OMG, OMG, OMG!!!!!!!
I want one sssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo badly.
http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/customized-book-side-tables/
Monday, April 25, 2011
The MOST Awesome Table for Books EVER!!!
OMG, OMG, OMG!!!!!!!
I want one sssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo badly.
http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/customized-book-side-tables/
Friday, April 1, 2011
A Twist on Book Arts
Some books are so unique as to be almost from a different reality, yet other books are disposable enough to be turned into...art:
Sue Blackwell turns books into sculpted memories
The artist' website calls it a book-cut sculpture, an ephemeral and highly personal way to convey a message; the artist compares it with "receiving a marked-up copy of a book from a friend. It's like turning books into memories".
A Secret Garden:
Birds of the Open Forest:
A Quiet American:
(images by permission of Sue Blackwell)
Thomas Allen gives an extra cutting-edge to pulp fiction
The action of various pulp novels, under the creative touch of Thomas Allen, literally jumps from the gaudy covers into reality. The carved figurines of villains and damsels in distress battle each other and pose dramatically in three dimensions. You be the judge if it enhances the contents within.
This might leave you cold if you don't care much for vintage paperbacks, or might leave you all hot & bothered, if you are a collector and can't stand the sight of perfectly good collectibles being destroyed for the sake of art. In any case, enjoy a clip of a dramatic chipmunk (oh no, I finally linked to it, didn't I?), and lets move on to the actual examples of the modern book-binding art.
Creative Publishing
If you misplaced one of your golf balls, chances are, your wife is reading it:
Fancy wood cover, and more:
Almost like a Hallmark card, very pretty:
Again... this stuff was stolen from blog "Dark ROasted Blend"
Sue Blackwell turns books into sculpted memories
The artist' website calls it a book-cut sculpture, an ephemeral and highly personal way to convey a message; the artist compares it with "receiving a marked-up copy of a book from a friend. It's like turning books into memories".
A Secret Garden:
Birds of the Open Forest:
A Quiet American:
(images by permission of Sue Blackwell)
Thomas Allen gives an extra cutting-edge to pulp fiction
The action of various pulp novels, under the creative touch of Thomas Allen, literally jumps from the gaudy covers into reality. The carved figurines of villains and damsels in distress battle each other and pose dramatically in three dimensions. You be the judge if it enhances the contents within.
This might leave you cold if you don't care much for vintage paperbacks, or might leave you all hot & bothered, if you are a collector and can't stand the sight of perfectly good collectibles being destroyed for the sake of art. In any case, enjoy a clip of a dramatic chipmunk (oh no, I finally linked to it, didn't I?), and lets move on to the actual examples of the modern book-binding art.
Creative Publishing
If you misplaced one of your golf balls, chances are, your wife is reading it:
Fancy wood cover, and more:
Almost like a Hallmark card, very pretty:
Again... this stuff was stolen from blog "Dark ROasted Blend"
Book Autopsy
A Good Potboiler: what makes a book tick -
Study the inner workings of a plot and characterization in this incredibly open and visual way: books dissected and enhanced by mixed media - designed by Brian Dettmer.
Some call it "Book Autopsies"; I'd call it "hack writing, with 3D illustrations". The anatomical "content" looks especially interesting:
Other work from Brian Dettmer includes some kind of fossil formations, with books revealed in them:
Scalpel Art has to be even more precise... But the book itself is basically trashed. Georgia Russell is responsible for this irresistible "carnage":
It feels like these books have to be contained, otherwise they would explode in streams of wild tangle all over the room:
Other really awesome book art: from Su Blackwell -
"The Book of Nails" by Daniel Essig:
Profile of a really well-read individual
Aaron Packer in his gallery shows this wonderful book sculpture:
Thank you "Dark ROasted Blend"
Study the inner workings of a plot and characterization in this incredibly open and visual way: books dissected and enhanced by mixed media - designed by Brian Dettmer.
Some call it "Book Autopsies"; I'd call it "hack writing, with 3D illustrations". The anatomical "content" looks especially interesting:
Other work from Brian Dettmer includes some kind of fossil formations, with books revealed in them:
Scalpel Art has to be even more precise... But the book itself is basically trashed. Georgia Russell is responsible for this irresistible "carnage":
It feels like these books have to be contained, otherwise they would explode in streams of wild tangle all over the room:
Other really awesome book art: from Su Blackwell -
"The Book of Nails" by Daniel Essig:
Profile of a really well-read individual
Aaron Packer in his gallery shows this wonderful book sculpture:
Thank you "Dark ROasted Blend"
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