Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

artsquare:

Since its creation, the Pantone color chart has been the official dictionary of color. Artists, designers, painters and decorators have used Pantone to precisely pair colors to create a desired visual aesthetic. Artist Pierre David has redesigned the Pantone with a different shade of coloring; the varied beauty of Human skin tones. David´s work was shown in Brazil, showcasing the range of beautiful colors of the people of the proud South American nation.

lustik:

Alba Amicorum - Sheryl Oppenheim

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Handmade Little Books (Collection of Four) by Natalie Stopka

Each of these four blank books is hand bound with a linen cover and hand stitched silk headbands. Protectively case bound with a rounded spine, they are the perfect size to carry on your travels in a pocket or purse as a journal or sketchbook.

Each part of these books has been naturally dyed with responsibly sourced or foraged plant materials. The pages are made from whole sheets with no paper waste and show the color variation that occurs naturally in the dye bath. This makes a beautiful surface for writing or drawing into.

basil—hallward:

A Rainbow of Penguins (x)

(Source: jammavoy)

containercorps:

Recordings is a series of books that are the result of a physical interaction between the printer and the offset press. Colors are added to the press during printing following a predetermined “score.” The act of printing becomes an act of performance, and the book is the evidence of its occurrence. Recordings conflate books and sculpture. They use the machinery of mechanical reproduction to create visual records of specific, unrepeatable conditions of color and change.

poodles-and-doodles:

Timeline (A Light History of the Earth) by Katie Holten at Storm King

This piece is a color wheel book shelf featuring a bunch of books about color/light organized into a color wheel.

Rainbow Journals (with a page for each day of the year) by Gail Stiffe

Handmade, hand-dyed paper. Four books in a box, one book for each season. Hand bound with innovative stitching. View more here. 

Handmade Abstract Books by Roughdraftbooks

yrving:

One-page wonder is a technique used to make little books out of one single sheet of paper by folding it in 8 or 12 parts. For my Book Arts class at the AAU I created a series of these cute little books using photos I took during my recent trip to Santa Cruz, CA.

(Source: yrving)

soldieronpond:

The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin

I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.

One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face. 

It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me.

Picture source here

Available to purchase here

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