This Tends to Happen.
[Claremont, California:]: Scripps College Press, 2005. One of ninety-nine copies. Made by students Amelia Neptune, Kristin Knaebel, Sara Hoberman, Isla Falis, Marie Sophonapanich, Theodore Weber, and Jessica Duffett under the direction of Kitty Maryatt. Signed by the students and Maryatt on the colophon. Each booklet was designed by a student in the class and features its own elaborate folded-paper format, some with pop-up and fold-out components. Illustrated in color with hand-carved linoleum blocks and magnesium relief engravings. Letterpress printed in hand-set Centaur on Frankfurt Cream, Frankfurt White, Nideggen, and Thai paper. A fine copy. Enclosed in a hand-sewn double accordion-fold binding with eight compartments. The binding was handmade by Cave Paper in Minneapolis. In a white textured slipcase (a bit smudged in places). Eight booklets (varying sizes). Item #17257
Kitty Maryat writes, “Scripps First Year students are required to read William Gibson’s science fiction novel Pattern Recognition as a preparation to discuss postmodernism. Gibson asserts that everything is pattern recognition. In this vein, students in the Typography and the Book Arts class decided how they would define patterns. They wrote texts with the idea of presenting text as image, inspired by [Dadaist artist and publisher] Iliazd [1894 – 1975], and image as readable text. In the process, they gave meaning to their pattern making,” (colophon).
Price: $300.00