from beginning to end. Brian will share resources, tips, and information gleaned from years of failure and success [...]

A Wayzegoose?!?
Is that how everybody buys letterpresses and other equipment?
The Rocky Mountain Letterpress Society and the Book Arts League are pleased to host a Letterpress/Book Arts Sale and Wayzegoose on July 10 at Ewing Farm.  This is a local opportunity to get the equipment you need, meet book arts artisans, and exchange information with old friends and [...]

Books Pondered, Then Eaten
The 11th annual International Edible Book Show and Tea took place on Sunday, April 11 around tea time at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Several dozen “bookish” entries were created by artists of wide-ranging age and ability. All ingredients in the creations were to be edible, though were not required to [...]

The Book Arts League welcomes everyone to the long-awaited Farmhouse Grand Opening at the historic Ewing Farm, held on February 27, 2010

This annual collation of small printed pieces by members and friends of the Book Arts League is a terrific opportunity to exercise your creativity and expand your paper arts collection.
All submissions should be 5″ x 7″ or smaller, in an edition of 30 (note this is down from 40 in 2008).
Deadline is October 1st, 2009.
Send [...]