Box Making Core :: Clamshell Box

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June 30th, 2018 9:30 AM

  • Instructor: Andrew Rottner
  • Workshop Type: Binding
  • Workshop Status: Closed
  • Workshop Start: June 30th, 2018 9:30 AM
  • Workshop End: July 1st, 2018 5:30 PM
  • Sessions: 1

Protect delicate books or suites of prints in elegant and durable full-cloth covered clamshell presentation boxes. On Day 1, working from a provided template, students will be guided through the process of constructing custom clamshell boxes for books, suites of prints and other media. On Day 2, Students will themselves design and construct a box for a small book, suite of prints, or object of their choosing. Students will be invited but not required to bring their own materials to work with on their individual projects. All skills learned in Day 1 will now have to be applied by the student to their individual project including spec'ing and cutting boards, scaling & design.  

On Day 1: students will learn critical aspects of measuring & scaling, board cutting, tray construction, cover making, casing in, and options for labels and inlays. Also addressed will be various alterations and enhancements of the clam-shell structure.

On Day 2 students will readdress all skills covered on Day 1, but will have to apply those skills directly to a custom project of their own choosing.  


Materials to Bring: Optional and available at SFCB for student use during workshop: utility knife, glue brush, bone folder, straight edge, scissors.

Workshop Fee (includes $30 materials fee): $370.00

Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, June 30 & July 1, 2018 :: 9:30am-5:30pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 3 DAYS PRIOR TO THE START DATE OF THIS WORKSHOP.


About the Instructor | Andy Rottner

Andy Rottner is an artist, bookbinder, and the co-founder of Super Classy Publishing. In addition to providing commercial bookbinding and box-making services to artists and institutions; Super Classy publishes artist-books, printed and bound-by hand in Vallejo California. Super Classy's ongoing Sixty-Nine Thirty-Two Artist Book Series features, painting, drawing, poetry, printmaking, collage, fine-art photography and short fiction by a wide range of artists. Andy has a BFA from Wittenberg University & an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.


Past Student Reviews:

 “The instructor explained things in an understandable and easy to digest manner, provided tips to keep in mind, was able and available to help with anything that students did not feel 100% sure about.”

“Andy gave us a very in depth day of instruction on the box and we made a dummy from this. The second day was a challenge to make a box for a specific object and to see how we learned from day 1. Thought the second day would be hard but turned out to be a wonderful experience with Andy just nearby to guide us along and we all got done in record time.”

“A fun instructor to work with making our time worth being there.”

375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
United States