Power Trip
By Typography and the Book Arts Class at Scripps College
Assisted by Prof. Kitty Maryatt
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2015. Edition of 102.

6.75 x 8"; 10 sections sewn into accordion folds with metallic thread. Centaur and Arrighi type. Letterpress printed on four Vandercook presses. Linoleum and Buttercut images. Bound in aluminum covers. Numbered.

Introduction, "The Pitch": "Everyone has love/hate experiences with automobiles, especially in sprawling Los Angeles. Since the students who created this edition are from many parts of the world, they decided to share their perspectives on the advantages and disadvantages of owning, driving, crashing, modifying, and caring for cars, both old and brand new. They drew upon the materiality and physicality of vehicles for inspiration."

Colophon, "Closing": "In our Goudy Workshop on papermaking for this semester, we had used 45 mil Buttercut sandblasting rubber for making watermarks. We decided to try it out for imagery as an alternative to our usual linoleum. The images cut from Buttercut were glued onto MDF bases. To seal the material, it was brushed with acrylic gel medium. Some images were also carved with linoleum cutting tools. Metallic inks were employed for the colors of the images.

"Since automobiles are mostly made of metal, luscious metallic colors in the extensive Stardream line were chosen for the paper. The .040 inch aluminum covers were cut by Industrial Metal Supply and decoratively finished by Bud's Metal Polishing. The students softened the edges with a delicate final sanding."
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