It seems like the taking of one art form and reimagining and repackaging it as another is all the rage these days. Christoph Gowan is probably the best known artist in this genre for his ongoing series The Record Book.Now thanks to Standard Designs in London I get to see how my favorite band looks in books. They have transformed the four studio albums released by The Smiths into shelf candy. Wow!and if you like some…
Continue readingStudy William S. Stone builds some pretty wild things – from chairs without legs to surreal clocks Stone offers a refreshing take on basic household objects.Luckily for us he has created a few pieces for he book crowd including the “Study,” a self-contained outdoor study space. Three bookcases Forest bookcase
Continue readingIt is pretty amazing what Italian artist Nino Orlandi can do with wood. Without any further ado, here’s a look at some of his exquisite book-themed wood carvings: Thanks to My Modern Met for the lead
Continue readingDas Buch (The Book). Anselm Kiefer, 1985. Lead, steel, and tin The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has recently launched a new website and have made available 20,000 images from their vast collection for free download. LACMA is blessed with the largest holdings of American Art in the west and now a quarter of their works online are available for free! The Book (Fall) III. John Stezaker, 2009. Artist’s book with unique photo collage To celebrate the announcement we…
Continue readingFilament Mind is the brilliant installation that graces the new Teton County Library in Wyoming. It is a real-time visual rendering of the “collective curiosities and questions of Wyoming library patrons”. It is composed of over 5 miles of fiber optic cables and has 44 LED illuminators that connect the visual data to 904 text labels with each fiber optic cable corresponding to a Dewey Decimal call number! The 1,000 categories represented by the Dewey Decimal call…
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