| Title | All Sorts |
| Artist / Creator | Emily Martin |
| Place of Publication | Iowa City, Iowa |
| Publication Date | 2015 |
| Contributors | Ellen Knudson |
| Process / Technique | Letterpress printing |
| Structure / Binding | Tunnel book |
| Number of Pages | 6 panels |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 9 x 9 x 1 inches closed. Extends out to 15 inches. |
| Edition Size | Edition of 35 |
| Box / Wrapper | Slipcase |
| Signed & Numbered | Signed and numbered edition |
I made All Sorts, a tunnel book, during the inaugural Coffey Residency at the University of Florida, Gainesville. The residency task was to research their collection of citrus labels then design and execute an artist's book. I started with the label size and fairly quickly also decided to use the tunnel book format because it would expand into a three-dimensional form that would suggest a fruit crate. Playing on the general concept of labeling and the title of All Sorts, I developed a text of a double alphabet of descriptive words to go inside red rings. By double alphabet, I mean that the sequence went from A to Z twice. The words could be used to describe people and were positive, negative and neutral. The rings of words got progressively smaller from front to back in the panels. I was intrigued by all the patterns in the labels and decided to use a sequence of some of the patterns derived from certain labels and also colors from other labels on the six panels of my tunnel book.
Artist Bio
Emily Martin earned a MFA degree in painting, from the University of Iowa in 1979. She started the Naughty Dog Press in 1996 to produce her own limited editions of artist's books. Martin joined the faculty of the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 1998. She has produced over 35 artists books. Martin's books are included in public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; the Tate Britain, London, England, the Library of Congress and others. She has received grants and residencies from the College Book Arts Association, the Center for Book Arts in New York City, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina among others.