Fuck Yeah, Book Arts! |
A blog for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts! Posts here will feature artist's books, illustration, book binding, typography, sketch-booking, scrap-booking, print-making, paper making, altered books, how to guides, zines, paper engineering and more! Feel free to submit your own work, thoughts around the subject, or even just inspiration new and old.
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Notes"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship."Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via excessivebookshelf)
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Alchemy Bookends | Design*Sponge
The whole time I was looking at this I was just thinking how Pottery it seemed, and if the stones were red perhaps, it would do nicely as the Philosophers Stone. Not that there were piles of them.. but you get my thinking.
A pretty sweet DIY all the same.
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Notesa flipbook i made
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NotesFrom the Archives
An early version of Facebook? Check out this interesting and helpful employee directory from the 1970s!
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NotesSomething long forgotten.
A tiny book, bound with love on a sunny summer afternoon three years ago. Sent back and fourth from California to Rhode Island, between my ex-boyfriend and I.
I don’t know what made me think of it today.
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NotesWhat you’ll need:
·A 50 cm x 100 cm styrofoam board
·2 cardboards (here’s where you’ll have to pick the color)
·Plastic (like the one you used to cover your school books with)
·Paint
·Permanent markers (OPTIONAL)
·A KnifeInstructions:
·Gif 1: Cut your styrofoam, if you have to. You can also buy two 50 cm x 50 cm styrofoams boards.
·Gif 2: In photoshop (or pixlr, or paint for all I care) create a new blank image that measures the same as you board and create your design.
·Gif 3: Print your poetry at your local Office Depot or something and paste it over your board.
·Gif 4: Cut the board with a hot knife.
·Gif 5: Paint the borders.
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Notes"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands."Daphne du Maurier (via larmoyante)
(Source: larmoyante)
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NotesAbout Pearl by Robbin Ami Silverberg
I created a series of unique handmade papers for the book that would contain a text I wrote about my grandmother’s skin and thoughts on aging. Each book in this series holds the identical text; each is unique because of its variety of skin-like papers, that suggest skin’s wondrous wrinkled surface.
