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iBB Podcast #8.2 – Mark Cockram. Workshop Tour and Bindings’ Show & Tell

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Our guest is Mark Cockram, a book artist, teacher, and bookbinder from London, UK. Mark is the owner of the Studio 5 Book Arts. This time Mark takes us for a tour of his workshop and shows some of his bindings.

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00:00​ – Beginning of Part 2
00:27​ – Adhesives – a hot topic!
01:44​ – On collaborations with students
05:30​ – Education, students, and empowerment
09:30​ – A dyslexic bookbinder
11:30​ – Beginning of the workshop tour. Why Studio 5?
12:07​ – Equipment and the general layout
13:00​ – Bookbinding ploughs, etc.
16:48​ – Show and tell – Old and new bindings
17:56​ – On the size of the studio
19:28​ – The oldest tool in the workshop
21:13​ – Finding a place for a board shear in a small studio
22:46​ – Accumulating stuff for 17 years
24:03​ – Buried Books project
28:58​ – When damaged book loses its function (if ever)?
30:37​ – What’s a book?
32:29​ – Ceramics and bookbinding
37:56​ – Smaller books and strange shapes
39:52​ – Hommage to Joseph Cornell
46:08​ – Kinetic sculptures and bookbinding
47:40​ – Box as an extension of the binding
54:37​ – Book worms

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