Tabloid into tiny book

When Steve Woodall of Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts came to visit Camberwell book arts, not only did he give us a fascinating talk but he also proposed revisiting Dieter Roth's project to make books out of the Daily Mirror newspaper. So we gathered ourselves, some copies of the paper, and sundry supplies - and got to work.

Fortunately we could use the automated guillotine downstairs in the letterpress department to cut the newspapers into different sized squares -

Here it is, one issue of the tabloid -

At the end of the session we quite a few little books either finished or in progress - perfectly aligned, clamped, spines glued and backed with scrim -

Coincidence and the cutter produced some interesting juxtapositions -