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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Alicia Martín - Biografías, 2012
Thomas Ehgartner - Meaning Minus Truth Conditions (2006) - 8,000 books
(Source: likeafieldmouse)
In a time of economic upheaval, one of Natural Curiosities statement pieces reflects on this simple expression of “cooking the books”. Each book has been worn in its pages, dipped in an aging elixir, and left to cook in the Los Angeles sunshine.
A Giant Labyrinth Constructed from 250,000 Books at Southbank Centre via thisiscolossal
(Based on a fingerprint belonging to writer Jorge Luis Borges was built using 250,000 remaindered, used and new books)
(S)Edition Installation by Melissa Jay Craig
Limited bookwork edition of 99 copies.
“Some people have uneasy, squeamish thoughts when they look at fungus: it’s something surreptitious, uncontrollable; it lives hidden underground in familiar locales, ready to spring to life unexpectedly, and it often manifests itself as part of the demise of another organism. Fungus is an agent of change. I’m fascinated with its myriad forms, and I love to go in search of it.”
(Source: melissajaycraig.com)