Special Artist Edition (Book + print), The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow 2022 Douglas Stockdale I am very honored today that the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh is acquiring one of the Special Artist Editions of my artist book The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. This will join my... Continue Reading →
Pre-press: Hard proof color check
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow - proof check 2022 copyright Douglas Stockdale – It gets pretty exciting during the publication of a new book to receive the first set of hard proofs from a printer at the later stages of the pre-press activities. It is also when the reality of what will soon be... Continue Reading →
Meanings of Liu Guan Lue Yin
My artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, is one step closer to be published and in the midst of the pre-press activities for the center section of the book. Interestingly, while in the mode of making some very detailed commercial printing decisions, such as do we want to use a PMS color... Continue Reading →
New book workshop by SEC4P & already sold out – in 4 hours
Wow. I knew that Southeast Center of Photography (SEC4P) was about to announce our next book development workshop together and that they wanted to post this on their social media first before I started my social media PR. I just did not expect that it would be sold-out in less than fours hours from the... Continue Reading →
Medium Photo 2022 Festival – postscript
The Lafayette Hotel & Medium Photo event copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale At the beginning of this month, I, along with a ton of others, had an opportunity to actually meet in person, catch up on stuff we have been doing during the pandemic, see actual artwork, networking and of course maybe a little bit of art/photo... Continue Reading →
Mental Health Awareness Month
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow copyright 2006 Douglas Stockdale – This is Mental Health Awareness Month and good time for a shout-out that if you are feeling out of emotional sorts, then this could be a sign that there might be something you need to find out more about. The four basic mental health awareness concerns... Continue Reading →
Litho Printer’s mock-up Surprise
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (Artist book mock-up) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – When working with a commercial printer on a book or really any publication, requesting a mock-up that reflects your quote, printing paper and book design intentions is pretty common. I can also say it might be one of the more uninteresting aspects of... Continue Reading →
Double gate-fold feedback
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (book-dummy) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – I like to think I follow my own advice. One of the many aspects of creating a physical book-dummy is to be able to have show-n-tell moments with other artists, photographers, friends, curators, bookstores and the like. At the start of every one of my... Continue Reading →
Modifying a piercing cradle for pamphlet stitching
For the artist book I now envision (book pre-visualization!), I want to bind it with a very simple, but elegant pamphlet stitch. Assembled and bound it should look like what I posted in my last article. And there are a numerous ways to complete a pamphlet stitch and a relatively simple production fixture, called a... Continue Reading →
New Zoom PhotoBook Workshop – Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Book-dummy, Gardening for Ordnance copyright Douglas Stockdale This four-day Zoom workshop with Colorado Photographic Arts Center is an opportunity for artists and photographers who are currently working on or planning to start a project that will result in a book publication. Whether you plan to make book submissions to a publisher or self-publish your artist... Continue Reading →