Creative Writing: Book Art
Art Book Fair
- Dublin Art Book Fair
'The Dublin Art Book Fair is a venue for artists, writers and publishers to feature new releases and present their publications. The fair engages established and emerging publishers in a large-scale event delivered over four days dedicated to the appreciation of printed work'.
Artists Book Feature
- University of Chicago Artists BooksThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago has an interesting online collection of artists' books, catalogues and exhibition ephemera, courtesy of the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection.
Street Art Feature
- London Letters
The Writing on the Wall transposed to book form and visual re-view.
Show Feature
- Japan - one stop shop
Japanese style...one book one show is a triumph for sales, interest, ambience and the experience of making the two dimensional, three dimensional- Yoshiyuki Morioka. An interesting focus centering one book, one exhibition and one event.
Photo- One stop shop ... Morioka Shoten in Tokyo. Photograph: PR
Critics Feature
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/frank-auerbach-tate-britain-review/
Both a stimulating written art review and the premise of a strong, muscular, visual art show by Frank Auerbach, which together, combine into something extraordinary. Read, look, think.
Feature
- Book Art by Robert The
Not quite what you would expect on this website, but could draw a lot of attention to a few chosen words in a non coventional manner!
Bookbrush (2002) by Robert Thé is featured using the pages of an art history textbook as bristles.
We really like the other Marcel Duchamp photoshow in the features gallery, make sure to check it out.
Great Cover Art
- Shortlist 50 cool covers
Some great images here that might inspire you!
Print Feature
Fonts of a different kind are explored in this iconoclastic book, now part of the canon in visual design.In his introduction to The End of Print, Lewis Blackwell sums up why David Carson still matters today: “The work celebrated the resonance of print and its processes, as well as the potential for a more intense visual media.”- http://www.printmag.com
Note: 2 copies are available in the NC Library at 796.62 BLA
Illustration Feature
http://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-book-illustration/
You may have the words but what about the illustrations? Check out this brief history of illustration for some guidance on this.
Virgil Finlay, “The Conquest of the Moon Pool”
Contemporary Covers
- Buzz Feed Covers
Some of the latest design trends at play in these images.
