Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

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The Bonefolder E-Journal Volumes 1-8 (Free Download)

The Bonefolder published significant articles by established and emerging authorities on a variety of book arts topics. These include hand bookbinding, teaching, business practice, the history of the book, the book as art, general tips & tricks, exhibitions, how-to technical articles, and reviews.

On January 13, 2012, Volume 8, the largest (and regrettably last) issue of The Bonefolder was published online. What started as an experiment in open-access online-only publishing “way back” in 2004 grew into perhaps the most widely read publication in the book arts with over a quarter million downloads for all issues combined since we began with a global readership. 

escapekit:

Surface by Aurélien Juner

Surface is a personal photographic réflexion, by Aurélien Juner, on the function of fashion magazine as a medium of dissemination of “mass culture” images and its relation to reality – questioning the status of the fictional world and idealized created for the magazine, and its relationship to the real world where the image is built.

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ryandonato:

Francesca Pastine

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teachingliteracy:

tacticalshoyu:

Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” consists of hundreds of images cut from five decades of Life Magazines. Stretching down a long hall at the Documenta 13 art exhibition in Kassel, this amazing installation piece gives us a photographic archive of American culture from 1935 to 1985. via

(by Kaylee Lin)

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“Ten years ago, my husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, our daughter, and I stood four blocks away from the second tower as we watched it collapse in excruciatingly slow motion. Later, back in my office, I felt that images were suddenly powerless to help us understand what had happened. The only appropriate solution seemed to be to publish no cover image at all—an all-black cover. Then Art suggested adding the outlines of the two towers, black on black. So from no cover came a perfect image, which conveyed something about the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the abrupt tear in the fabric of reality.”

- Art Editor Françoise Mouly on “9/11/2001,” the first New Yorker cover following 9/11.

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lukebright:

Really nice book on the history of Playboy.

Makes the whole “lads mags” genre a lot more graceful.

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misswallflower:

missed connections

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky