From the monthly archives:

October 2010

Thomas Allen AV

by Dan on October 28, 2010

An AV introduction to the work of artist Thomas Allen who takes vintage paperbacks and cuts, creases, and crimps them into incredible pulp pop-ups:

(thx Jacob)

(And Small World of Happy Coincidences:  The remix of Sarah Vaughan that accompanies the video is by Max Sedgley an old pal from university)

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Type Case

by Dan on October 27, 2010

Martin Bircher’s oddly hypnotic art installation Type Case uses a printers’ type case and 125 LED lights to display the latest headlines:

There’s more about the project here.

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Don’t Go To The Castle

October 27, 2010

Kate Beaton’s Dracula at Hark, a Vagrant!: Tweet

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Midweek Miscellany

October 26, 2010

Bespoke — Richard Weston, AKA Ace Jet 170, on the book designs for the soon-to-be-launched Bespoke Editions: Bespoke Editions is a one-off edition press; offering beautiful custom-made classic books, printed on demand and hand-finished to order. Personalised and unique, each edition will be made using specially selected cover papers and finishes… The editions will be [...]

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Something for the Weekend

October 22, 2010

Equations — Lauren Panepinto’s stunning op-art covers for a new trilogy of novels by Simon Morden, published by Orbit. From the Orbit blog: These online cover images truly don’t do the packages justice — each book has a single bright colour and in the printed version that will actually be a fluorescent ink. Spot gloss lamination [...]

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