The Lost Art of Paste-Up (video)
Back before we used computers to lay out the text of a book, magazine, or newspaper, publishers used various methods to manually lay out text before...Continue reading
Category: Books as Art
How to Rescue a Water-Damaged Book: A Short, Handy Primer (video)
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...Continue reading
The Lost Art of Fore-Edge Artwork (video)
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...Continue reading
Battle of Hydraulic Press v Book Ends in Pyrrhic Victory (video)
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...Continue reading
The Map of Fictional London Will Keep You From Getting Lost in the Story
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...Continue reading
JungleBook: Simple Kindle eBook Cover Analysis
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...Continue reading
The Book Cover that Judges You (video)
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...Continue reading
Artist Backs Up His Copy of 1984 The Old-Fashioned Way
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...Continue reading
What The Book Interactive Exhibit Reveals What People Really Feel About Books
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...Continue reading
The Book That Can’t Wait (video)
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...Continue reading
The Art of Google Books
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...Continue reading