Last night Barbara took us to meet Ute Ritschel, a fascinating woman, just back from China, who essentially develops “forest and garden” site specific installation projects with artists from around the world. These are serious, thoughtful, extremely well organized exhibitions. Each exhibition has a thematic focus, such as Native-Invasive, where artists, forest managers and scientists [...]

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Today we set all of the type for the book. Wolfgang did the sentences and we did the zeros and ones. They are going to print half of one side one color each day which should mean it will be all printed by Friday. They have a great gizmo that makes a score. I looks [...]

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We are just back from Berlin. It was a long drive, but Barbara pointed out highlights along the way helping us catch up on our German history. First we met Barbara’s 6′7″ son Hano (sp?). I don’t think I know anyone else that tall, but it was his soft probably tenor voice that [...]

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Last night we made a presentation at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach. The Klingspor brothers operated a type foundry and collected a lot of printing related stuff. They donated it all, including some rare typeface patents, to a group of collectors who continued to collect, bought a building and tried to fix it up. But [...]

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Yesterday we went to the Frankfurt Book Fair. It was nothing like I imagined. First of all there were 7300 exhibitors in a complex of buildings that sort of looked like an airline terminal complete with moving walkways between buildings. We went directly to the artists’ book section and spent the day there. Most of [...]

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