What can you do with print books?   Of course, you can read them, lend them, give them, exchange them or sell them. Or. like Bookman which usually sells them, you can use them as a prop in an advertisement.   Have a look at their video clip, it’s awesome   … Read entire article »

Micro Libraries – When Books Camp Outside – The BookYard In Ghent, Belgium, St. Peter’s Abbey Vineyard has been a part of the town  landscape since the Middle Ages. Now this historic vineyard has gotten a  beautiful new addition, dubbed Bookyard, which was recently installed by the  Italian artist Massimo  Bartolini. Designed as part of the art festival Track:  A Contemporary City Conversation, 12 sweeping bookcases  align with the Abbey’s grapevines and harken back to an … Read entire article »

Book Art – Bubble Books Georgia Russell is a Scottish artist who slashes, cuts and dissects printed matter, transforming books, music scores, maps, newspapers and photographs. Russell has been represented by England & Co since she graduated from the Royal College of Art, and her numerous solo and group exhibitions with the gallery have led to her work being acquired by The Victoria and Albert Museum and lent to exhibitions in museums in Europe, Canada and the USA, most recently to the Museum of Art & Design, New York. Below are a few samples of the fascinating ways she sees books   … Read entire article »

Book Art – Words Can Kill   Words have lots of power. They can kill, they can be used as weapons, or they can also be used to clean up false ideas trapped in deep recesses of your mind. Robert The is illustrating this with his book art. Killing words   Bugging words     Words can clean     … Read entire article »

Book Art – Book Autopsies by Brian Dettmer Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. “My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its … Read entire article »

Book Art – Building Books Haven’t we all dreamt of a book made of books. where the walls holds myriads of stories to populate our dreams? Well,  artist Bendtsen. Bendtsen creates a series of architectural “installations ” using books. At first look these works may seem to be simply a pile of books though skillfully arranged to create a sculptural, architectural form. Upon a closer look one finds that titles of the books, the different types of … Read entire article »

Ever wondered what to do with the old phonebooks gathering dust and eating up space? What about putting them in a museum? Here is how   Scroll down to see the results   Or look at them sideways     Or from the back     … Read entire article »

Book Art – Old Fashioned 3D Books Back in the good olden days, the only kind of 3D books were called pop-up books and were aimed mainly at children. Nowadays, these have become art and do not pop-up anymore as one is meant to look at them and not touch them. Here below are a few sample of these new popped up books, called book sculptures, by Su Blackwell, a sub-genre of the new art form that accompanies the emergence of digital books as some begin to view print books as an obsolete medium. … Read entire article »