Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

sixpennybook:

Do you feel a gnawing guilt over all the spines you’ve cracked, all the pages you’ve dog-eared? Oh, the books that have suffered for your love!

Now you can assuage your conscience with the Adopt-A-Book program from the Smithsonian Libraries. Through the program, you can choose a damaged or deteriorating book and provide for its conservation. Don’t you want to preserve that old book smell for the ages?

(Source: codingandtea, via thenoodlebooty)

sosuperawesome:

Shapes of Conscious

With this sketchbook, I’ve been challenging my creativity by starting first with a simple shape, drawn without the end goal in mind. Once the shape is drawn, I go about filling it with a character that develops a story of its own. The idea here is to get out of my own way, to let the drawing develop itself without forcing it into a desired narrative or purpose.

David Habben, on Tumblr

unknowneditors:

Intricate Book Carvings by Nino Orlandi!

myidealhome:

• DIY inspiration: invisible bookcase (via How to Decorate with Books)

nevver:

What we’re reading

archiemcphee:

This awesome device is a fully-functional Typewriter Arm Guard with Bluetooth and Touchpad created by Thomas Willeford of Brute Force Studios. The keyboard is mounted on an intricately tooled Steampunkish leather and brass arm guard.

Watch a video demonstration here. Then head over to Etsy to view more images and, if you’ve got $1200 to spare, perhaps even order one for yourself.

[via Technabob]

showslow:

Alicia Martin’s Amazing Book Sculptures

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via larmoyante)

mrmojorisinn:

I could pee on this.