Quilled Paper Alphabet by Dan Hoopert

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Quilled Paper Alphabet by Dan Hoopert :



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Just twelve ounces of paper, ink and glue

This book began with a set of the library card pockets from North Curl Curl Public School's cancelled library books. You'll see the occasional stamp on the interior shots below.
Library cards and their pockets are a thing of the past, and these have history in them. I still have the actual cards, which I'll get to eventually!
I made a single flag book to hold the pockets together.
I took a quote about books and wrote it in stylised print on transparent paper and on the back of some of some metallic decorated paper:
"when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there's all heaven and earth in a book"
Most pages have just one word on them, and many are so stylised that it's difficult to read. (see below)
Each pocket now houses 2 or 3 pieces of paper, translucent and non.
Next week I'll make a box (or a mini-bookshelf) to house it.
Materials: re-purposed library pockets, cardboard, metallic and transparent paper, and sharpie markers (ink). The tiny price tag was white, and I used the green sharpie to colour it in, including its string!
With thanks to my favourite Aunty Suzie, who gave me the cancelled books to play with.

you can read "and" on the transparent
paper, underneath you may work out
"or read" in green.

put several transparent papers over
each other and stylised words
become blueprints
for magical things.

This says "glue".
but it looks like a weird
chicken or a map.

Pablo Lehmann - Melted plastic letters!

Pablo Lehmann - Plastic Artist is wonderful because it's all letters.
There's a heap of beautiful images there, take a moment and be delighted!





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The Fascinating Neuroscience Of Color

Cindy Tonkin 2014 For Richard

interesting research: "humans may be hard-wired for certain hues"

The Fascinating Neuroscience Of Color



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Dreams and a new building

Went to Manly library this week to see the works from Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz talk about their artist's books (and show them to us!).
Saw a new binding they used and made it today
Here are the results on translucent paper.

Technology opportunities for book artists I reckon!

These objects could be such beautiful things - and still talk to the computers we all carry around with us!

Smart wooden blocks add a physical element to digital interactions





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My sketchbook is touring the USA!

Journey to Paris by cindytonkin | Digital Library | Art House Co-op is a sketchbook I filled with collage and colouring-in between Abu Dhabi and Paris last year. It's digitized here. Some pages sideways or upside down, but you probably won't notice!



If you're in the USA, you may be able to catch up with all of sketchbooks!



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Helen Hiebert's work

Artists’ Books « Helen Hiebert Studio

go see the pretty things!



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Show Your Work: Austin Kleon on the Art of Getting Noticed

Show Your Work: Austin Kleon on the Art of Getting Noticed 



Summarises the idea that by making your work "stealable" and sharing it we all prosper.

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On a Bookshelf

My works, re-printed and added to a concertina

Stephen Sollins' beautiful work

Stephen Sollins Artist New York:  some beautiful works, especially the scotch tape transferred portraits (Last Portraits).
And here are some American Quilts made entirely of paper (mostly envelopes). and more.





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Christmasy: Paper wreaths

The only useful thing in Trash Origami turned out to be the paper wreaths. Here's a few I made a few Christmases ago. I tend to make one thing a million times (and then forget I took the photos).
Enjoy!
most of the paper is from an old book (so these are kinda all altered books!)

Altered: the Book of Other People

I've been looking back into my archives this weekend.
Here is a book I altered in April 2008 while on holiday to New York.