Eri Funazaki (3 results)

No. 1 of a limited edition of 5. 12.6 x 22.5 cms. Text by Danny Flynn handset in Baskerville 12pt metal type and printed in letterpress. Illustrations by Eri Funazaki screen-printed with additional gold tooling. Bound by Eri Funazaki in full smooth goat skin with very thin recessed red leather onlay that depicts the image of a building site crane. Screen-printed doublures. Housed in a screen printed paper covered slipcase with blue goat skin edges. "The prose by Flynn involves a sad battle of wits and the humorous missed communications between a man and a woman. Illustration of the urban landscape with cranes, office buildings, construction sites implies this couple's life will carry on for some time but will be taken over by some new lives by the end". Funazaki reflects the text beautifully in here illustrations and binding design. Eri Funazaki studied Graphic Design at Joshibi University, Tokyo, Japan and then worked as a graphic designer. In 2000 Eri graduated from the London College of Printing with a BA in Book Arts and Crafts, and was elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2007. She has been awarded several bookbinding prizes and currently works as a designer and fine bookbinder at Shepherds Bookbinders, London. Her work is in various private collections in the UK and abroad including The British Library. Eri makes superb finely bound artists' books with her artistic partner and writer Danny Flynn. This collaboration began almost immediately after her graduation and they have since produced several works in a series involving letterpress, screen-printing, linocut-printing, and fine design bindings using various alternative book structures. Their book works have been exhibited in The Royal Academy Summer Show in 2014, and are among the collection of the Crafts Council.

No. 2 of a limited edition of 5. 94 x 100 x 22mm. Bound in full calf leather with vellum blocked in black. Rounded spine made from a dowel and the vellum extends to form the pockets, where both ends of the concertina pages are inserted and attached to the cover. The doublures have been laser-printed from a drawing by the binder. The text by Danny Flynn and illustrations by Eri Funazaki were handset and printed in letterpress from zinc plates using an Adana Eight-Five onto Zerkall paper, which have been additionally hand-tooled in gold and blind. Housed in a full light green calf clamshell box lined with printed paper. The text is an excerpt from a play involving two dogs having a heated conversation about their daily life (ie waiting to be told where to sit) written by Danny Flynn. "It has been both a new and experimental project that edits and shortens the longer play to fit the nature of typesetting for an artists' book without losing the speed and the flow of the play".

No. 3 of a limited edition of 5. 97 x 98 x 23 mms. Handset and letterpress printed text by Danny Flynn. Multi-coloured illustrations by Eri Funazaki printed in letterpress and hand tooled in gold and blind. Pages folded in a double concertina style to be pulled out in opposite directions. Bound in goat skin and letterpress printed blue suede finished with gold and carbon tooling. In a full blue morocco box resembling a giant metal type of a pointing finger. The book is about a pointing finger, which you may commonly find in old posters and signposts. The whole design was inspired by this particular character, which seems to have visual authority over common text and even illustration. The design of the book was influenced by old wooden poster type and geometrical shape of printing furniture and quoins. It ends with a question, 'Can it be trusted?' The answer is 'Well I really don't knowâ¦.'.