CBBAG The Art of the Book '98 - Prize Winning Entries

The Art of the Book '98 Prize Winning Entries

The Bookbinder's Warehouse Award for Fine Binding

Reg Beatty, Canada
King Orféo
Goatskin with purple heart spine pieces and toggles.
29.5 x 17 x 3 cm.
1997
FINE BINDING

299.GIF (121k)

William Cowley Award for Fine Binding

Hélène Francoeur, Canada
Endgrain
Engraved leather, suede, and parchment binding in a suede and paper clamshell box.
30 x 23 x 6.5 cm.
1996
FINE BINDING

092.GIF (171k)

The Japanese Paper Place Award for Fine Binding

Charlotte Shashoua, Canada
Untitled
Exposed sewing with four leather bands, covered with Japanese paper on sculptural boards.
29.25 x 23 x 4 cm.
1996
FINE BINDING

040.GIF (152k)

Bookmakers International Award for Fine Binding

Dawn Kristin Skinner, Canada
Point of the Graver
Simplified binding sewn visibly on bands of brown buffalo leather; spine and box edges of burgundy Oasis goatskin; book covers and box spine, top, and bottom in brown buffalo leather; doublures of Japanese paper; title tooled in palladium.
24 x 16 x 4 cm.
1996
FINE BINDING

219.GIF (160k)

Unisource Award for Artists' Books

Jacques Fournier, Canada
La passion du sens
Sekishu-Banshi-Tsuru (type of Japanese paper), maple, slate, glass, bronze, wax linen tread, collaboration with Denise Desautels and Sylvia Safdie.
21.5 x 36 x 19 cm.
1996
ARTISTS' BOOKS

005.GIF (81k)

St. Armand Paper Award for Artists' Books

Emily Martin, United States
Social Insecurity
Pop up book with hand painted and mixed media pop ups, computer printed text.
21.5 x 18 x 10 cm.
1996
ARTISTS' BOOKS

191.GIF (87k)

Woolfitts Art Enterprises Inc. Award for Calligraphy

Nancy Ruth Jackson, United States
Hymn 1
Gouache, marbled paper, and ink on board.
51 x 51 cm.
1996
CALLIGRAPHY

305.GIF (100k)

William Cowley Award for Fine Printing

Margaret Lock, Canada
Poem about Nothing
Text by William of Poitiers, translation by Fred Lock; woodcuts by the artist, Baskerville type printed on Twinrocker's One Hundred Percent Linen handmade paper; three-board portfolio with Japanese handmade paper boards and end papers (suminagashi and aramé) and linen spines and foreedge.
26.8 x 16.6 cm.
1995
FINE PRINTING

054.GIF (128k)

Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Award for Fine Printing

William Rueter, Canada
Cantigas de Amigo
Letterpress printed book and wood engravings.
22.9 x 14.9 x 9 cm.
1997
FINE PRINTING

252.GIF (66k)

William Rueter and Don Taylor, Canada
Kafka - An Ancient Manuscript
Letterpress printed book and paste paper illustrations, paste paper covered boards, vellum spine.
30 x 20 x 1.5 cm.
1997
FINE PRINTING

253.GIF (113k)

Aboveground Art Supplies Award for Fine Printing

Alan Stein, Canada
In Mexico
Hand printed book with 10 wood engravings by printer, frontispiece hand coloured and illuminated in 23k gold leaf, cover hand printed lino cut mounted on boards with gold stamped linen hinge (edition of 50).
30.5 x 23 x 2.4 cm.
1996-97
FINE PRINTING

042.GIF (101k)

Colophon Book Arts Suply for Decorated Paper

Barbara Lazarus Metz, United States
Garden of Verses
Hand marbled paper with acrylic.
61 x 45.7 cm.
1996
DECORATED PAPER

285.GIF (182k)

Harcourt Bindery Award for Box Making
Japanese Paper Place Award for Box Making

Cybèle Young, Canada
Sidewalk
Two level box with letterpress detail housing a book of reduction linoleum prints and handset type corresponding with ten letterpress printed sculptures made of gampi tissue on wire frames.
12.6 x 23 x 40.6 cm.
1997
BOX MAKING

256.GIF (99k)

Ontario Crafts Council Design Award

Kristy Lewis & Linda K. Johnson, United States
On the Line
Cardboard, robe, linen, and clothes pins.
13 x 14.5 x 2 cm.
1996
ARTISTS' BOOKS

168.GIF (105k)