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Apr 27 2017

Video: Make a Continuous Flexagon with Emily Martin

Posted on April 27, 2017January 29, 2021 by Colleen Theisen

Center for the Book faculty member and book artist Emily Martin chooses a format for each work that assists in telling the story she wants to tell with the content. This exciting new video introduces her work, especially the pieces that have a focus on circular story telling that draw upon the continuous flexagon as a format for telling that story. Stick around as Emily then demonstrates how to make the continuous flexagon format.

The pattern is below. Give it a try yourself and share the results with us by emailing colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu or tagging us @uispeccoll and using the hashtag #uiflexagon on Twitter.

 

Emily Martin’s continuous flexagon seen below:

 

Download Continuous Flexagon Pattern

 

Watch the whole video:

Stop by Special Collections to see more of Emily Martin’s work, or check out her website: http://emilymartin.com/

 

Script and host: Colleen Theisen

Artist and guest: Emily Martin

Video: Keaton Fuller

Editing: Farah Boules

Posted in EducationalTagged colleen theisen, emily martin, flexagon
Dec 18 2012

New Artist’s Books from UI Center for the Book Faculty

Posted on December 18, 2012December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

OVideo of Romeo and Juliet movingur two newest book arts acquisitions both come from instructors from the University of Iowa Center for the Book.

Romeo and Juliet (Naughty Dog Press) is a new book from Emily Martin, who teaches bookbinding and book arts classes here at the Center for the Book. Romeo and Juliet includes one line of dialogue to represent the story being told in each of the five acts, emphasizing the timelessness of the play through repetition of the chorus, and insertion of modern equivalents for Verona.  This carousel book uses a format that Emily Martin devised to allow for scenes and separate text panels. The spine tabbing, also of her devising, functions both to hold the book together and to balance the thickness at the fore-edge. The text lines were letterpress printed onto Mohawk Superfine 100 lb Text paper. The images were made with an ink transfer monoprinting technique. The covers are printed on a handmade flax, abaca and linen paper from papermaker Mary Hark. Edition of 9 with one artist’s proof.  (Adapted from the artist’s colophon).

Small parchment book with leater girdle book bindingNest of Patience is a new acquisition from Kristin Alana Baum (Blue Oak Bindery) and Cheryl Jacobsen, calligraphy instructor at the Center for the Book. A collaboration based on a medieval girdle book, Nest of Patience is a contemporary Book of Hours contemplating the concept of patience by way of words, poetry, fortunes, and nature. The book begins with a spiritual calendar of days and proceeds with eight sections, each headed with a totem animal. Full vellum text block includes hand-stitched indigo-dyed slunk panels, hand-lettered texts, illuminations, and sewn-in found objects relating to patience. Wooden board binding, sewn on hemp cords and laced into beech boards.

Nest of Patience is currently on the New Acquisitions shelf in the Reading Room and Romeo and Juliet will be joining the shelf just after Christmas.  Stop by to enjoy these two new works from U of I faculty!

Posted in New AcquisitionsTagged artists book, cheryl jacobsen, emily martin

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