Pop DelusionsA House of Credit Cards(backed with Chinese money)Richard Minsky, 2012 10" x 13¼" x 13¼" Minsky's credit cards, Chinese paper money, 23K gold leaf, binders' board, bookcloth, felt, linen tape, wood, J. B. Green handmade paper, acrylic, US$10 bills.It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least. - Robert BrowningThe latest work from book art master Richard Minsky solidifies his position as one of the granddaddy's of political book art.With a powerful combination of credit cards, Chinese and American currency and copies of Charles...
The Landscape of the Book
the sky and the ground (for Remy Charlip), Michael Dumontier, 2012, foil stamp on found books.Sometimes we just need labels to explain what we are seeing.::From Stopping Off Place via vineet kaur.
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Fifty Shades of Grey on Fire
Calling the runaway bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey "bad for marriages and particularly bad for men" a radio show in Cleveland called on its listeners to bring copies of the book to a local establishment to have them burned.As usual with these covert marketing events the burning was a dud with just six copies of the book and one Nook going up in flames. Previously on book patrol: Church Plans on Burning the Qur'an on 9/11Digital Book BurningBurning Books to Stay WarmA Halloween Book Burning: Only God's Word Will SurviveThe Chinese Book Burner and the Great Wall of Books
The Golden Rules of Typography
The Golden Alphabet; or Parent's Guide and Child's Instructor, published by Robert Taylor. This extremely rare miniature alphabet book from 1846 contains some beautiful decorated initials, followed by several pages of rhymes and moral platitudes for parenting and instruction of children. Based on these three images, I can only presume that Taylor was a far better evangelist than he was a printer or typesetter. Damn the wordspacing and to hell with letterspacing! The word kern must have been just a four-letter word to Taylor. If only he would have listened to his printer's devil and followed some of the golden rules of typography—but then this...