Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop Keepsake

2015

Dartmouth Book Arts Workshop

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In 2015 the Dartmouth College Book Arts programme celebrated its 25th Anniversary. As a keepsake for this occasion, Book Arts Workshop students printed cards that contained text and images that were enclosed in a cleverly constructed paper folder. One is a poem by Dr Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991). He graduated from Dartmouth in 1925. The other is a wintery tree image with the logo of Dartmouth College (1769). While Dartmouth’s motto is Vox clamantis in deserto (‘the voice of one crying out in the wilderness’; Isaiah 40:3), it could easily adopt the one printed: ‘Shoot High Shoot Far…’