Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

Fully Booked: Ink On Paper by Gestalten

I’ll level with you here, we’re getting pretty tired of the print vs digital debate. We love the endless scroll and unbridled sharing of the internet just as much as we love the tactility and uniquely possessive nature of books. Can’t we all just get along here guys? Still, when Gestalten get in touch with news that they’re producing a volume dedicated to the very best in book design and print innovation it IS pretty tempting to tell digital where to shove it.

But we’d never stoop that low. We’d rather celebrate the arrival of this fresh new tome, Fully Booked: Ink On Paper, by telling you that it celebrates the very best of what print does well; foiling, debossing, Japanese binding, experimental print techniques, unique formats and really exceptional design. It’s reassuringly full of work by some of the finest practitioners and publishers in the world today, and as you’d expect from a work that wrestles with such weighty content, it’s beautifully designed too.

So enough of the squabbling everybody, print’s still going strong, but that doesn’t mean you have to set fire to your iPad; it’s much more exciting to live in a world in which we can celebrate books on the internet and glorify gadgets in print. (Source: itsnicethat.com)

Botanica by Natalie Stopka

This artist book holds a collection of 12 eco prints, made on one late summer day in the Catskill Mountains. Each image is made only from the dye inherent to the plant. Gathered from the garden and foraged from the fields, these plant prints are the portrait of a place and time. Because some of the colorants in each image are not lightfast, they will gradually fade over time, leaving only the permanent dyes. The artist book is bound in naturally dyed and printed silk joined with a herringbone stitch.

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.

upthefolksstudio:

Every sink in which I brushed my teeth between may 25th and July 20th, 2009. 

Silkscreened accordion fold book.   

Proof that you can make a book about anything!

DIY Silhouette Mini Journal (by apairofpears)

superawesomeshop:

“[We] developed a passion for vintage – especially paper ephemera, illustration, stationary, and books. We have a personal collection of vintage notebooks that we found while hunting at antique stationary stores and flea markets. Soon, our love of vintage aesthetics, paper, and the feeling of something unique grew into a passion for making. We learned about letterpress, book binding, and other traditional techniques, and now we have our own letterpress studio where we make our notebooks and posters.”

From this week’s Featured Etsy Seller interview.

(via sosuperawesome)

Ziggy by Mary Taylor

nevver:

Calligraphuck

ianbrooks:

Made Up Stats Letterpress

Facts are usually true, so I never question anybody when they start referencing them. This collection of some of the most interesting facts in history come to you from the minds at Made Up Stats, which seems totally legit to me. The cards are available from Sapling Press’ etsy.

(by Kaylee Lin)

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