Deborah Bowness is a wallpaper artist. Her 'Genuine Fake Bookshelf' and 'Original Genuine Bookshelf' designs adorn the walls of some pretty hip destinations.Phillip Stark /Yoo DenmarkThe 'Library' of the Soho House New YorkThe Sausage-Leamington SpaImagine if you could choose the titles or the bookshelf.Thanks to Habitually Chic for the lead. Her recent post Member's Only has the skinny on the smashing interiors of Soho House.
Sabuda pops up at the Wall Street Journal
Paper engineer and pop-up book king Robert Sabuda is featured in a 4+ minute video on The Wall Street Journal's Digital Network.Sabuda chats with Robert Hughes about his new Christmas book "Winter in White" and his new larger work "The Chronicles of Narnia."Highlights:Pop-up books are unique in that they are still completely hand-made. No matter where a pop-up book is manufactured, Sabuta's are made in Thailand and China, it can only be assembled by hand.Sabuda, along with his partner and fellow paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt, work with a team of 5 paper engineers.Sabuda says that hardest part of creating pop-up...
‘The Cedar Branch Chronicle’ by Jocelyn Curry
Seattle: 2007. One-of-a-kind. Sculpture, mixed media; Yellow cedar, watercolor and laser images on paper. Designed specifically for its location at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers. // For 'The Cedar Branch Chronicle', Curry collected one natural artifact and one man-made artifact during her daily walk. Without any self-imposed rules other than scale, upon returning, a watercolor 'journal-entry' composition was created from these found objects on a uniform 3-1/2 x 7" card. The thirty-one daily paintings are suspended from a dramatic 17-foot long cedar branch found on the shores of Puget Sound near the artist's home. The finished installation is essentially an alternative...
Pop-Up Books Meet Photoshop
Last week the folks at Something Awful invited their forum members "to make some fancy new pop-up books based on a variety of topics, from video games and movies to art and being a jerk." Link to the 7 page gallery
The Book Man at Burning Man
The theme of the 2000 Burning Man gathering was the body.This large book sculpture was created by Dana Albany and was titled the Body of Knowledge"A large-scale sculpture of the human body, entirely composed of out-date textbooks and discarded library books..The sheer presence of these books, what one could ultimately classify as discarded knowledge, re-used and sculpted into the human form, would silently speak. Each book represents a single cell or specific part of the body. Whether that book contains concrete scientific fact, fiction or poetry, its stories and tales help shape the human form, in its qualitative known existence...