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Fun with books

Book as a block, block as a type = booksetting [Link | via SWISSMISS]
booksetting

Beautiful stop motion video from apt using 1000 books. [Link | via NotCot]

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

More Altered Books

Georgia Russell’s amazing The Library Series
Georgia Russell
[ link | via decor8 ]

Noriko Ambe Cutting Book Series
Noriko Ambe
[ link ]

Jen Khoshbin’s Book Project series
Jen Khoshbin
[ link | via poppytalk ]

Su Blackwell’s Book Cut Sculpture
Su Blackwell
[ link | via decor8 ]

Laura Cahill’s Book Vases
Laura Cahill
[ link | via boingboing ]

iPhone wallpaper images from the library

I’ve been taking photos of objects in the library for years now… so when I saw Walking Paper’s lovely library-ish iphone wallpaper post – I was inspired to make group of my own.

Most of these were taken in the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library, Preservation and Conservation lab, and the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library.

All have been formatted specifically for the iphone (320×480) but they’ll probably work for other mobile devices too. Click to get full version.

poster pinkTie.jpg router
dictionary Stack of engineering papers book spine
Tabbed book book press paper scraps
Handmade Book Spine Books Marble paper
papers stamps book
books book spine code
letterpress vellum book cover IMG_8738.jpg
microfilm marble book book

Books + (Art OR Design)

The Future of Books

Here’s an interesting student project by Kyle Bean (illustrator, designer and maker of ‘things’)
The Future of Books
[link | via notcot]

Asterick Bookends

By Blank Project
Asterick Bookends
[link | via swissmiss]

Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones
[via the Design Files | see also]

Wise Words from Chip Kidd

Wise words from Chip Kidd

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art AND (books OR library)

Though I no longer make “art” (yes, I was a weird art school chick) I still love art and now I love libraries. So, here is a collection of where the two intersect.

Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project
Nina Katchadourian

Cara Barer
cara barer

Brian Dettmer’s carved book series
History of Western Europe

chotda’s bookshelf organized by color
colorshelves.jpg

Mickey Smith’s series of journal spine photographs
Today + Tomorrow

Abelardo Morell’s photographic book series
Morell’s Two Tall Books

Jonathan Callan
politics

Thomas Allen
Allen’s Duel

My attempt at library related art: “Library Details” flickr set
Rolled Print

See also:
cARTalog: University of Iowa Library’s project to purpose their retired card catalog into art and the The Rainbow of Books Flickr Group