I was immediately attracted by Save the Words website—lots of color and typographic variety and a humorous audio track. If you are a lover of words, you will be too. Each year hundreds of w...
It took Wataru Itou, a young art major at a Tokyo university, four years to construct this amazing castle , complete with electrical lights and a moving train, made completely of paper!
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2009/07/umi-no-ue-no-oshiro-castle-on-ocean.html
The libraries of my childhood were two. One, a modern affair, was a 10-minute walk from my home, situated on a corner of the neighborhood public park. I was 12-years old when ground was brok...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-old-libraries.html
An industrial film, ca. 1961, showing the work of bookbinders and the final steps in the process of manufacturing printed books. From the "Americans at Work" series. Courtesy of The Prelinger Arc...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2009/06/mechanization-of-bookbinding.html
Wish I lived close by and could see this exhibit. THE SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR THE BOOK exhibit, ONCE UPON A BOOK , May 4 - Aug 07, 2009, is their second in a series of children's book exhibition...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2009/05/exhibit-once-upon-book.html
A high-resolution version of this trailer can be seen here . While looking for information about folded book forms I came across this trailer for Green Fuse Films' current documentary project, B...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2008/03/origami-documentary-between-folds.html
Good grief! Where does the time go? I am referring not only to my absence but to the time I have spent today reading about a subject with which I have a basic knowledge but about which I never h...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2008/03/book-arts-copyright.html
No, perfect binding does not refer to a flawlessly bound book but rather to a method of securing loose leaves into a solid text block by means of an adhesive rather than by sewing, stitching,...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/09/httpphotojojo.html
Interesting idea, but I cannot imagine being comfortable in this chair, especially when loaded with books ... books hitting the back of one's legs and where does one rest one's arms? I think of t...
This is the first book I bought on digital publishing. Even though it is not a recent publication, it is general enough to still be a good introduction. FROM THE FRONT FLAP > CONTRARY to fu...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/08/digital-book-design-and-publishing.html
Noriko Ambe meticulously cuts, and layers hundreds of pieces of Yupo, a synthetic, translucent paper made in Japan, her biggest work having a depth of 1300 sheets of paper. The shapes that ...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/07/noriko-ambe-linear-actions-cutting.html
Need a very special card for someone? The Canon 3D Papercraft site has a number of nice pop-ups that you can make. Just download the free instructions, print out the parts and get to work. ...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/07/pop-up-cards-to-make.html
There are many ways to alter a book. One of the most basic is marking. Most of the pages on the Altered Books site have been altered in this manner, using basic mark-making tools and materi...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/07/altered-books-markings.html
A book lover's dream house, Casa di Libri . Created by sculptor and carver Livio de Marchi, all the furniture, the tables, beds, desks and chairs, incorporate carved book forms. Even the exte...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/07/house-of-books.html
I recently discovered these beautiful examples of coptic stitch and caterpillar binding, by tussenpozen, on the Flickr website. I was surprised to read in her profile that she is ... a young,...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/06/flickr-coptic-binding-tussenpozen.html
An "arty" collage of several photographs of most of the people who attended this get together at CBAS member Margaret Rhein's papermaking studio, Terrapin Mill. Several people from the Indian...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/07/cbas-papermaking-at-terrapin-mill.html
Flickr is a wonderful photo sharing website. Many of the photos are organized into groups or pools. This one, Folk Typography was created to gather together photographs of surprising, origi...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/05/folk-typography.html
Everyone loves to visit artist studios and Alice Balterman's studio, the site of the CBAS study group's May meeting, was no exception. The well-know Cincinnati collage and altered book artist...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/05/cbas-study-group-alice-baltermans.html
> The craft and art of binding books by hand was vividly chronicled in an exhibition at Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Entitled Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand an...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/05/hand-bookbindings-plain-and-simple-to.html
The Cincinnati Book Arts Society (CBAS) is holding its 8th annual exhibit of traditional and contemporary handmade books in the Atrium of the Main Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library from...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/05/litchick-art-of-book-celebrated-in-new.html
Family and friends turned out today, for the official opening reception for Bookworks 8, Cincinnati Book Arts Society 's (CBAS) annual book arts exhibit. It's a highly recommended visit and, if t...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/05/exhibit-bookworks-8-opening.html
I have been traveling the last two months and, regrettably, have missed the last two study groups, the second session of Interlocking and Woven Book Structures, covering Slit/Slot & Other Pap...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/04/study-group-six-needle-coptic-binding.html
I was searching the internet for paper guides I could download on which I could practice my calligraphy when I came across this site. One link leads to another. It’s a resource worth bookma...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/03/cynscribe-directory.html
Kindergarten was created by Friedrich Froebel in the 1830s and grew to become what is now one of the most familiar shared milestones throughout the world. Froebel's kindergarten involved play...
http://theartofthebook.blogspot.com/2007/03/inventing-kindergarten-early-concertina.html
The Toymaker is Marilyn Scott-Waters, a graphic designer, author and illustrator who has a web site of over 200 downloadable paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxes, baskets and bag...