And the award for best use of a novel goes to this guy.His name is Mark Estes and it was his response to an assignment where he had to come up with a "Representation of a book title.This definitely expands the meaning of book covers.I can see an outbreak on the horizon of people taking photos with their books as coverings much like that viral YouTube thread from last year of people showing off their books to music.
Book Bench
pocketbench by Swiss artist Jan Reymond.Approx. 180 cm x 80 cm x 100 cm.price: $3500 euros.It would look great under that shelf of books you bought by the yard.Now imagine one where all the spines are the same color.If interested in or have questions about the one pictured please contact Book Patrol for additional information.Top photo © Piotr Jaxa
The Author Needs An Art Director
This past weekend the Design Research Conference was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Louis Rosenfeld, a leader in the field of information architecture, was one of the speakers and he addressed the role of design in the book world and the challenges that publishers face.It is no secret that the visual component of a book is directly tied to sales. Rosenfeld believes that design affects not only the inside and outside of the book but also the brand of the book and the author. The visual component of a book and its author now extend far...
Book Art: The Coupland 50 and the Hirschhorn 37
Douglas Coupland is as much of a visual artist as he is a writer. With his book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Coupland engraved his name on popular culture by tagging the post baby-boomer generation. Books; however, are more than words for Coupland.Coupland's latest book piece is titled Fifty Books I Have Read More than Once. Coupland takes the covers from the 50 books he has read more than once and glues them to the ends of wooden blocks, the length of which is determined by the books importance to Coupland. The installation is on view at the...
Graphic Poetry. Ted Kooser Meets Paul Hornschemeier
The 5th installment of the Poetry Foundation's The Poem as Comic Strip series features a Paul Hornschemeier interpretation of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser's poem The Giant Slide.Upon reading the poem Hornschemeier says he "saw the entire comic, just as it is in the finished version, all of the panels just floating there along with the time and beats of the poem,”Here is a link to the strip. (pdf)Here are the other 4 strips in the series:#1: David Heatley and Diane Wakoski#2: Gabrielle Bell and Emily Dickinson#3: Jeffrey Brown and Russell Edson#4: Ron Regé, Jr. and...