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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Merchandise: Geeky Tablet Cases
Geekify sells hand made covers for all your favorite gadgets. Most of them are inspired by films or video games. Some of my personal favorites include the cover inspired by Skyrim (Oghma Infinium), The Hobbit (Red Book of Westmarch), The Neverending Story, and the Myst linking book.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Papercraft: Christmas Book
360° Degree Christmas Book by Japanese artist Yusuke Oono
"Oono has expanded his 360° book project to celebrate the festive season. The three-dimensional panoramic structure references the format of a book and pushes it to become a new, expansive platform for narrative and story telling."
Friday, December 14, 2012
Posters: The Greatest Adventure
"The Greatest Adventure: A Tribute to The Hobbit" by Jeff Langevin
Available for purchase at Society6.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Video: Pale Blue Dot
"Pale Blue Dot" by ORDER
In my opinion, Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot is one of the most resonant pieces of popular science literature ever published in the English language, and I'm delighted to see another fan of Sagan's work pay tribute to the book.
A visual response to Carl Sagan's famed 'Pale Blue Dot' piece where he muses on our planet's appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. The most distant photograph ever taken of Earth.
A personal project designed and created in After effects with extensive sound work created in addition to the music and spoken words from the Sagan archive. Had wanted to bring visuals to something by Sagan for some time and finished this after working on it periodically over the last 3 months.
Papercraft: Pop-Up Stories
"You know those moments when you finish a piece, stand back to take a final look and say "Holy crap, I didn't know I could do that!" Yeah, this was one of those moments. I've never done faces, never done so many figures that needed to look like someone specific and was honestly wondering if I'd have to call the client and tell her I didn't think I could do it. But, as it was a Christmas present for her Granddaughter, I gave it a go and I'm really proud of it! Totally doing the happy dance right now."
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Street Art: The Reader
"The Reader" by Read More
On exhibit at Ditch Projects October 6 – October 27, 2012
"Read More’s work often appears dry and aggressive. It is calculated and crisp, loudly shouting at you from even the smallest of pieces; it does not seem to leave much room for subtlety. Often seemingly unfinished, it pulls at you with its details, the layers of paper and color creating a jumbled conversation of disjointed thoughts. It is a record of daily events, a visual diary of confusion."
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Posters: Explore
"Explore" by Ricky Linn
Created for Books For Africa
"My print for HelpInk is now up live! Super honored to be asked to contribute to a great cause. Please purchase a print if you like it as proceeds do go towards charity."Books For Africa is an organization with a simple mission, to end the book famine in Africa.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Installation: Diagnosis
"Diagnosis" by Jena Priebe
On exhibit at “The Last Bookstore” in downtown
Los Angeles
"After my final assessment of your condition, it is in my best judgment that you are suffering from severe dementia and hallucinations. While reviewing your brain scans I found some bizarre irregularities….
What is it? What exactly are you seeing? You say there are books flying off of the shelf?
…your condition may be much worse than I anticipated…"
Lego Creation: Dante's Inferno
Via: UK Telegraph
Romanian artist Mihai Marius Mihu has created yet another Lego masterpiece. This time, he spent seven months recreating each of the nine circles of hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The nine dioramas are composed of nearly forty thousand individual pieces.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Interview: Jonathan Bender
Jonathan Bender, author of LEGO: A Love Story, speaking at Google
There are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a master model builder for The LEGO Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks. What is it about the ubiquitous, brightly colored toys that makes them so hard for everyone to put down?
In search of answers and adventure, Jonathan Bender sets out to explore the quirky world of adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs) while becoming a builder himself. As he participates in challenges at fan conventions, searches for the largest private collection in the United States, and visits LEGO headquarters (where he was allowed into the top secret set vault), he finds his LEGO journey twinned with a second creative endeavor—to have a child. His two worlds intertwine as he awaits the outcome: Will he win a build competition or bring a new fan of LEGO into the world? Like every really good love story, this one has surprises—and a happy ending.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Installation: Withdrawn from Circulation
"Withdrawn from Circulation" by Wendy Kawabata, 2009.
Books all folded in the same way to create an impressive installation.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Sculpture: Zuckerberg Portrait
"Mark Zuckerberg 'Facebook' Portrait" by Hong Yi
Yi carved the likeness of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg into the sides of thirty-six copies of Game of Thrones, the thickest books she could find. If you like this, share this on your Facebook wall or 'like' her on Facebook!
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Interview: Maurice Sendak
Children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, of Where the Wild Things Are fame, died yesterday. You can read his obituary on the New York Times. Most notable among his achievements is bring a darker tone to children's books. Do yourself a favor and watch his interview on the Colbert Report (parts 1 and 2 above), he was a witty, delightful curmudgeon up until his last days.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Illustration: LoTR Book Covers
LoTR Book Covers by Eminina
My latest college project was to redesign my favourite book covers! These are just the main cover designs, not yet made to look like books. I thought they’d be better displayed like this for internet viewing.
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