CommonSense - A group sourced publication 2016

We are launching a limited edition magazine in July 2016, the content will be group sourced and uses the notion of common sense as inspirational jumping off point.

Seen on a plane!

Making CommonSense 3

Making CommonSense 2

Making CommonSense 1

Book Launch Invite

We will be launching the CommonSense book as part of our Holmfirth Art Week fringe exhibition which will run for a month from the 2nd July... opening preview is 2nd Saturday 3pm - 8pm

We've renovated a book press

I found this at Tate Britain - Kate Woodman

The submissions so far

This beautiful stack of paper constitues one half of our CommonSense book project - we hope to start binding this soon to be ready for the 2nd July launch.

Get a bone folder!

Folding is made easy with a bone folder!

Lucy's Night of the Hunter mash-up arrives... "let me tell you the story..."

Ali's delicate hand printed, flying folded pages are delivered

Bob's wry victorian psychedelia is delivered

Abi's bold and mysterious illustrations are delivered

Kate's intricate and beautifully created pages are delivered

Dave's (Tebbs and Lynch featuring) colouring in pages are delivered

John's beautifully observed photographs are delivered

We're getting wonderful parcels

Pages are starting to come in - Simpo

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling makes a mention of Common Sense in the poem 'School Song'

Book Cover

found this a couple of days ago...

Binding research

As much pressure as possible should be put on the straight-edge; and as little as is absolutely necessary on the knife

We're researching methods of binding for the CommonSense magazine / book. Perfect binding using glue seems to be the way forward, but it might...

Quotes

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense