Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

mitchell-and-ross:

“What Was: A Collection,” 2011

Four poems laser-cut out of birch wood.

1/4 “Summer:” How many hours do you think we spent up there, squinting at the sun through the trees? Do you remember how the heat seemed to slow our movements, our conversation? How we slowly shifted ourselves across the shingles, taking comfort in small patches of shade. Peeling off what little we had on, we step into the shower, red faced, sweat dripping from our foreheads and temples. As the cold water blasts across our bodies, we inhale sharply. Stepping out, you grab a towel and despite the heat, wrap me tightly inside its warmth.

- Sam

printed-ink:

from Horseradish, by Lemony Snicket.

(Source: williemckay)

alecshao:

Mar Arza, Asylum

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

mythologyofblue:

Dan Collier, Typographic Links, 2007

A hand-sewn, three-dimensional hyperlink structure that guides the reader through the pages of a book (above); detail (right)

From Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

(princetonarchitecturalpress)

shakenmake:

A book of strange words we don’t use normally

Transfer, pen, acrylic, and shoelaces.

©abbeyfrenchu

(Source: abbeyfrenchu)

tatteredcover:

Word art: texts written on grains of rice mythologyofblue:

Trong G. Nguyen, Library, 2007.

The entire text and individual chapters of various books written word for word on grains of rice. A re-interpretation of the library.

(blesseparlemot)

(Source: hurtbytheword, via infinitiesarebiggerontheinside)

poptech:

Wonderful Alphabet animation. 

(Source: vimeo.com)

teachingliteracy:

by photoq

niiicethings:

“Noun is a playful artist’s book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with words.

Starting with 27 real English words, each word and its definition has been divided into two parts. By turning the pages, you get to mix and match the word halves to create humorous and nonsensical new words and meanings.

With over 700 different combinations, this book is the perfect item for bibiophiles, lexicographers, writers, and any lover of words.

Here are a few examples of words and definitions you can put together:

whisper + umbrella = whisbrella: A low sibilan utterance for sheltering one from rain and sun.
banana + onomatopoeia = bananpoeia: A large herbaceous perennial tropical plant that bears fruit imitating the sound of the thing or action signified.
muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.
nomenclature + ancestry = nomencestry: A system or set of names for things derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.”

orientaltiger:

(by Pariesa)

(via thenouveautotoro)