Attention bookworms, design nerds, type fiends, and library denizens enamored of fine leather-bound tomes - the Alcuin Society, Canada's foremost bibliophilic association, turns fifty this year! Since 1965, the Alcuin has been producing Amphora, a qu
Attention bookworms, design nerds, type fiends, and library denizens enamored of fine leather-bound tomes - the Alcuin Society, Canada's foremost bibliophilic association, turns fifty this year! Since 1965, the Alcuin has been producing Amphora, a quarterly journal of books and book arts, and issuing awards for book design achievement. Learn more about their history, and their namesake, Alcuin of York,
here.
Concerned that you might suffer from bibliophilia? Breathe deeply (inhaling that sweet book smell) and confirm your suspicions by joining hundreds of fellow book-lovers at the Alcuin's annual Wayzgoose, a free celebration of printing arts. Paper marblers, letterpress printers, bookbinders, calligraphers, illustrators and private presses, abandoning their usual reticence, will be demonstrating techniques and displaying examples of their craft to the public. This year's event includes local superstar exhibitors like
Greenboathouse Press, illustrator Charles Van Sandwyk, and
Barbarian Press, among many more.
The 2015 Wayzgoose happens at the Central Branch (Alice McKay Room) of the Vancouver Public Library from 10-4 on Saturday, October 31st. And while it won't relieve your bibliophilic symptoms (in fact, they may be aggravated by the sheer preponderance of printed matter), you will certainly find your community of paper-oriented Vancouverites.
More details
here.
To stimulate that bibliophilic optic nerve, Vancouver is Awesome requested The Paper Hound to pick their top twenty B.C. book designs. Here they are: