Everyone seems to know Nicholas Gottlund, although I have never met him before. I hear his parents own a printing press and he lives in the middle of nowhere? For a while I for some reason assumed Nicholas Gottlund was a 17-year-old sophisto who happened to know everyone and was well-informed about everything through the net and still went to high school, (secret cool). But of course, he is not 17 but 27, and put out our friends' books: Coley Brown's Jam Jelly Honey Wild Rice and Andrew Laumann's New Messages. I admire his printmaking skills, immaculate craftsmanship, and drive to create and distribute self-published artists' books and zines. Nicholas Gottlund is a machine.
Day Book is a 28-page, 5.5-by-8.5-inch, saddle-stitched, hand-bound artist book printed in an edition of 50, but it is sold out now. This the AP edition of five that has a silk-screened cloth book cover. Here are some photos to cream over...
What is this ceramic, acorn treasure of a jar? What do you put in there?
Here is what looks like Nicholas's bed, where a large book in a plastic bag is tucked under a a bed sheet. What is that? What are you reading?
Great tone with low contrast black-and-white photos on gray stock.
These are a gathering of photos from the last five years spent in isolation.
Wild Prayer is a 16-page, tabloid-size black-and-white offset publication on newsprint. This one is has a larger edition, like 1,000.
It's giant, see?
Wild Prayer is based off his white series on visual distortion, acceleration, and the loss of consciousness.
Delicacy in detail, magnified.
A silhouette of tangled limbs.
Next on Gottlund's agenda is an all-letterpress book collaboration with Peter Sutherland printed from photo-engraved copper plates. Primitive shit. Anyways, you can get these zines through Gottlund Verlag, his small publishing house, or see some other things hes made on his website.
MAGGIE LEE
Beautiful. Probably the best zine you have featured. It's like a more meditative Hamburger Eyes. Very nice!
Posted by: MAX | 05/06/2009 at 20:01
i always want to make zines but when i see shit this good i know not to even bother
Posted by: fuck art lets fuck | 05/06/2009 at 20:01
Im into it. Textured and old. Not really a bathroom read however. More like something to leave on the coffee table when a date is over.
Posted by: U.R.L | 05/06/2009 at 20:02
IS that a bowl next to the desert?
Posted by: camelfinger | 05/06/2009 at 20:04
been noticing a lot of negative space fonts on photos lately and i love it. so clean and simple!
Posted by: ashley | 05/06/2009 at 20:13
yes . it's a bowl
no. it's not a desert
Posted by: buttahteef | 05/06/2009 at 20:34
If you like the cover of DAY BOOK you can get a similar effect by using a blender pen. Look it up. They're pretty neat-o.
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