A bookstore and library in Yangzhou, China has created a bibliophile’s dream. Black mirrored floors shimmer beneath arched shelves that stretch to the ceiling, creating...
Jungho Lee is a Korean artist and illustrator based in Seoul. He creates surreal illustrations incorporating books into our everyday surroundings and is also in...
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are lovely, and can act as a robust focal point in any home. But accessing the high shelves can be a problem. The...
Sometimes a small thing can make a big impact. Be significant. Make a difference. Once such example is The Castle, which is a project by...
Chic!Ken is a photographic project that features professional portraits of this underrated animal.
Three years ago, Plymouth University kicked off Moby Dick The Big Read, promising a full audio book of Herman Melville’s influential novel, with famous (and...
Today we have Kindles to save us from lugging heavy books around, but how did avid readers cope back in the 16th century? Some revealing...
It’s one thing to love books and reading, but it’s another thing to love it so much that you created a whole art installation with...
Creative Artist that finds inspiration in everything.
Argentine artist Marta Minujín has created a life-sized replica of the Parthenon using 100,000 banned books from around the world. The massive book art installation...
How much power does one book hold? That’s the central question of a unique installation by Mexican artist Jorge Mendez Blake. For his 2007 project, “The Castle” (named after The Castle...
When we last saw Colorado-based artist Evan Lorenzen, he had just released his miniature book “THE MINI BOOK OF MAJOR EVENTS“. His latest book continues the...
In celebration of World Book Day (last week) 7UP commissioned Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff to construct one of his famous book tanks. In this case he began with a...
Brian Dettmer, a New York-based artist known as the Book Surgeon, uses tweezers, knives, scalpels and other surgical tools to dissect and carve old books...
Trying to compress the history of Earth into a single book is an especially daunting task, the difficulty is compounded when the book you’re writing...
In order to express a single scene of a story in a three dimensional way, Japanese artist and architect Yusuke Oono created this imaginative series...
Sometimes, creativity goes wrong. Very wrong. Sometimes lack of funds or lack of creativity simply ends in disaster. Not much else we can say here...
Colleen Theisen, who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa, recently shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something...
Artist Ekaterina Panikanova creates densely layered paintings across large spreads of old books and other documents, resulting in artwork that blurs the lines between painting, installation and...
