Teaching

DB Lecture Series 2010-2011

Designers Bookbinders highly regarded and popular series of lectures will take place monthly through October to March (except December).

All lectures will be held at:

The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1
Nearest tube stations are Holborn and Russell Square.

Tuesday evening lectures start at 6.30pm
Saturday lectures start at 10.30am / 12 noon / 2.00pm / 3.30pm
All lectures will last approx. 1 hour.

Purchased singly on the day, per lecture admission will remain the same as before:
DB members £5; non-members £7; students £2.50

The cost of four Saturday lectures will be:
DB members £18; non-members £26; students £9

Organizers Rachel and Julia welcome ideas for future lectures or any suggestions for improvements to the format of the series.

Rachel Ward-Sale and Julia Dummett
T: 01273 486718
E: lectures@designerbookbinders.org.uk

Tuesday 5th October 2010
Annette Friedrich
Play Along the Lines of… Annette Friedrich traces her bindings of the last years.

Derek Hood
The Space Between the Lines: Adding to design by subtracting.

Saturday 30th October 2010
10.30am: Gerald Fleuss
The Legacy of Calligrapher Edward Johnston: The work of the Edward Johnston Foundation in maintaining the link with Johnston’s work and the significance of his legacy in the digital age.

12 noon: Lester Capon
Extreme Bookbinding Again: A second voyage to Ethiopia, this time to repair vellum fans and a short retelling of my visit there in 2006 to preserve the sixth-century Gospels at the monastery of Abuna Garima.

2.00pm: Angela James & James Brockman
The Cockerell Bindery: Two DB Fellows relate their experiences of working with Sandy Cockerell.

3.30pm: Sue Doggett
‘Everything in the world exists to end up in a book’: An illustrated talk on the difficult problem of leaving things out. Research, content, design and execution – how and why I make the things I do.

Tuesday 30th November 2010
Bruce Howard
Oak Tree Fine Press – Bound To Do Good: How a passion for books has been used to unite authors and artists around the world to help children made vulnerable by HIV/Aids.

Saturday 8th January 2011
10.30am: Susan Allix
Balancing Acts:  One Artist's Books, and how words, images and bindings influence each other in the making of the complete book.

12 noon: Stephen Conway
25 and Still Counting:  A short review of 25 years of running a provincial craft bindery..

2.00pm: Tom Perkins
Contemporary Letter Carving in Stone:  A personal view.

3.30pm: Rosemary Temperley
Paper-engineered Books:  An explanation of paper engineering and how it has been used in the field of book publication.

Tuesday 1st February 2011
Melvin Jefferson – The Middleton Lecture
Conservation and Preservation in The Parker Library at Cambridge University: Past, Present and Future.

Tuesday 1st March 2011
Jen Lindsay
Equivalents - Approaches to Making: How can we create our best work? By looking at the work of various artists and makers this talk suggests ways in which we can develop the conditions for creative thinking and making.