The ShiningWhat do you get when you mix a paper artist with a love of horror films?Yep, you guessed - it is Horrorgami; haunted houses created with a single sheet of paper.Marc Hagan-Guirey has created "13 original kirigami buildings based on infamous haunted locations from cult movies." Of course, each piece is produced in a limited edition of 13.Here is the house from and the Horrorgami of the The Amityville Horror:The MacNeill Residence from The ExorcistGhostbustersHere is a video of Hagan-Guirey talking HorrorgamiMore at Hagan-Guirey's website Paper Dandy
The United States of YA
A state by state sampling of some worthy YA reads courtesy of Epic Reads
A Century of War of the Worlds
This is sort of a vertical sampling (somewhat out of order) of cover designs for H.G.Wells War of the Worlds, from Dr. Zeus. This site features book and magazine covers from dozens of countries with an incredibly well cross-referenced database. You can find covers of tripods, flying saucers, humans running at you, humans grabbed by tentacles, or just plain odd covers of this book which was first published in 1898. Dr. Zeus even has a graph of design element trends for WotWs' covers over the last century. While you browse, listen to the original Orson Welles radio broadcast which first aired on October 30th...
A Headboard for Bibliophiles: DIY
Now this is a project that might get me to buy a hammer!A step by step visual guide to building your very own book headboard.Thanks to Design Every Day one can now accomplish this in 9 easy steps.Man, just think of the possibilities. A smaller version for the kids with covers of Dr. Seuss books or a headboard with only illustrations.And the visual poets will have a field day.Hmm, perhaps a contest for the coolest book headboard is in order....
Words outside: The Work of Jim Sanborn
A Comma, A, 2004. Copper, international language texts, light, black granite paving inlay6'x26'x80. Plaza in front of the new library, University of Houston, Houston, TXJim Sanborn's sculptures grace the landscapes of a number of universities, museums and government buildings. From outside the C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, VA to the front entrance of the University of Houston library Sanborn's works entice the passerby to engage.Rippawam, 1999. Rolled copper, Native American texts with English translationSize: 6'x26'x4'. University of Connecticut, Stamford, CTWhether it is his series of lighted installations that have featured Native American, Latin and "international language" texts splattered all over the surrounding space or his series of...