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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• so strange that day
• suspended for life
• dreams will help us be friends
• magic bearJon Carling, on Tumblr
lnop:
Mark Manders’s sculptures can be read as poems that have been freed from the language and evoke a mysterious world of ghostly afterimages and waking dreams.
That building is vomiting books! Glorious, glorious books!
Cloud Book Study by Heidi Neilson consists of a book that when flipped through at high speed, reveals a time-lapse film of clouds moving across the pages. The accompanying video shows the movement of the clouds across the sky in a way you couldn’t achieve by thumbing the book on your own.
Watch:
(I’ve posted the video of this before but I very much enjoy the gif too!)
(via poteau)
Writer’s Block by Jonathan Callan
“Altered book with original 1888 cover. Mixed-media on corrugated cardboard with etched mirror and zinc, sewing machine parts, glass jars, and other found objects. Lyrical snippets of text “liberated” from the sermonizing tales of the original book.”
(By Erika Kuhn)