Every so often the team at Society6 cooks up a really fantastic idea for a new print collection, art show or zine. This time, they partnered with over 20 artists on Us and Them, a limited edition 30-page zine with exclusive artwork.
Index is a project that Karim Charlebois-Zariffa created back in 2008 in which he photographed everything he owned, arranged neatly, and created a 32-page book out of it.
Artist Aaron Wexler creates some truly stunning pieces of art, but these $1 book covers are my favorite. He’s carved out the book covers and revealed the cardboard innards, creating abstract and modern patterns.
EAT! Design with Food is a delectable new design publication and calendar that celebrates the relationship between food and design. Serving up delicious design each week, the book features 54 designers, artists and architects illuminating visual trends and special designs from the area of food, drink and nutrition.
Wagnalls Wheel, 2010, Altered Set of Encyclopedias
What Brian Dettmer does with books is mind-blowing.
Love these Oliver Sacks book covers designed by Cardon Webb.
A great invention from DDP Studio: a bookmark that doubles as a book holder so you don’t have to carry it around in your hand or keep taking it in and out of your bag while traveling.
The following post was sponsored by 90 Days of Art. Our sponsors are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.
“90 Days of Art” is an online Art Journal and Exhibit for charity, created by John Beck McConnico. He is producing an average of one painting, sketch, doodle, or art nugget per day, continuously for a 90-day period. 90% of all proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross, which offers assistance to disaster relief for events such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Haiti earthquake, and recent tornadoes in the American South & Midwest.
Each piece is available for sale as a limited-edition print or framed piece of art, with average prices ranging from $20 to $200. All items are printed on archival paper, safely packaged and delivered to your door (100% satisfaction guaranteed). In addition, a full-color hardback book will be published after the 90-day period, featuring the most popular art works. Sign up on the website to reserve the limited-edition volume.
John Beck McConnico is a fine artist, graphic designer, and creative director who resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and Creative Director of SemiBig Creative Industries, a Berkeley-based multidisciplinary design studio, as well as a co-creator of PopSlice, an online website creation tool for creatives.
Start perusing for philanthropy at www.90daysofart.com.
These table and ceiling lamps made by Ragip Erdem are created from old books using not just the pages but the spine and covers, too. Turning them into little sculptures, Ragip hand makes each lamp from a single book, therefore no two lamps are the same.
Have you ever wanted your bookshelf to look consistent and organized? Maybe themed or color coded?
Thatcher Wine from Juniper Books sent over a few of these modern book jackets. I love the idea that you can have a series of books that go together as much visually as they do thematically.
