Download E-books Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book PDF

By Jason Thompson

In those pages, Jason Thompson has curated an intensive and inventive diversity of either available upcycled crafts made of books and publication pages and an awesome gallery that comprises thought-provoking and gorgeous works that rework books into art.

The content material contains a wide variety of recommendations and step by step tasks that deconstruct and rebuild books and their elements into specified, upcycled gadgets. The ebook combines in equivalent degree bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and cloth and ornamental arts ideas, besides a hefty dose of experimentation and fun.The attractive high-end presentation and beautiful images make this e-book a pleasant, must-have quantity for any book-loving artist or art-loving e-book collector.

Show description

Read or Download Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book PDF

Similar Crafts books

Knitting the Perfect Fit: Essential Fully Fashioned Shaping Techniques for Designer Results

This is often the 1st publication that delves deeply into simply mastered strategies that may be used to conform and customize any venture. Knitting the right healthy is a useful advisor for someone attracted to studying and perfecting shaping info of their knitting. Acclaimed fashion designer and instructor Melissa Leapman distills one in all her so much in-demand workshops into an authoritative advisor that might support knitters know the way dressmaker info and shaping truly paintings.

Tie-Dye: Dye It, Wear It, Share It

The fashionable TWIST ON TIE-DYE Tie-dye has grown up and resurfaced as certainly one of today’s such a lot encouraged appears to be like. no matter if dip-dye, shibori, ombré, or the conventional circle trend, the hot tackle tie-dye is very clean, trendy, and enjoyable. In Tie-Dye: Dye It, put on It, proportion It, acclaimed dressmaker and artist Shabd Simon-Alexander stocks her suggestions for developing the leading edge types that make her personal hand-dyed assortment so renowned.

The Crocheter's Treasure Chest: 80 Classic Patterns for Tablecloths, Bedspreads, Doilies and Edgings (Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace)

Appealing crocheted goods that more desirable inside furnishing generations in the past are once more within the needlecraft highlight. For this notable choice of vintage crochet styles, needlework authority Mary Carolyn Waldrep has chosen for ultra-modern needleworker a number of beautiful designs that first seemed in now-rare thread-company guide leaflets of the Thirties throughout the '50s.

21 Sensational Patchwork Bags

Those usually are not your mother's purses; they're larger! long past are the times of the elemental black or brown bag that used to be outfitted extra for garage than for variety. This fascinating advisor supplies quilters the opportunity to teach off their abilities, upload a fabulously particular bag to their very own dresser or supply as a present, and research new talents too.

Additional resources for Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book

Show sample text content

Indd 2 textual content Job:01632 identify: fiddling with Books (Rockport) Page:2 12/1/09 11:02:29 AM PLAYING WITH BOOKS the paintings of upcycling, deconstructing, & reimagining the booklet Jason Thompson 001-015 01632. indd three textual content Job:01632 name: fidgeting with Books (Rockport) Page:3 12/1/09 11:02:29 AM 001-015 01632. indd four Job:01632 name: fiddling with Books (Rockport) Page:4 12/4/09 9:35:57 AM introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1 2 three getting all started: fold, mutilate, staple & spindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eight tasks to play with: novel principles for artists & bibliophiles . . . . . . . . . . . sixteen gallery: reimaging the e-book . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 contents artist listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a hundred forty five concerning the writer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 001-015 01632. indd five textual content Job:01632 name: fiddling with Books (Rockport) Page:5 12/1/09 11:03:04 AM 001-015 01632. indd 6 Job:01632 identify: fiddling with Books (Rockport) Page:6 12/1/09 11:03:12 AM W ho between us doesn’t love books? My lifelong curiosity all started as a small baby listening attentively to my moth- er analyzing bedtime tales through Dr. Seuss, Margaret clever Brown, and Maurice Sendak. Books were part of my own existence ever for the reason that: As a bookbinder, I’m surrounded through them and examine myself greater trained and extra inventive as a result of my love for books and bookish issues. i found bookbinding rather accidentally. two decades in the past, I met a Rhode Island institution of layout graduate who discovered bookbinding firsthand whereas apprenticing in Assisi, Italy, in a small store simply off the most Piazza. She studied fine binding and built small clean journals to promote to travelers who occurred upon the picturesque studio. On her go back to New England, she taught me the craft, and that i fell in love with the process—and along with her. these preliminary bookbinding experiments, conducted in our small windfall, Rhode Island, condominium, are the single classes I’ve taken as a bookbinder, but I’ve run a profitable bindery for 20 years. I received my bookbinding abilities via perform and interest. I proportion this to encourage an individual who has a dream yet feels an absence of schooling is a barrier to luck. If I—a highschool drop out—can do it, so are you able to. I reflect on books to be valuable, and, greater than i love to confess, I usually enjoy them as appealing gadgets, despite their content material. In my office, I exhibit a set of books via the nineteenthcentury polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. whilst my daughter used to be six, she as soon as requested what number of them I had learn and used to be puzzled whilst I advised her I had in basic terms learn 3. the reply, although fair, used to be peculiar to me, too: a number of well-tended cabinets of Nansen books, yet I had in basic terms learn 3. Books are supposed to be learn, after all, yet for a few of us who get pleasure from books for greater than their revealed content material they exert a attraction. they're gadgets to fetishize. This preciousness is what drives ebook creditors to procure books they could by no means learn.

Rated 4.98 of 5 – based on 13 votes