A new hand-made Book from Evelin Kasikov, 'Printed Matter: Type' explores four themes at the crossroads of Type and Embriodery: Type and Colour; Typographic colour; Estonian traditional type; and Type as image.  Committed to a practice of hand-crafted exploratory works in book form since 2006, London-based Evelin Kasikov has a number of one-off publications to date which rigorously tease out contemporary technologies -especially from the advertising field- including a beautiful study of CMYK.


Printed Matter: Type
210x210 mm | 92 pages | Hand embroidery on paper | French folds | Deckle edge


“But the screen is nothing like a piece of paper”
Fred Smeijers, Counterpunch: London Hyphen Press 1996
“But the screen is nothing like a piece of paper”
Fred Smeijers, Counterpunch: London Hyphen Press 1996
Printed Matter: Type (quotation: Fred Smeijers, 1996)
“But the screen is nothing like a piece of paper”
Fred Smeijers, Counterpunch: London Hyphen Press 1996


The somewhat obsessive technique of embrioded cross-stitch must offer a meditative pace of production for Kasikov, with some insane visual outcomes which are hypnotic in the least.  The precise and strict guidelines of the technique are exactly what gives the work such rigour though, because of course it is only possible to define the innovative and inventive outcomes relative to a resilient (and quite often conservative) point of departure -any well-funded academy will know this, and any radical Academy will abhor it.

The range of Kasikov's Book's have explored: Process, Element, Type (pictured in this article), Image, all are well worth checking out if you are interested in self-publication, process-work, and exquisite craft.

Her website is here.