Artist books: An inspiration.

Yesterday 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: