Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

Libraries give us Power Books make us Free by Mina Bach

A celebration of the public library system, reading and books.
150 x 240mm, 140 pages, hand bound.

Pull a handmade book of strings (by Kate Callan)

(Source: from89)

farewell-kingdom:

Boarding School is a brother sister team from Seattle & Maine. We find recycled wood and create beautiful finished boards which are bound into journals, books, and albums (via).

maryzen:

For a long time I was meaning to bring together and share my notes and tips from the bookbinding workshop this year. It seems like this is just about time to cover this one! ^_^

Topics list:

1. Simple booklet design.

2. How to check and fold the paper?

3. How to prepare the string?

4….

gatzbcn:

This post is dedicated to those tools I consider essential for bookbinding: cutting mat, cutter, scissors, press, paper folder, awl, needle, ruler, wax and pliers.

See this post in Spanish: http://gatzbcn.blogspot.mx/2013/02/herramientas-para-encuadernar-tools-for.html

• Cutting mat: this…

Edgar Allan’s Poe ‘The Raven’ Binding (2012) by Richard Tuttle 

Bound in black goat leather covered boards, with feathered endpaper treatments to give impression of a raven in flight. Binding is 10” x 12” & is designed to be able to be displayed as a free standing work of art. 

Moth in a Box by Sarah Fawcett 

Mixed-media and occasional book artist Sarah Fawcett depicts the death of a moth, but through the medium of a box rather than a book this time!

A few weeks back, a poor little moth passed over on my back door step, and  I marveled at its beauty and wanted to preserve this little creature to admire. So I got making a little box for he/she from polymer clay.

I wanted to have a box that was not only open at the top, but the bottom too, so you can view him/her from underneath, so i cut a little window on the bottom. Once I did that, I placed some text transparency inside and poured Ice Resin until the box was full of this wonderfully crystal clear magic. The resin made its wings see through, with just the slightest of colour but with so much detail.

the59thstreetbridge:

(by bibliographica)

Crochet Sakura Blossom Wooden Journal by Tanja Sova

Vintage Photo Slide Journal (by thebiglittlelunch)

A tiny photo slide journal using vintage photo slides, and mini blue graph paper pages. On the front slide of this particular book, there’s tranquil ocean-and-beach-scene, and on the back, there’s a medical slide of a pixelated brain.