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Production Narrative
by J.Drucker
Produced at Columbia College by Clifton Meador, looks like offset, but maybe from paper plates or on an ABDick or some other low-level machine.
Critical Analysis
by J. Drucker
Critical Discussion
Witty and bright, like many of Meador's works, this one cuts right through the cliches of art school instruction in book and print making. The printing is out of register, the type and use of the page design are deliberately flat-footed, though in spite of himself Meador manages to make the statement on "badness" into something intriguing. "Bad artifacts seem like errors rather than evidence of something real." This statement is chunked across the pages in gothic type, large and bold, dropped out of the granulated/pixelated images printed in rather awful four color somehow.
Bad Printing
Agents
Clifton Kirkpatrick Meador
type: initiating
role:
artist
author
printer
designer
publisher
nationality:
born: United States
dates:
birth: 1957-09-26
Publication Information
edition type: editioned
publisher: Clifton Meador
place: Chicago
dates:
publication: 2006-00-00
edition size: unknown
Measurements
horizontal: 7 1/2 inches closed
vertical: 9 inches closed
Production Information
production means:
offset (local)
binding: saddle stitching (AAT)
substrate:
bookBlock: paper
media:
ink (local)
Appearance
format: pamphlet (AAT)
color: yes
Content
numbered?: unnumbered
signed?: unsigned
Colophon
Printed at the Center for Book and Paper 2006. Bad printing is no joke.