We invited several guests to discuss the departing year. 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things. This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned! A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark Cockram's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 07:10 – Summing up the results of this bookish year: workshops, projects, etc. 10:41 – Richard's patent of pop-up display apparatus and discussion of how books should be displayed 15:31 – Importance of proper presentation of your work, marketing in bookbinding in comparison with other arts 19:23 – Is the concept of a book more than an intellectual process, or it's "just a pretty thing"? 21:29 – Richard's plans for the next year and the impact of the pandemic on work; the triple slipcase for the first uncensored edition of Decameron made by Richard 25:39 – Prudishness and censorship: from the first editions of books to YouTube 28:37 – Kate's big project of this past year: the first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's covered in diamonds 30:12 – Mark's plans for the next year incl. plans to produce a book dedicated to his censored works 34:39 – Teaching plans 37:27 – Opportunities to study bookbinding in different countries, the importance of affordable education 40:05 – The importance of learning bookbinding in person, next to a teacher 42:37 – Richard's teaching work, critique workshops 47:14 – The largest project in terms of size done by Mark: two books around 60-80 kilos each 52:41 – Richards's largest work: North American Hand Papermaking, 1976 – when a book becomes a walk-in sculpture 59:49 – Richard's collection of American decorated publishers' bindings