Time creates history and time changes history. From existing texts visual artist Nicola Dale painstakingly carves a new history, both for the texts themselves and for the those of us lucky enough to consume them.A Secret Heliotropism, 2006. Hand cut found book; full color, 320 pagesUsing a Walter Benjamin quote from his ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ as a starting point Dale took a copy of “The People’s Century” and a very small pair of scissors and transformed the 320 page history book from a mass produced object to a unique piece of book art. Over the course of...
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...
Binding the Booker Prize
Binding: Lester Capon for 'Animal's People' by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster), Designer Bookbinders was founded over 50 years ago to promote the craft of fine bookbinding.Since 1991 their members have been creating beautiful unique bindings for the 6 shortlisted novels for Booker Prize.Here's how it works:"The binder...has only four to five weeks to read, design and bind their book (with a container). The books must be ready in time for the night of the final prize announcement, when each bound novel is presented to its author at the famous 'Booker dinner'."Wouldn't it be great if we had something similar...
Changing Covers
In 1894, The Inland Printer, under the direction of Will Bradley, became the first American magazine to change its cover with every issue.Gallery of covers at Magazineart.orgThanks to Design Observer for the lead