EXHIBITS

Inspired Design:  The Mentoring Stamp

The Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Room will host the New England Chapter exhibition of a set book, Lance Hidy: Designing the Mentoring Stamp.  Bookbinders, book artists, calligraphers, paper decorators, and other book workers have been invited to create a work inspired by Hidy’s book. The exhibition will be on display in the autumn of 2008 at Smith College.  This non-juried show, open to members of the New England Chapter, will offer three awards for entries selected by Lance Hidy, Michael Russem (designer and publisher of the book), and Martin Antonetti (curator of rare books at Smith College).  Additionally, plans are in the works for producing a full color exhibition catalogue and for one or more gallery talks and/or receptions.

Lance Hidy, a well-known artist and typographer, created a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service in 2001.  Lance Hidy: Designing the Mentoring Stamp is the story of that process, along with Hidy’s observations about design, photography, color, aesthetics, and his own typeface, Penumbra. The book, designed and published in 2007 by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press, is printed in four sections (a total of 48 pages) on Mohawk Superfine (80 lb) paper and includes numerous color illustrations of Hidy’s work.  Those not familiar with the work of Lance Hidy can see the mentoring stamp at
www.usps.com/news/2001/philatelic/sr02_003.htm,
or his posters at his own site: www.lancehidy.com

FINISHED ENTRIES DUE MARCH 31, 2008.

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