Books as Art

How to Rescue a Water-Damaged Book: A Short, Handy Primer (video)

20 October, 2017 // 4 Comments

We all know how to use the rice trick to recover a waterlogged gadget (hint: oatmeal works better), but have you ever had to revive a book from a watery demise? The Syracuse University [Read More ...]

The Lost Art of Fore-Edge Artwork (video)

24 September, 2016 // 0 Comments

For the most part books are now mass-produced, disposable commodities (the construction quality of the average paperback makes that point indisputable). But there was a time when books were luxuries, [Read More ...]

Battle of Hydraulic Press v Book Ends in Pyrrhic Victory (video)

24 April, 2016 // 3 Comments

The Hydraulic Press channel is one of those examples of what happens when engineers have access to industrial equipment and too much time on their hands (see the Slingshot channel for another [Read More ...]

The Map of Fictional London Will Keep You From Getting Lost in the Story

15 January, 2016 // 1 Comment

Paper maps may be going the way of the phone book, but that doesn't mean they don't have their uses. Take the Map of Fictional London, for example. Its creators have pulled together references to [Read More ...]

JungleBook: Simple Kindle eBook Cover Analysis

31 August, 2015 // 7 Comments

For those who were intrigued by the Slate article on similar book covers, here is a guest post by Jason van Gumster. I got myself good and distracted from my regular project work and ended up [Read More ...]

The Book Cover that Judges You (video)

7 February, 2015 // 3 Comments

We all judge books by their covers; it's the first step in deciding if a book is worth reading. Here's a book that turns the tables on us. "The Cover that Judges You" is a prototype for the Art [Read More ...]

Artist Backs Up His Copy of 1984 The Old-Fashioned Way

30 July, 2013 // 5 Comments

I have heard of people who like to print out their content and read it on paper but this is a new one. An artist by the name of Jesse England has come up with a new way to make a backup copy of his [Read More ...]

What The Book Interactive Exhibit Reveals What People Really Feel About Books

19 October, 2012 // 1 Comment

If you've ever wondered whether people secretly judge each other based on the contents of their bookshelves, a recent art exhibit in NYC shows that the answer is yes. "What the Book" is the brain [Read More ...]

The Book That Can’t Wait (video)

19 June, 2012 // 14 Comments

One downside of paper books is that through normal use they tend to grow old and die. I even have a small collection of books which I don't dare touch because they'd fall apart. Impermanence is a [Read More ...]

The Art of Google Books

11 February, 2012 // 4 Comments

If you like to flip through The Unbound Book (my book art photoblog), then I have treat for you. There's a photoblog over on Tumblr that records and explains scanning errors from the Google Books [Read More ...]