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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'inspiration'
The Portable Reading Room
September 14th, 2011 1 Comment
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
Diffusion Archive Highlight – City As Material: An Overview
August 3rd, 2011 No Comments
A document of the five City As Material events we ran in London last year, this eBook collects the blog posts penned after each event, a selection of photographs taken, as well as an introduction to the project and our motives for undertaking it. Created in place of an individual eBook for Sonic Geographies, due [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookreader · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · pitch in & publish
Sketchbook Zines – Ying-Chieh Liu
July 26th, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve found Etsy to be a great source when looking for remarkable zines, often not featured anywhere else; either a sign that unfortunately, no-one has picked up on them yet, or the author is simply satisfied with creating and making their zines available to whoever stumbles upon them. Certainly the latter can make the reader [...]
Tags: drawing · inspiration · sketchbook · sketches · zines
The Book Barge
July 20th, 2011 No Comments
I’ve just discovered The Book Barge, a canal boat that acts as a floating bookshop and workshop space, currently touring around the U.K. The interior looks amazing, and not least of all, inviting – perfect for a relaxed perusal of its shelves. Normally moored in Staffordshire, in May it set off on a six-month tour [...]
Tags: book · bookshops · inspiration · pop-up
Book Sculpture Portraits
July 13th, 2011 No Comments
Knowing my penchant for unusual pieces created from books and paper, Giles turned me on to the extraordinary work of artist Nicholas Galanin, who hand-carves 3D portraits from lengthy volumes, as if they were inverted sculpture blocks. The source models for these surreal, paper death masks were first captured with a 3D scanner to produce [...]
Tags: book · cut-out · inspiration · paper sculpture · pop-up
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Pharmaceutical Cubes by Kenneth Goldsmith
July 8th, 2011 No Comments
Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founder of UbuWeb, created this series of six StoryCubes, each inscribed with the side effects of a certain prescription drug. The text is rendered in illegible 1-point type, so that the words become texture – some resembling the grooves in a vinyl record, another a peculiar lilac coloured static noise. Kenneth [...]
Tags: inspiration · poetry · StoryCubes
Stop Sharpening Your Knives
July 6th, 2011 No Comments
An anthology series of poetry and illustration, Stop Sharpening Your Knives has been around for a good few years, and is currently accepting submissions for its 5th edition. I had the good fortune to hear a performance by one of its editors, poet Jack Underwood, at the launch night of the London Word Festival a [...]
Tags: illustration · inspiration · poetry · zines
Video games vs Penguin Classics
June 23rd, 2011 No Comments
Olly Moss (a hugely talented illustrator and graphic designer, which I’ve had the good fortune to recently discover) created these redesigned covers for a number of his favourite video games, inspired by Romek Marber’s classic designs for Penguin Books in the 1960′s. This seemingly unsuited clash of mediums works so well, no doubt aided by [...]
Tags: book · design · inspiration
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Ancient Lights, City Shadows
June 17th, 2011 No Comments
A collaborative eBook produced as a result of our City As Material: Skyline event, Ancient Lights, City Shadows features mixed media collected on the day and material we were inspired to create after our wander through the city. Adorning the cover is one of Martin Fidler’s intricate skyline drawings, opposed with an ambiguous photograph of [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookreader · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · photography
Writer App
June 14th, 2011 No Comments
Instead of featuring a publication today, I’m looking at something which might aid in creating one. Writer, by Information Architects, is an ultra minimal word processing application for Mac and iPad, designed to hold your attention purely on the task at hand – writing. It has no formatting options, one font, one size, and can [...]
Tags: creative writing · inspiration · writing
“Four Twenty” Zine by Alexander McLuckie
June 8th, 2011 No Comments
Another zine from Holy Ghost, this time from one of its founders, photographer Alexander McLuckie. A 20 page, black and white photography zine, each copy of Four Twenty has a uniquely coloured cover in various vivid shades. Check the image of a bunch of them stacked in a box – a paper rainbow! Available via [...]
Tags: inspiration · photography · zine
“False Dichotomy” by Junyi Wu
June 3rd, 2011 No Comments
Whilst perusing Etsy for interesting zines, I was taken aback by the amazing False Dictotomy by illustrator Junyi Wu, filled with sombre, yet beautiful black and white artwork, paired with scrawled passages from the work of poet Emily Dickinson. The pen and ink illustrations of flora are set against sparse white backgrounds that highlight their [...]
Tags: illustration · inspiration · making · zines
