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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Beili Liu - 237 Minutes
“I positioned a piece of burning charcoal on a stack of wax paper. The exchange and transformation between the heat and the material is recorded on each layer of paper. The process is visually documented by the subtle transition of large, dramatic burnt holes circled with shards of black ash, to faded yellow circles. The process took 237 minutes.”
Bookmaking infographic: Instructions for constructing hard cover books.
(via niiicethings)
A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods.
(Submitted by writingandnotwriting)
“An entry from the diary of a young Charlotte Brontë recalls a stormy night and is ‘crazily compressed into nearly microscopic print.’”
(via mythologyofblue)
3,000 photographs document the process of hand-making 35 books over 2 months.