"Mixing with the Best" - great reference material!
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:25 am
I just received in the mail yesterday the casting information CD that has been mentioned in a couple of posts recently. I highly recommend it.
The CD is called, "Mixing with the Best - Investigation and Comparison of Contemporary Working Methods and Mould Making Materials For Use in the Kiln Forming of Glass" from the Royal College of Art by Angela Thwaites. The CD is well organized, very detailed, great photographs of work and methods, and includes a very complete bibliography. The CD format can hold so much information and cross references between sections are excellent - very readable.
It is a survey of current practices around the world (UK, Czech, US, Australia). Over 60 working artists answered detailed questionaires about their methods and all the recipes were then reproduced at the school's studio and results empirically measured. The authors also visited 20 studios throughout Europe and have site reports, interviews and lots of photographs on each one.
Julia at Whitehouse Books has CD available. Use the link above or email her, as I did, at: julia@whitehouse-books.com. She always responds very quickly.
I am headed to the basement to try out some new recipes!
Happy casting,
Jane
The CD is called, "Mixing with the Best - Investigation and Comparison of Contemporary Working Methods and Mould Making Materials For Use in the Kiln Forming of Glass" from the Royal College of Art by Angela Thwaites. The CD is well organized, very detailed, great photographs of work and methods, and includes a very complete bibliography. The CD format can hold so much information and cross references between sections are excellent - very readable.
It is a survey of current practices around the world (UK, Czech, US, Australia). Over 60 working artists answered detailed questionaires about their methods and all the recipes were then reproduced at the school's studio and results empirically measured. The authors also visited 20 studios throughout Europe and have site reports, interviews and lots of photographs on each one.
Julia at Whitehouse Books has CD available. Use the link above or email her, as I did, at: julia@whitehouse-books.com. She always responds very quickly.
I am headed to the basement to try out some new recipes!
Happy casting,
Jane