Last week, I featured the Portable Reading Room at the London Art Book Fair 2011. Also making an appearance with a pop-up stall is Publish and be Damned, who run annual self-publishing fairs in London. The Publish and be Damned Soapbox will have new publications by their members, as well as host the launch of [...]
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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
Typographic Paper Sculptures
May 5th, 2011 No Comments
I bring you another paper based marvel. Bianca Chang has crafted these 3-D paper sculptures of letters, laying subtly different HAND-CUT sheets on top of each other – no laser cutting or 3-D printing here. They have a marvelous depth that draws the eye in and around the texture created by the layering effect, which [...]
Tags: inspiration · making · pop-up
Paper Animations by Andersen M Studio
April 19th, 2011 No Comments
Andersen M Studio has created this amazing stop motion animation for Star Alliance airlines, using boarding passes that transform into a intricate paper representation of their destination, through some nifty cutting and creasing. They’ve also animated scenes from Maurice Gee’s novel, Going West, using the actual pages from the book. This one beggars belief. These [...]
Tags: book · cut-out · inspiration · making · pop-up
Print / cut / fold
April 12th, 2011 No Comments
In my last post, I looked at some of the innovative ways eBooks have been made, using a variety of materials. Today, I’m focusing on some interesting printing and layering techniques that I’ve found, in a bid to inspire budding bookleteers. Xavier Antin has constructed an extraordinary printing chain made from a stencil duplicator (1880), [...]
Tags: bookleteer · cut-out · inspiration · making · pop-up
Computational Architecture: Cardboard Columns
March 2nd, 2011 No Comments
Another gem which has been featured on www.fastcodesign.com, and something my brain is still trying to recover from. Created by Michael Hansmeyer, and constructed from 2700 laser cut sheets of cardboard with wooden cores, these columns were spawned by an algorithm fed into a computer, forming “computational architecture”, with up to 16 MILLION facets. [...]
Tags: cut-out · inspiration · making · pop-up
Pop-up Book Film Projection?
February 4th, 2011 1 Comment
Rather than a Zine Highlight, I thought I’d share with you an astounding book/film/theatre piece that I’ve just spied (courtesy of www.fastcodesign.com – which features some brilliant stuff), which Karen Martin will surely love, after her exploration of Pop – up books and book / technology hybrids. “The Ice Book” , by Davy and Kristin [...]
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Zine Review – Burger Zines!
November 4th, 2010 No Comments
These extraordinary creations are individually handmade by Stephanie Anderson, cut from paper and card. Each zine is a different burger with varying paper ingredients, and is limited to 20 copies. I suppose these are as far away from the typical imaginings of what a zine is, but innovation and creativity do tend to rock the [...]
Tags: bookleteer · making · pop-up · zines
How can you have a pop-up book on the iPad?
July 28th, 2010 2 Comments
This was the question I typed into Google as I wondered how the iPad, Kindle and other eBook readers (or rather, developers of eBooks for these platforms) might accommodate the tangible properties of books such as size, paper type, pop-up illustrations and so on, that vary from book to book and make paper books such [...]
Tags: augmented · electronic · inspiration · pop-up
Sneaky Peek at Alice’s Desk
July 21st, 2010 1 Comment
While Alice was out getting lunch I took some sneaky photos of the 3-dimensional illustrations she’s been working on. The drawings for these come from the ones made in Brixton and Coventry for the Empty Shops Network tour. Parts of them have then been cut out, folded and re-attached to give a diorama feel. I’d [...]
Tags: drawing · experiments · inspiration · pop-up
Seven Days in Seven Dials
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
This week bookleteer has been supporting the project Seven Days in Seven Dials: a week in the life of London’s Culture Quarters organised by Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network. Over the past days more than 30 young staff of 9 arts organisations based in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London have been working to [...]
Tags: eBooks · emptyshops · pop-up · residency · StoryCubes
Pop-up eBook update..
June 24th, 2010 1 Comment
I’m only at Proboscis one day a week and what with blog posts and organising the Pitch Up & Publish on Augmented Reading my own eBook-and-Story-Cube-as-object experiments have taken a bit of a back seat. This week though I found time to work on my pop-up eBook and have now completed the two eBooks that [...]
Tags: eBooks · inspiration · pop-up
Pop-up Progress
June 9th, 2010 1 Comment
My pop-up pig picture inserted into an eBook As you can see from these pictures I’ve started playing around with fitting my individual pop-up pictures into the more linear procedure of a book. I’ve used the quite unimaginative title of A Walk in the Country to provide a narrative to the pictures. Butterfly and Tree [...]
Tags: eBooks · experiments · inspiration · pop-up
Prototyping Pop-up eBooks
June 2nd, 2010 2 Comments
My tests for making a pop-up eBook. Inspired by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhardt (who I wrote about here) I’ve been working on making a pop-up eBook. I chose the loose theme of ‘A walk in the country’ and selected pop-ups from Robert Sabuda’s website to fit this concept. All of the pop-ups are labelled [...]
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