Love Letters: A Gallery of Type Love Letters celebrates type, typographers, and printers – from Johann Gutenberg (c.1398-1468), who developed printing with movable type, to Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), an American typographer and book designer. Type is designed to be both functional and evocative. Type has personality,...
The art and crafts produced by the Southwest Indians is possibly the best known and most distinctive of all North American native peoples. The unique geometric designs and patterns of Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, and Pueblo rugs, pottery, jewelry, carving, and painting reaches back to ancient...
THE NEXT WORD: RED SQUARE Alan Loney (b. 1940) Malvern East VIC, Australia: Electio Editions, 2012 PR9639.3 L6 N49 2012 From the artist’s statement: “This book derives from putting two small obsessions together and seeing what happens. The first is with the typographical wonder of Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945), and...
A regional archive is a wonderful place to discover new art and explore how local artists interpret and contribute to broader cultural movements. Audio-visual archives like the one at the University of Utah are a treasure trove of works from filmmakers like Jan Andrews, whose...
BIBLIA SACRA VETERIS ET NOUI TESTAMENTI… Geneuae: Apud Petrum Santandreanum, MDLXXXIII. 1583 BS75 1583 A reissue, with a different title page, of an edition of François Estienne, Geneva, 1567. The title page of the New Testament bears the imprint: Ex Officina Francisci Stephanii, 1567. This edition was printed...
On the aftermath of the Pulse Orlando shootings, librarians, teachers, and archivists have created a list of resources (books, films, journal articles, and websites) to help people learn more about the LGBTQ and the LatinX community....
Congratulations to the Mac Group! They created a collection of scripts and management tools that were mentioned as a free resource for Mac Administrators in the "Enterprise Mac Administrator's Guide: Second Edition". From their blog: Recently, we received our order for the book “Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide: Second...
Meet Ben. He’s not your average student. Ben is a freshman at the U, a computer science major, and the dad of a 2-year-old boy named Charles-Winston. And Ben has already developed a product for the open source community – a self-replicating 3D printer....
Text & Image in Flag Books Karen Hanmer, instructor July 7 Thursday, 9:00–5:00 Book Arts Studio, J. Willard Marriott Library, Level 4 Application for this workshop is closed. The foundation of Hedi Kyle’s deceptively small and simple book flag book structure is an accordion folded spine. Flaps attached to both sides...
“Where the hooves touch the ground.” NIGHT FEET ON EARTH Ken Campbell London, England: Ken Campbell, 1986 N7433.4 C36 N44 1987 Artist’s statement: “The recent visitation by Halley’s Comet, and its image upon the Bayeux Tapestry, brought forth a poem about comets and a divine child descending:; a rather pagan...