Best Professional/Non-professional Bindings
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FIRST PRIZE (The Aiden Portnall Award)
Ons Tientse
by Erik van der Kam
Bound by Geert Van Daal, Dodwaard, Netherlands
Professional
Full blue goatskin, inlaid coins and onlaid bank notes; blind and gold tooling; coins and bank notes also on doublures, gilt head. Book typeset and printed on parchment by Geert Van Daal – blue paper endleaves, hand sewn endbands; full blue goatskin; inlaid and onlaid notes and coins, leather joints.
SECOND PRIZE (jointly awarded)
BBB
Written and bound byCristina Balbiano D’Aramengo, Milan, Italy
Professional
Crown book with bearing structure made from one piece of Brown Kraft paper folded to hold the kraft paper pages and thin boards.
SECOND PRIZE (jointly awarded)
What It’s Like Here
by Jim Moore
Bound by CB Sherlock and Regula Russelle, USA
Professional
The binding combines a contemporary drop-spine structure with an ancient Japanese multi-section technique, sewn with four needles. The glue-less spine of the text block preserves the integrity of the pages and art.
Both book and slipcase are covered with Iris cloth and Bugra paper. The delicate Kaji paper was attached to the boards with drymount tissue. Text printed from polymer plates on a Vandercook Press #4. Paper – mould made Johannot and Japanese Kaji, hand washed with sumi ink. The snow was printed with oil-based ink to act as a resist for the wash.
