Category Archives: Digital and Analog

Test Pattern Library

By Naomi Bardoff | Published: July 29, 2011

For those of you youngsters in our readership who may, like myself, not have seen a test pattern in its natural environment, a test pattern or test card is what was broadcast on television when no program was being shown, and could be used to calibrate the colors on your TV set. For a variety [...]

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Naomi Bardoff
Naomi Bardoff
In 2010 Naomi Bardoff graduated from Bard College, where she majored in fine arts and studied watercolor, ink drawing, and book-making. She has also taken classes at the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Naomi has been working on her illustration portfolio, working in an office, and volunteering and taking classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book. In addition to the SFCB blog, she blogs on her art blog, naomese - naomi bardoff's art blog; her tumblr, curiosities & clockwork (check out the book art tag on her tumblr to see more of her favorite book arts); and pins to her Pinterest boards. Her own book work can be found on her website.

Contained Herein by Meg Kennedy

By Naomi Bardoff | Published: April 26, 2011

This altered book by Meg Kennedy, found on the New York Center for Book Arts artist website, is altered into a mini curio cabinet displaying forms of media, with a little stone tablet, scroll, accordion book / pamphlet, Japanese-bound book, chalkboard, codex, and CD drive inserted into the open text block. The book is transformed [...]

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Naomi Bardoff
Naomi Bardoff
In 2010 Naomi Bardoff graduated from Bard College, where she majored in fine arts and studied watercolor, ink drawing, and book-making. She has also taken classes at the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Naomi has been working on her illustration portfolio, working in an office, and volunteering and taking classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book. In addition to the SFCB blog, she blogs on her art blog, naomese - naomi bardoff's art blog; her tumblr, curiosities & clockwork (check out the book art tag on her tumblr to see more of her favorite book arts); and pins to her Pinterest boards. Her own book work can be found on her website.

Kyle Bean’s “The Future of Books”

By Naomi Bardoff | Published: April 20, 2011

Kyle Bean’s website describes this project as “a book/laptop hybrid model to demonstrate how we are sourcing information.”For me, it speaks not just to the sources of our information, but the tactile and physical presence of it. The weight and type of paper in a book gives it a unique texture and color; the glue [...]

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Naomi Bardoff
Naomi Bardoff
In 2010 Naomi Bardoff graduated from Bard College, where she majored in fine arts and studied watercolor, ink drawing, and book-making. She has also taken classes at the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Naomi has been working on her illustration portfolio, working in an office, and volunteering and taking classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book. In addition to the SFCB blog, she blogs on her art blog, naomese - naomi bardoff's art blog; her tumblr, curiosities & clockwork (check out the book art tag on her tumblr to see more of her favorite book arts); and pins to her Pinterest boards. Her own book work can be found on her website.