2012 was the first year of the You Fab awards; a contest honoring the best in laser cutter design ideas from around the world. Japanese designer Yusuke Oono took home an award for this little gem, a small book that opens into a 3D journey in the round.On winning the award Oono said:I am so thrilled to have been selected as the winner of the Free Fab category for You Fab 2012. I like finding new ways to express dimension, and it occurred to me to create this palm-sized book that opens out to form a 3D world. I hope that everyone who opens...
The LunchBook
Snack on this: An international recipe book with "paper plate" pages to eat on. LunchBook is designed by Italian design team Sebastiano Ercoli and Alessandro Garlandini for the Expo Milano 2015 world exposition dedicated to food, sustainability and nutrition. This culinary world book contains international recipes encouraging the visitor to use its pages as plates and taste the many dishes from the Expo Milano stands. Once a page is used it can be easily removed. The pages have been coated with a waterproof biopolymer film and are 100% recyclable and compostable. An added feature is having each paper plate's border based upon the traditional...
Book Art from a Bookseller
It was Christmas season 2010 and senior bookseller Justin Rowe was in the process of trying to figure out what to do for a holiday window display at the Cambridge University Press Bookshop when his wife whipped out an old food magazine that had a recipe with a papercut background.The seed was planted and Rowe got to work. He created 3 book sculptures for the window display.The result was "pretty amazing" says Rowe. "Suddenly I’d look out of the window and there'd be eight people crowded round it. That was quite odd. Then I did it again last year, and...
A Book Artist Takes to the Stage: Su Blackwell as Set Designer
Su Blackwell is a master papercut artist. She is best known for her intricate paper sculptures that emanate from books. Her work appears in many of the A-level book art exhibits around the world and has been used for various book and magazine covers. Last holiday season Blackwell moved from the confines of the codex to design the set for the Charles Way adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale The Snow Queen at London's Rose Theatre. Poster for The Snow Queen. Designs by Su BlackwellGiven that much of her book work is derived from the realm of fairy-tales and...
Some Visual Stimulus Courtesy of Redfoxpress
Located on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland Redfoxpress is the brainchild of Francis Van Maele. Van Maele, whose previous publishing house Editions Phi was acquired by the Luxembourger Newspaper "Tagablatt", launched Redfoxpress in 2001 to focus solely on the creation and production of artists books. One of the highlights of the press is their "C'est mon Dada" series. "A collection of small hand made artists' books dedicated to experimental, concrete and visual poetry, or any work combining text and image in the spirit of dada or fluxus."West of Dodge by Nico Vassilaki, 2010. USA. Volume 38 in the series....