Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

My book arts course is hosting a small Book Arts & Design exhibition next week if any Londoners are interested in dropping by :)

(Source: interimshow2013)

we-find-wildness:

Ed Ruscha:

booklet from the exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982

The inaugural European artists’ book event will take place this year in London on Saturday the 21st July 2012.

KALEID editions invites submissions from European based artists for an exhibition and book fair; to showcase the best of artists’ books to an international audience, to attract private and public collections and to establish a networking event for creative practitioners. 

KALEID 2012 is supported by Art Academy London, the British National Art Library and English Arts Council’s Saison Poetry Library.

Speaking Volumes is now accepting submissions for their upcoming exhibit at the VISAC Gallery in Trail, BC this fall. The exhibit is about everything books! Submit your handmade books, altered books, sculptural books, pamphlets, zines and pages to Speaking Volumes and have your work exhibited!

Send a self addressed and stamped envelope and we will return submissions.

The exhibit opens October 19^th 2012.

Deadline for submissions is September 15^th 2012.

Mail to:

Jenn Hamm

PO Box 424

Salmo, BC

Canada

V0G 1Z0

e-mail: speakingvolumestour@gmail.com

Check out the blog and facebook page!

(Thanks for sharing this information with us Jenn, best of luck with your exhibition!)

interimshow:

The Book in Context is an exhibition of bookworks created by the third year London College of Communication undergraduates on the BA (Hons) Book Arts & Design programme.

These bookworks are a demonstration of how our traditional preconceptions of the Book can be challenged through exploration and interrogation of the Book’s form.

As Book Arts & Design is an interdisciplinary subject, the student’s work on display incorporates fine art, graphic design and independent publishing, together with a drawing of inspiration from historical and contextual sources. Consequently, the bookworks are self-authored projects, a communicating and packaging of ideas tailored to the student’s chosen theme - a demonstration of books as verbal and narrative exploration, as documents, as a visual form and books as conceptual spaces.

As a result, The Book in Context exhibition challenges how we, the audience, are being encouraged to think about the way information is consumed, how reading patterns and styles are evolving and how the Book is responding to the digital age.

However, the Book as a printed artefact is still one to behold and this exhibition is recognition of the wonderful fluidity and possibilities within the Book; how it stretches our imagination and continues to adapt to our ever-changing world.

‘A book is a highly complex organisation of material and conceptual elements’ (Drucker, J. 2004. The Century of Artists’ Books)

Londoners, come along tonight if you wish to see some work by my Book Art & Design course’s final year of students! Seeya there ;) x

georgecullen submitted:

“I’m part of a group of artists having a book art show in cambridge. Anyone who is in the area should check it out it is looking really good.

23rd January - 2nd February

PRIVATE VIEW
28th January 2012

100 Regent Street 
Cambridge 
Cambridgeshire 
CB2 1DP

ROLAND BRAUCHLI
EGIDIJA ČIRICAITĖ WADE
GEORGE CULLEN
RENEE FISHER
ROBERT GOOD
JUKHEE KWON
LISA WILKENS
PATSY RATHBONE

Brief Permanence is an exhibition showing the works of eight artists whose practices explore the boundaries of what a book is and can be. Using a variety of different media such as sculpture, installation, collage and video the book as container of knowledge and object of culture is reconsidered and reconstructed.

Brief Permanence is a collaboration of recent MA Book Arts and MA Printmaking graduates from Camberwell College and MFA Fine Arts graduates from Cambridge School of Art.”

threadless:

The Olly Moss Art Show @ Gallery 1988

Threadless artist Olly Moss creates incredible paper-cut silhouettes of his favorite pop culture characters, from Mary Poppins to Darth Vader. They’re currently on display in an exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Melrose and will run through May 20th. Check out folks’ reactions at the opening night event.

Exclusive video by Craig Shimala (aka shimala)

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beautyandthebook:

To me, sketchbooks are some of the most beautiful things on the planet because there’s a certain amount of organicism and unsurity to them; Everything drawn in a sketchbook is a test, an experiment of “well, what if I tried this…”; nothing is drawn with the intent of showing the world, or selling it, or featuring it in an art exhibit. Thus, when you peak into the pages of one, it’s like your becoming partial to a secret that only the select few are privy to.

(Source: moviesandmusicandbooksohmy)

cartwheelgalaxy:

Paper Cave. Constructed by Ductch designers Wendy Plomp of WND and design studio Edhv. Consists of hundreds of paper cones pasted on the floor and ceiling inside the exhibition space of the Verger shop in Milan.

cartwheelgalaxy:

OH! MY! GOD! I am so in love with this. Just watch.

(The Ice Book - Beautiful projection animation / paper sculpture by Davy McGuire.)