Elsi Vassdal Ellis

Eve Books
Bellingham, Washington
Elsi Vassdal Ellis teaches electronic pre-press/offset printing, graphic design history and book arts in the Department of Art at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She began with a technical background in photocomposition and moved into typographic work with letterpress, eventually focusing on issues of war and genocide so that her books are designed as ˇ°intimate witnessesˇ± or testaments to history and human behavior. She and her husband live with their dogs on 20 acres of restored wetlands overlooking Mt. Baker, where the environment provides an inspiring and restful space to work.
God No Longer Wants You
2004
Edition of 100
Letterpress printed from hand-set lead type, photopolymer plates; textblock laced through shaped wood boards covered in red pigskin.
Icarus
2003
Edition of 60
Letterpress printed from hand-set lead type, photopolymer plates and linoleum cuts; accordion binding with case cover.

The Quest for the Ethical Compass
2004
Edition of 25
Archival digital printing; handcut and assembled pop-ups; tight-back concertina binding with inset compass on cover.