2sDay Letterpress Artist’s Book

This book is an exploration of how to let process create the content for the thing created.

I started this project by making paper and keeping a journal of the paper-making process. The text of this journal became the inspiration for letterpress composition experiments. When I had enough sheets for a book, I sequenced the pages as aesthetic compositions and bound five copies.

Created at the Rhode Island School of Design in Spring 2005. Paper is Abaca. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15.

Produced in an edition of 5 with case covered with make-ready sheets from the letterpress

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Video of the page sequence

Example of the locked-up form (mostly using magnets) on the bed of the letterpress

Opening Spread “Beautiful day today, could not pull a good sheet.”

Final Spread “Four batches and 52 days later this book is complete.”