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PHOTOS: Check Out This Beautiful Book Art

Posted 06.18.2013 | Books

Ekaterina Panikanova's beautiful book art is absolutely mesmerizing and we can't stop looking at it. Her work was recently shown at the Z2O Gallery in...

Dusty Old Books Get A New Lease On Life As Works Of Art

Ecofabulous | Posted 05.08.2013 | HuffPost Home

Don't count those bird watching encyclopedias out just yet.

WATCH: Art Of The Bookbinder

Posted 03.22.2013 | Books

Herbert Weitz, bookbinder to the stars, is a great character, specializing in what he describes as "Fine... hand... leather... bookbinding" for famous...

Most Amazing Guide Book Ever?

Posted 02.12.2013 | Books

There are hundreds of travel guide books available, but none is quite as beautiful or human as Iranian-New Zealander artist Nabil Sabio Azadi's For Yo...

PHOTOS: Book Artist Recreates Scenes From Classics

Posted 12.11.2012 | Books

We know a lot of people have mixed feelings about using books to create art, but we couldn't help but fall in love with Jodi Brown's book art that cre...

Art. Books. Art Books. Book Art: An Embarrassment of Riches

Jane Chafin | Posted 12.23.2012 | Arts
Jane Chafin

I have lived most of my adult life near the intersection of two worlds -- as an artist, diarist, voracious reader, art-gallery/art-book-store director and blogger about art and books. You could say it is my happy place -- and for the last two weeks my proverbial cup runneth over!

PHOTOS: Doodling On Famous Authors

Michael Daye | Posted 10.14.2012 | Books
Michael Daye

I found I had a whole host of these postcards of famous writers in my room and before long I'd set myself the task of covering every last one with my scribblings.

PHOTOS: 12 Awesome Sketches Of Famous Authors

Joshua Landsman | Posted 10.06.2012 | Books
Joshua Landsman

The sketchbook has been a very satisfying way for me to revisit these books and writers. I really do love them -- I feel like they've had a tremendous influence on who I am and how I think.

Rejected Covers: Jarrod Taylor Discusses "Yok" By Tim Davys

Posted 08.02.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

The Art Of Google Books Mistakes

Krissy Wilson | Posted 09.30.2012 | Books
Krissy Wilson

Google Books is more than a bag of words. It's full of anomalies -- digital and analog signs of use. Search through texts in the public domain and you'll find all kinds of distortion, color changes, misplaced autolinks, and, frequently, the hands of an employee.

PHOTOS: Beautiful Book Posters From The Turn Of The Century

Posted 07.27.2012 | Books

According to the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery site, art posters were invented in 1893 by Edward Penfield. He created an advertisement for...

PHOTOS: I Design A Cover For Every Book I Read

Jenny Volvovski | Posted 09.22.2012 | Books
Jenny Volvovski

I started this project because when I am 90 (if I live that long), I want to have a library in my house (if there are still books) where every book jacket is designed by me. That is my long-term plan.

PHOTOS: Literary Maze On Display At London 2012 Festival

Posted 07.19.2012 | Books

As part of the London 2012 Festival, Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo sculpted a maze made out of books. The instillation, called aMAZ...

Rejected Covers: 'The McSweeney's Book of Politics & Musicals'

Posted 07.16.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

Rejected Covers: "Gold" By Chris Cleave

Posted 07.06.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

WATCH: Inspirational Book Sculpture Video

Posted 06.21.2012 | Books

Rather than taking the traditional route and simply printing catalogs for their fall list, Hachette Australia has put together a stunning and inspirat...

Amazing Sculptures Made Out Of Books

Posted 06.20.2012 | Books

Isaac G. Salazar's work is a thing of beauty, carving new words out of old books. He sometimes sells his works on Etsy. As for why books, he explai...

Rejected Covers: See How 'They Eat Puppies, Don't They?' Might Have Looked

Posted 05.04.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

10 Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

Flavorpill | Emily Temple | Posted 06.30.2012 | Travel

Here at Flavorpill, we’re pretty big book nerds. We’re such big book nerds that what we’d really like, more than anything, is to live in a house...

Beauty and the Book: Page-Turning Art

MutualArt | Posted 06.19.2012 | Arts
MutualArt

Paper has also made a comeback, but not in the traditional sense -- artists such as Louisa Boyd, Brian Dettmer and Su Blackwell are using books as a medium, lending a novel perspective (pun intended) to the concept of artistic narrative.

Seeing People Through The Books They Own

Posted 04.06.2012 | Home

Books not only provide an outlet to escape reality, but often actually provide a link to the relationships with the people closest to us. For Germany-...

11 Gorgeous Children's Book Illustrations

Martin Salisbury | Posted 05.09.2012 | Books
Martin Salisbury

We examine the role of the picture book in introducing children to the visual arts as well as language, and consider important issues such as the appropriateness of certain subjects and styles of illustration for children.

IMAGES: Police Sketches Of Book Characters

Posted 02.13.2012 | Books

If you live vicariously though your books, you may find it maddening that it's impossible to determine exactly how an author intended your beloved cha...

It's Art, But Is It a Book?

Jules Siegel | Posted 03.31.2012 | Books
Jules Siegel

The works depicted here will be in museums and collections while Masters: Book Arts will be in libraries. Masters: Book Arts is a collaborative, corporate work of art.

More on Artists and the Future of Books: An Interview With Kirk Pedersen, Founder of Zero+ Publishing

Jane Chafin | Posted 03.20.2012 | Arts
Jane Chafin

2012-01-19-artsscreenshot.jpg The good news is that the future of books, having lost their monopoly as conveyors of information, lies in aesthetics. There will always be a market for interesting, beautiful books -- and artists are, of course, leading the way.