Leijonstedt
Art of the book
‘Once Upon a Good Time’ by John B. Jaeger
MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
Full leather fine binding with secret compartment for engagement ring box
>> READ THE FULL STORY ABOUT THE MAKING OF THIS BOOK
Story by John B. Jaeger
Illustrations by Emily Cunningham
Size of the book closed:
150 x 190 mm
Materials:
brown goatskin, painted parchment, palladium leaf, raw silk, semi-precious stones (amethyst)
Techniques:
blind-tooling, raised palladium leaf onlays, edges gilt on the rough, hand-sewn silk headbands, painted and gilt endpapers, blind-tooled leather doublures, raw silk covered drop-back box with individually set stone mosaic, a hidden compartment with bespoke engagement ring box.
In private collection
Posted on 8 March 2010
ABC @ BIAD
An Artist's Book Collective @ BIRMINGHAM INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN
a conversation over tea
opsi i deleted it cuz i thought i had it in the wrong place :s
anyways, this is my design silk screen print. the plan is to experiment further with it once its printed. work over the top with acrylic and ink, and digitally. all color saved on serperate layers so thats the seperation done i think :) any crit on how to make it better or any suggestions for if it dosnt work as a silk screen.
Posted on 11 February 2010
Free Water-Based Screen Printing Workshops in NSW and QLD
Free Water-Based Screen Printing Workshops
Dave Fortune is our screenprinting guru here at UWE. Any book artists who are considering using water-based screenprinting might want to join one of these free workshops:
Art educators and Printmakers are invited to register now for Dave Fortune’s Sydney &…
Posted on 23 January 2010
BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE
Beautiful/Decay Magazine Art & Design Blog
Culinary Fine Arts
At the SFMOMA’s Rooftop Coffee Bar, baker Caitlin Williams Freeman has found a fun way to pay homage to the artists featured in the museum. If you’re in the area, visit the museum, then swing by the Coffee Bar to munch on pastries of art you just saw! Wayne Thiebaud: Katharina Fritsch Jeff [...]
Posted on 11 March 2010
Heaven & Earth
My life, my art, my family - and whatever I find interesting...
CON-TEXT at Iceland
CON-TEXT’s artists’ books exhibition in Norræna húsið in Reykjavik from February 27th to March 28th.
Posted on 20 February 2010
Peter Tudhope - Artist
Peter Tudhope is a painter from Girvan, South Ayrshire (South west coast of Scotland) is represented by High St Gallery, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. He has been making art for 42 years, you can see more of his work at www.petertudhope.blogspot.com Peter paints landscape and figurative work, mainly in oils. His work leans towards a [...]
Posted on 10 March 2010
The Sign of the Owl
Book Art—Artists' Books—Bookworks
Second Encyclopedia of Tlön
One of my knowledgeable readers (Jack Ginsburg) has alerted me to the fact that Joshua Heller has a wonderful interactive web site about the Second Encyclopedia of Tlön (see my last post). It comes up automatically when you go to the Joshua Heller Rare Books web site. Once the page that shows the full encyclopedia has loaded, click on ‘The Books’ link that is in the black banner. The set of volumes will suddenly appear in a fanned-out line and if you mouse over one of the volumes it begins to pull out from the ’shelf’ at which point you can click on it to bring it forward. Clicking again will open up a window with a description and several page spreads from that volume (use the “Instructions” link to find out more on how to navigate). The pages shown on Heller’s site are often different from those on the Encyclopedia’s own site (accessible by clicking the images in my last post) so between the two, you can get a nice sense of the contents.
The more I explore the opus, the more I realize how much it is not just a conceptual and visual encyclopedia, but also an encyclopedic experiment in all sorts of different image-making techniques. Printing on everything from creamy handmade paper to phone book pages, using everything from offset printing to wood-type letterpress, the books use overprinting, negative image printing, collage, digital image manipulation, text-as-image, and more to create the wide-ranging stylistic interpretations that makes up the Encyclopedia.
Post from: The Sign of the Owl
Second Encyclopedia of Tlön
Posted on 24 July 2009
