A sketchbook/daybook is an extension of your creative process – a place where you collect ideas, notes, sketches and diagrams. Every artist keeps a different type or kind of journal, so it stands to reason that you would have a range of binding methods at hand that are simple, elegant, and effective, reflecting the type of book you are interested in creating.

Over the course of this eight hour class, students will learn three different binding methods, ranging from “easy” to “advanced”. Additional topics covered in class will include text paper considerations, cover stock, and pattern design for sewing.

Materials to Bring:

• Bone Folder
• X-Acto Knife
• Pencil
• Bookbinding awl
• A pair of scissors
• Metal ruler
• right angle triangle, small to medium size is best
• glue stick or double stick tape
• materials for mark making or decorating the covers of your journal(s)
• the above listed items are considered “bookbinding basics”; if you have other, additional tools that you would like to bring, feel free to do so

Workshop Fee: $170

Date & Time: Saturday, June 6, 2015 | 10:00am-6:00pm

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 | Jennie Hinchcliff

As a “near-native” of San Francisco, Jennie Hinchcliff has been teaching classes in bookbinding and related arts since 2001. Her bookworks can be seen in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Special Collection, the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, and the Franklin Furnace Archive (among others); she has shown work at the San Francisco Center for the Book, Pyramid Atlantic, the New York Art Book Fair and the Tokyo Art Book Fair. Jennie’s work often incorporates one-of-a-kind elements such as found typography or handwritten correspondence, harkening back to the spirit of Dada artists and writers.

Jennie's personal work can be seen in the books "1000 Artist Journal Pages" (Quarry Books, 2008), "The Creative Entrepreneur" (Quarry Books, 2009), and most recently “500 Handmade Books: Volume 2” (Lark Books, 2013). She is a co-author of "Good Mail Day: A Primer for Eye-Popping Post", which explores mail art and correspondence in its' many styles and formats. Her blog "Every Day Should Be A Red Letter Day" promotes the idea that letter writing can be done anytime, anyplace, anywhere by anybody.

Blog: www.redletterdayzine.wordpress.com

twitter: @redletterzine 

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