Guy Laramee has produced these spectacular sculptures carved from old tomes, excavating covers and pages to build intricate panoramas of natural landscapes and ancient structures. A wonderful paradox of taking away to create, they look as if they have been unearthed, rather than meticulously composed. Mountain valleys and steppes, an idealised japanese garden complete with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'inspiration'
Book Sculpture Panoramas
January 17th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: art · book · inspiration · paper sculpture
‘The Beast’ – An animated interactive poem
January 4th, 2012 No Comments
Hello again, welcome back. A little treat to spur on 2012 now, with an animated interactive poem by agency Studio Juice, written by singer Laura Marling and illustrated by artist collective Shynola, entitled The Beast. Taken from the song of the same name, from her latest album A Creature I Don’t Know, it describes the [...]
Tags: augmented · inspiration · poetry
Material Conditions – Launching 15/12/11
December 9th, 2011 No Comments
On December 15th we are launching a new series of eBook commissions called Material Conditions. This series asks professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts. The contributors [...]
Tags: bookleteer · diffusion · eBooks · events · inspiration · material conditions · news · ppod · Short Run Printing
The Unedited Author by Kevin Harris
December 5th, 2011 No Comments
The unedited author by Kevin Harris Most writers have one or two trusted readers-of-drafts, critical friends who are relied on to make suggestions and offer that gentle critique that we didn’t know we needed. And the closer we get to conventional publication, the more likely we are to find ourselves working with an editor who [...]
Tags: bookleteering · editing · experiments · inspiration · learning · publishing on demand · unedited
Being 18 in the past and today by Katrina Siliprandi
November 29th, 2011 No Comments
Being 18 in the past and today: using Bookleteer for a museum-based project with young people by Katrina Siliprandi Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service Young people working on ‘Project 18’ carried out and recorded 39 interviews in people’s homes, at Norwich Castle museum and in residential care homes. They amalgamated quotes from these interviews with [...]
Tags: bookleteering · community · feedback · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · libraries · tangible souvenirs
Project 18
November 18th, 2011 No Comments
Project 18, a collaboration between Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and MAP, looked at what it’s like to be 18 now, and what it was like to be 18 in the past. This eBook, uploaded earlier this week to Diffusion, is a collection of stories gathered by young people from some of the older participants [...]
Tags: eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · museums · sharing
Agencies of Engagement – A creative thinking and doing tool
November 16th, 2011 No Comments
In April 2011, Proboscis began a collaboration with the Centre for Applied Research in Education Technologies (CARET) and Crucible at the University of Cambridge, on a research project exploring the nature of groups and group behaviours within the context of the university’s communities and the design of software platforms for collaboration. Our output of this [...]
Tags: eBooks · engagement · inspiration · inspiring uses
Sewn Paper Sculptures
October 24th, 2011 No Comments
If you’ve been following this blog even remotely, you might have sussed my interest in papercraft and recycled materials, possibly partly due to my own artistic limitations. I’m in awe of artists who can do what I can’t – produce highly visual and sculptural pieces, rather than simply text, and particularly transform paper, something I [...]
Tags: hand-made · inspiration · paper · paper sculpture
Psychedelic Paper Sculptures
October 5th, 2011 No Comments
Jen Stark creates fantastical, multicoloured paper sculptures which transgress the humble medium, composing simple sheets into three-dimensional works of art using every spectrum of the rainbow. The intricate layers, the shapes they form, and the sheer vibrancy of her work are mesmerising – what’s more, they’re all hand-cut. Perhaps it’s not wise to delve too [...]
Tags: design · inspiration · paper · paper sculpture · three-dimensional
London Art Book Fair Picks
September 30th, 2011 No Comments
I paid a visit to the London Art Book Fair last Saturday at the Whitechapel Gallery, and have finally got around to writing a brief piece about it now – we’ve been swamped in the studio. Along with large publishing houses, the fair played host to a number of small publishers and unique handcrafted artists’ [...]
Tags: events · handmade · inspiration · publishing · zines
‘Sense and the City’ at the London Transport Museum
September 19th, 2011 No Comments
An enjoyable exhibition called Sense and the City is now on at the London Transport Museum, which explores new ways how our understanding, experience and perception of the city is continually re-shaped by the rapid changes occurring in technology and IT. The same categories of space and time are radically put into question as the [...]
Tags: city as material · events · inspiration · technology
The Portable Reading Room
September 14th, 2011 1 Comment
Featured in the upcoming London Art Book Fair 2011, held at the Whitechapel Gallery, is The Portable Reading Room. Brainchild of Wild Pansy Press, this flat-pack pop-up booth acts as a gallery, bookshop, social space and studio, and will be debuted from the 23rd to the 25th of September. It’s an intriguing idea – a [...]
Tags: city as material · events · inspiration · library · workshop
Sorrows of the Moon: A Journey Through London
September 12th, 2011 No Comments
Hi everybody, my name is Elena and I have been working as an intern at Proboscis since mid June. On Proboscis’ website I posted some reflections of mine initially taking inspiration from a visual essay I am composing on the wall of the studio. The visual essay combines some impressions sprung from the observation of [...]
Tags: book · city as material · inspiration · writing
Upcoming Zine Fairs
August 31st, 2011 No Comments
I’m giving a shout out to two upcoming zine fairs, both held on the 25th of September 2011 – an unfortunate clash, alas. “THE BRISTOL COMIC AND ZINE FAIR When: Sunday 25th September 2011, 12pm – 6pm Where: Start the Bus, 7-9 Baldwin Street, Bristol, BS1 1RU (map) FREE ENTRY The Bristol Comic and Zine Fair [...]
Tags: comics · events · inspiration · making · zine fair · zines
Drawn In
August 8th, 2011 No Comments
I’ve been following Julia Rothman’s excellent blog, Book By Its Cover for a good while now, and first heard about the concept behind Drawn In months back, but for some reason its actual release evaded me. I’ve re-discovered it now, and immediately snapped it up from Amazon, as we’re planning a new series looking into [...]
Tags: book · creative process · creativity · inspiration · sketchbook
