Artists book

Found this unique illustrated fabric book in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York. The English translation of the title is “Ode to Forgetting”. The pages are composed of fa…

I am still trying out different ways of working in enamel using this concertina book form as a vehicle for my experiments. I have used my own photographs of early entomological collections making them into enamel transfers. Then I have sand blasted label shapes and beetles into the enamel surface. Rust will happen!!

William Cobbett's A French Grammar, published in 1829. Artist Kyra Clegg took this sad, battered old book and turned it from thi...

Posts about dos-à-dos binding written by Books On Books

Way back in November, on an airplane coming home from a family Thanksgiving celebration, I said to myself, "Now, what am I going to do?...

La inspiración :: 5 Libros de artista, de Kirsten Hall. Interesante diseños de…

A continuum of connections with the past...like reading the pages of a diary from another time and place... part of you but detached...drifting threads...a place between you and the clouds...here in Brisbane the clouds are closer to the ground then any other place... but still never within reach...assembling past narratives...silent stories that never resonate beyond a box, a page, a print, a book...the continual folds that extinguish our momentary connection to place...a vague…

If you love altered books and working with type you should check out Lisa Kokin’s site. One of my favorite pieces is this page that cuts out words so that you can see part of a photo behind i…

Have you ever found yourself doodling on the cover of a book, even just tracing over the lines of the artwork with your fingertips, or be it drawing moustaches with a permanent marker on magazine covers? I think we can safely say that American artist Joseph Decamillis has taken this practice to a wh