The Basement Stacks by Wary Meyers, who writes:

“Books breaking through the (faux) wall downstairs, referencing the ‘basement stacks’ every library has. In this case it’s as if those stacks had been sealed up during some remodel, and are anthropomorphically breaking through, referencing the old library, history, roots, poltergeists… Created for the VIA Advertising Agency, which recently renovated and moved their offices into the old Baxter building, which served as Portland’s public library from 1888 until the 1960s.”

Via pegobry, via ayjay

Via helenelagonelle, via alecshao:

Romeo and Juliet poster by Beetroot Design Group: Every “Romeo” and “Juliet” throughout the entire text of the play is connected resulting in a web of 55,440 red lines

amylovesbooks:

“Australian artist Kylie Stillman carves trees out of books — and thus the very living things that gave their life to be turned into printed matter in the first place.”

  More at 1-800-Recycling

(via libraryland)

Greta Garbo’s bookplate, via DRB.

“Studiolo of Francesco I,” one of Abigail Reynolds’s cut bookplate works.

View larger image at MOON RIVER

Via benjaminhilts:

William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaug - Agrippa: a book of the dead

A collaboration between the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the author William Gibson, this book is designed to self-destruct on use. A computer floppy disk encrypted with a virus contains an autobiographical text by William Gibson relating to the death of his father when the author was aged six, triggered by the discovery of his father’s old photograph album, a type marketed by Kodak in the 1920s under the name ‘Agrippa’. When the disk is viewed, the words of the story begin scrolling up the screen at a preset speed, the virus corrupting all the data. The first ‘reading’ of the disk is therefore also the last. The disk is contained in a cut-out portion of the book and is accompanied by a 46 page ‘text’ of DNA code and a series of copperplate etchings by Ashbaugh representing images of human genes, the latter printed in ink designed to rub off if touched which echoes the book’s theme of decay. Held in a dark slate-grey case with a base of honeycombed board reinforced with wire wire mesh and distressed paper, treated to simulate corrosion and fire damage.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Ohhhhh, I love it so much. By TheBlackSpotBooks, via Bioephemera.

Via benjaminhilts, via reckon:

Tom Phillips

HUMUMENT.COM: Page 194

Illustration from Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels by David A. Beronä. More scans from the book at BibliOdyssey.

Via misstugui, via mazes

Via don’t touch my moleskine.

“Lacks Subtlety”

From The Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searle’s Wicked World of Winetasting, a collection of caricatures “satirising the jargon of the would-be wine connoisseur.” Via BibliOdyssey.

Via i love typography.

Prove It, by Jennifer Khoshbin.

Discovered via NotCot.