4 posts tagged “art with books”
Cool Link -
http://paintalicious.org/2008/11/20/thomas-allens-book-art-photography
"American photographer Thomas Allen constructs witty and clever dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks. Using salacious pulp art drawing’s of the ’40s and ’50s that covered books such as ” I Married a Dead Man” and ” Marihuana Girl’, Allen constructs one set of pictures up close while obscuring another, and in the process creates a different context. Each piece is given a brand new storyline, though never quite strays from their cheeky origins"
Quick post. I saw this online and thought it was cool, though a bit sad. Makes me want to dive in! More pictures here and in my vox pictures. According to a comment on that site this is "some kind of technical library situated near old abandoned factory. Those are mostly technical reference books and some communism theory."
Via design*sponge - Domino magazine has a flickr group and one of the users - chotda has arranged her bookshelf according to color. It looks awesome, but I'd go crazy trying to find things... I'm forgetful as is. I arrange alphabetically mostly (it falls apart when I run aout of space). Here is a flickr group - rainbow of books were others have arrange their books according to color.
And back in 2004, artist Chris Cobb rearranged the entire contents of Adobe bookstore in San Francisco by color. The work was entitled "There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World". Here's a link to an NPR broadcast about this with a slideshow of pictures, and another link with some lovely photos taken by a blogger at superhero designs. A couple of pictures from those sites below:
