Revisiting the artist books.
Posted: January 23, 2014 Filed under: Contextual, Creative Strategies, Field. | Tags: art, Book, Drawing, handmade, illustration, libary, Maker. Leave a commentI had another hour session in the library looking at the artist books this morning. I was great to revisit to collection because 1- I was now looking at them from the concept of narrative and 2- new ones have been added to the collection!
I can see how books can be a great way to illustrate narrative as they are not only traditionally designed to do so they are also naturally sequential.
Here are some pictures of my favourites:
London wall, a great ‘photo essay’ documenting the narrative of one place.
Little museum. Also similar to London wall as it takes the form of a ‘photo essay’ but instead is documenting objects rather than place.
This next one I loved because not only was it slightly un-conventional (as many artist books are) it was also multi-sensory incorporating the smell of herbs and plants.
This next one I just loved aesthetically.
Artist books: An inspiration.
Posted: October 18, 2013 Filed under: Contextual, Creative Strategies, Drawing | Tags: art, Artist, Book, books, inspiration, learning, libary, photo, school., uni, university Leave a commentYesterday I went to an artist book session at the university library. There is a lovely collection of various artist books in our library and we had an amazing opportunity to handle them ourselves.
We spent some time debating what makes it book and is it still a book if it doesn’t take the traditional form?
Even though my books will look like traditional books from the outside (or at least I hope they will) they will contain something unexpected. This is where I can apply some if the concepts I learnt in this artist book reading.
Here is a selection of books I found compelling, interesting and aesthetically striking:
Maker:Tess 