In New York City you can find the Secret Bookshop Brazenhead Books. That is, if you know where to find it. It is tucked away, somewhere, upstairs… They’ll let you in if you ring the doorbell. The owner is really friendly. But… you first have to find the doorbell…
A film from the Etsy blog, made by Andrew David Watson.
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OK, I’m sorry. I know you probably have seen this before. It has been all around the internet, I know, I know… But I only saw it yesterday, and I’m still wowing, so I simply couldn’t resist posting this. So there you go.
He has been called “the book surgeon” and “the book slicer”, but his name is Brian Dettmer. You could say he’s a sculptor, making three dimensional objects, but at the same time he’s making images and making texts appear, so perhaps he is also a painter or a poet. Or a dada-remix-archeologist.
This is what he has to say about his working method:
In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the surface of the book and dissect through it from the front.
I work with knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each layer while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose alternate histories and memories.
My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.
Two videos: an interview and a presentation of work with comments by the artist himself.
One more video, worth checking out, which I couldn’t embed (for some reason?): Find it here.
What did I say? Amazing work, isn’t it?
For more information find an interview with Brian Dettmer on www.mymodernmet.com or visit his own site at briandettmer.com
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A series of excerpts from “Big Think” interviews, full of advice for everybody who wants to write (be it a novel like everybody, or a screenplay like the rest…). These are the big guys, people: Salman Rushdie, John Irving, Jonathan Safran Foer, Yann Martel, Bret Easton Ellis, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood and more…
Head on over to the Big Think site for the complete series, or check out this first one by Salman Rushdie, with the very sensible title “Inspiration is Nonsense!”, right here.
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We’ve had bookshelf porn on this blog, now it’s time for bookshelf voyeurism.
The site “Designers & Books” gives us a peek into the libraries of some 50-and-counting more-or-less famous designers from around the world (well… Actually, at the moment they have one from Finland, one from Japan, five from the UK and 49 from the USA, so… I guess they’ll have to do some travelling soon…)
The designers show us which books have had an impact on their life and design practice. A lot of the people included are architects or product designers, but there are twenty-or-so graphic designers as well.
So. Do you want to know what Paula Scher is reading? John Maeda? Michael Beirut? Milton Glaser even? Of course you do! It’s silly, I know. But can you resist taking a peek at the bookshelves when you are visiting someone? No you can’t…. Of course not.
What are you waiting for? www.designersandbooks.com
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What an amazing book…
Apparently the publishers had a hell of a time finding a printer who believed he could make this. Eventually they ended up in Belgium (Yeey, Belgium!) at Die Keure. And if that wasn’t enough, the book was also designed by a Belgian graphic designer, Sara De Bondt who works from London… (again: Yeey!)
Below, I guess it is some kind of book trailer, showing the reactions of the public. Which speak volumes… (sorry, couldn’t resist).
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer - Public Reactions from Visual Editions on Vimeo.
And now, to the bookstore everybody!
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Mr. Chip Kidd is an author, editor and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers and his love for Batman.
And yes, I do know the out-of-focus figurine below probably isn’t Batman.
Check out the video for an introduction…
CHIP KIDD from gary nadeau on Vimeo.
As a bonus: a small selection of his book covers…
More info here.
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Why, Oh why, didn’t I think of this?
Books (I love books). Color (I love color). Textures (I love textures).
It’s simple, it’s beautiful, it’s….
Damn!
I should have thought of this…
But someone called Stanford Kay did.
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