Release: Book Arts Fair Vendor List

Big Announcement! 

Our list of wonderful vendors for The OCAD University 28th Annual Book Arts Fair is officially full and ready to be released! We've got yet another spectacular group of artists and bookbinders ready to amaze us all with their unique handcrafted goods and celebrate this fantastic fair!

 Look forward to seeing you all there!

Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild

Grace Notes Press

Sprouts Press

Samantha Ross & John Ekonomakos

Renata Janiszewski

Micheline Montgomery

Sherwood Press

eX Press

Xushan Li 

Frederick Turner

Albert Kwon

Krystina Plante

Diana Sze & Phuong Nguyen 

Iris Karuna & Sabine Spare

Friends of the Osborne Collection

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Snap + Tumble

Debbie Waker

Denise Moraze

Biting Dog

Greyweathers Press

Allison Philp & Ashley Eisen 

Don Taylor Bookbinder 

The Papertrail

Thee Hellbox Press

Cemetery Photos + Flipbooks

Locks' Press

Porcupine's Quill

The Church Street Press

Isabella Chang Fong

The Aliquando Press

Kozo Studio

Don Black Linecasting

Jackson Creek Press

Naz Rahbar & Nilou Afshar

Behrang Doosti & Shapour Shahidi

With a Y Designs by Lynda Plante

Franny Rutchinski 

Acadia Arts and Rare Books

Hello! Stuff

Leah Ataide 

The Printmaking Department Thesis Group '13

Kelvin Lam & Tatjama Petkovic

Inky Apron

Jen Bernstein 

Iron Rabbit Bindery

Mary Ma & Andrea Manica

Saba Bushnaq

Melissa Cormier

Spark Box Studio

Pomegranate Letterpress

Susan Grace Van Beek Rogers

West Meadow Press

Gaspereau Press

Stinky Apron

Jocelyn Kearns

Kosa Kolektiv

Upcoming: The OCAD University 28th Annual Book Arts Fair

OCAD University is proud to present the 28th Annual Book Arts Fair!

OCAD University - 100 McCaul Street, Toronto

Saturday December 1st, 2012

10am - 5pm

Celebrating and exhibiting the work of artists, printmakers, bookbinders and others involved in the creation of original handmade books, prints, paper, zines and small press publications. 

Just in time for the holiday season you will find exceptional one of a kind goods, and meet with like-minded people who are passionate about what they do!

Join the Facebook event page HERE

For more information about this years fair or if you are 

interested in being a vendor next year contact bookartsfair@gmail.com

See you there!

Poster design by Krystina Plante

Papermaking with Remnants




Kitchen set-up.

For the Remnants volume of thesis books, I collected all of my paper waste over a 6 month period, including TTC transfers, receipts, coupons, post-it notes, sketches, bank statements, etc. I then made sheets of paper out of these remnants and bound this volume of books with it; bringing the concept full circle!










Tore all remnants into 1" squares.

Blended until pulp was even.

Strained excess water.

Put all strained pulp to the side.

Added sizing to pulp before adding it to the vat of water.

Long format sheets on the pelan, ready to be pressed and dried.

Playing With Paper

Papermaking always relaxes me. I find solace in the quiet calm of the paper studio. After being inspired last week, I decided to take a break from printing to just play.

This piece was inspired by a book a friend lent me called The Archive. In it is an excerpt from a book called The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away by Ilya Kabakov. In it he talks about how all of us have accumulated piles of paper either on our desk, or in the kitchen, or on our coffee tables. Every once in a while we take the time to sort through these papers and organize them into sub-categories: receipts, mementos, bills, garbage, etc. But what if you honestly couldn't differentiate between what was important and what was garbage? Then everything would be of the same value.

I always have these little piles of papers around my room, so I brought a bag of them into the studio and used them to illustrate this point. Text from the book will later be printed on top of the finished paper.

Started with a thick base sheet of cotton linter and flax noils.

Started layering accumulated papers from home.

Laminating found papers between sheets of handmade paper, then repeating.

Continued until layers were nearly indistinguishable from one another.

Finished product soon to be posted.