I.T.U. Books @ Motto Berlin. 18.01.2012
Posted in Events, Motto Berlin store on January 16th, 2012 by admin
I.T.U. – International Typographical Union
Wednesday Jan 18th
start 7pm
Paper Rehabilitation Project, Series 1
Detroit Blank Book
The blank books in this first series of the Paper Rehabilitation Project are made of stock found at a warehouse of excess, rejected and damaged paper. Each book contains four different sheets and three different stocks for the covers – blue and gray with a linen finish, and a plum, with a sort of faux -leather finish. They were bound by Janutol Printing
on Detroit’s East side.
The paper in these books was probably originally purchased by printers for their clients, but for one reason or another it was not used as intended. It ended up on the scrap market at a high-volume paper recycler, where there was a small chance it would be bought by another printer, or more likely it would be shredded and sold (by weight) to a paper mill where it would become the recycled content in a new sheet of paper.
It took us a long time to learn of the existence of this paper. Printers, paper distributors, and even many paper recyclers are reluctant to speak of this kind of surplus paper, perhaps because it threatens the commodity status of ‘clean’ paper. We had the feeling that by having it bound into a book we were causing a minor disruption in the circulation of paper. We captured these sheets at this particular moment in time, while they were available, and made 600 books that we will never again be able to reproduce.
I.T.U. – International Typographical Union
Danielle Aubert, Maia Asshaq, Lana Cavar
http://internationaltypographicalunion.org/
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