I like the spine on this book by Mirelle Francoeur (binding by Hélène Francoeur)
Category: Bookmaking
What to do with Paint Swatches
There are lots of suggestions on the internet about incorporating paint or pantone swatches in art, but I like these best. They are by London-based artist Nick Smith.
The Museum of Modern Art Library
The Museum of Modern Art Library, in New York City, has a tumbler that posts holdings, some of them artist’s books or book arts related. Here are a couple I liked. The first is “Truism Stamps” by Jenny Holzer from the Steven Leiber Extra Art Archive.
And this: Some scans of the Art Metropole edition ScanOps by Andrew Norman Wilson. They are inkjet prints from a collection of “errors” that capture the hands of the scanners from the massive scanning project that feeds Google Books. Wilson compiled the images through browsing the archive of scanned printed books in the Google Books inventory. Here’s an interview of Wilson about the project.
Custom Calendar/Planners
I’m now including calendar/planner pages in my custom spiral-bound books. Check them out in my Etsy store. Use coupon code SPRING2015BLOG for 15% off until May 16.
Butterfly pop-up with map fold
Illustrator Carol Kearn’s butterfly pop-up book. Found here. The book is about 4-3/4″ x 4-3/4″ (12cm x 12cm). “There are a total of 18 pages. including 3 double-spreads which feature paper engineered ‘pop-ups’.” And she made an edition fo 50.
Studio Visit with Katherine Venturelli
Northern California book artists Katherine Venturelli is visiting Santa Fe this month and last week she came by my studio for a visit. She contacted me because I did a post about her book Alchemic Calculations (below) last year.
I thought it was a turkish map fold, but it’s not (really this). Katherine does use the turkish map fold quite a bit in her work, and she brought some examples with her. On her website, she’s even labelled them! Here’s one called “Universe at Play.”
I love the hand drawn math calculations on one side and the prints of the cosmos on the other! And it was fun to talk with her about where we show our books, who we know in common, and especially to see her work in person.
Do check out her website for many more images.