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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I Am The Friction is a limited edition book by Sing Statistics. One half of the book is composed of short stories inspired by illustrations; the other half illustrations inspired by short stories. The screen printed illustration on recycled paper makes for a beautiful front cover.
Show Me The Honey by Mary Taylor
“Inspired by bee colony collapse disorder. 6 page accordion fold book, Arches paper, gelatin monoprint outside, digitally printed interior pages. Finished with encaustic, gold leaf, inkjet transfer and metallic pigments. Case: wood and gold colored transparency film. 7.25” x 5” Variant Edition of 15.”
(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)
I love the design of the packaging/typography. It also helps that Emily Haines is my favorite female musician!
emily haines and the soft skeleton limited edition record pack