12th International Book Fair

I really enjoyed looking at all of the beautiful things on display at the book fair; I think that the older I get, the less I take the creativity of others for granted. A selection of things I liked:


Anne Rook has tapped into a project I had in mind with her exploration of the apple in terms of its 'brand'.
Incredibly, there are over a thousand varieties of apple in the UK, but I suspect that most people can only name a few, owing to the select few available. I'm sure a fellow vis com student based an FMP around this; I will try and dig out the old exhibition catalogues... Anyway, I like the flat images Rook has produced, but the accompanying animation doesn't inspire me at all.


This poster from David Birchall (Black and White Cat Press) is rather groovy, and has now replaced Johnny Depp's portrait of Patti Smith on the wall above my keyboard.


Letter Press Printed Cards are keeping the Gutenberg tradition alive. If you must engage in the exchanging of greetings cards, then at least don't go to Clintons.


New Arcadian Press aims to to 'generate a continuous programme of artistic, scholarly and poetic research into cultural landscape'. The resulting journals are lovely items.