Bookbinding competition
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- entries for the competition
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- the judges deliberating
The Bodleian’s Seminar Room, Room 132 in the New Library, contained a fresher collection of books than usual this week as judging began for the Designer Bookbinders International Competition, 2009. The judges (Tom Phillips, Faith Shannon, Jeff Clements, Ed Bayntun-Coward, and Richard Ovenden) were selecting from over 250 entries, all of a limited-edition text of poems and images on the subject of water, bound in a variety of materials and styles. Over 100 of the entries will be placed on special exhibition in the Bodleian in June and this exhibition will travel to the Boston Public Library in September, and on to the Grolier Club in New York in 2010. The winning entry will be announced on 11 June 2009.
The touring exhibition will also stop at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco from Friday 12 February to Saturday 6 March, 2010.
Matthew Haley
July 31, 2009 at 2:27 pm