The Manhattan Fine Press Fair is Saturday, April 5th, one day only, from 9am to 5pm at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, 869 Lexington Avenue, NYC.

The Oxford Provincial Booksellers Fair International Fine Press Book Fair is coming up May 3 – May 4, 2025. Hours: Saturday, May 3, 12-5 & Sunday, May 4, 11-4 at Oxford University, Examination School, 75-81 High Street, Oxford U.K.
See you there!…

The Golden Hair of Medusa – A Contemporary Illumination
Mindy Belloff, Intima Press, NY, Notes from the Studio March 11, 2025

I am happy to report the printing is now complete. I handed off the folios for sewing and binding yesterday afternoon. The leather finally arrived, after the first two batches were re-done due to problems with the dyes and the company’s drum. The spine pieces will be cut and …

The Golden Hair of Medusa
A Contemporary Illumination
Mindy Belloff, Intima Press, NY

All is moving ahead in the studio, with rollers newly recovered, and detailed hand painting on the (self) portrait of Medusa continuing. After much delay, the silver grey and dark grey papers finally arrived at the studio in mid-December, despite the postal strike in Canada. Printing is ongoing with about 50 press set-ups and three page designs …

The Golden Hair of Medusa
A Contemporary Illumination
Mindy Belloff, Intima Press, NY

I hope you have all been enjoying the slower Summer pace. For me, summer months are when I am able to ramp up and work even longer hours, day and night. I am very pleased with the progress of the new edition. Here are a few quick updates from the studio…

Black Folios

Most of the …

Notes from the Studio – February 20, 2024
The Golden Hair of Medusa
Some musings on Typography and Inspiration

Typography

While composing each page comes intuitively, I work on typographical designs for hours and hours over weeks and months on each part of a text or calligram, going back to different passages, and making adjustments to querning, spacing, and type design.

For more insight into Athena’s personality, I am …

Amazing performances at the Grammy Awards this past weekend, February 4, 2024, from singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, and Tracy Chapman, whose poetic lyrics provide commentary in the Hester . Emma . Sonia edition, with subtitle, Joni . Annie . Tracy, 2021.

Notes from the Studio
The Golden Hair of Medusa

I thought would might be interested in learning more about an edition in progress and want to share these notes with you. This is from January 1, 2024.

Hello and Happy 2024. This is the first of occasional updates on The Golden Hair of Medusa, a companion book to A Golden Thread: The Minotaur. Making a book about the myth of …

Many thanks to Richard Kopley for his review, “Hawthorne at the Peabody Essex Museum,” just published in Volume 46 of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Kopley, author of several books and an expert on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, viewed the exhibition The Creative Legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Phillips Collection, at PEM (September 28, 2019 – March 2020).

He writes, “Belloff’s book is exquisite. Its creation must have been …