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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Bodyscapes
“Israeli artist Ronit Bigal meticulously presents excerpts from sacred Biblical texts on the human body in her Body Scripture IIseries. Like Allan Teger’s Bodyscapes, Bigal gets in close to the contours of the human form, re-imagining the body as an abstract landscape. On the grooved, fleshy expanse, the artist systematically applies black Indian ink calligraphy in Hebrew that reveals passages of scripture.”
A short but moving documentary on a dying breed of artisans: featuring LA’s oldest printing press Aardvark Letterpress, and speciality paper shop McManus & Morgan.
Loui Jover. This Soul. Pen and ink.
Montblanc Pen Lover [x]
Montblanc has a series of very rare Skeleton pens, and while they aren’t strictly steampunk, they certainly tickle all the right fancies to feel at home in a steampunk wardrobe. Now all I need is to scrape up the $90,000 it takes to own one…
(Source: artpixie)
(Source: whitehotel, via paperswallow)