Tag: book
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Black Mirrored Floor Makes This Bookstore Entrance Look Like a Circular Tunnel of Books
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 the illusion of a never-ending tunnel of books. A zig-zagging gap prevents the top of the shelves from touching. When reflected on the floor below, the lighting bolt shape, which…
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Surreal Illustrations For Book Lovers By Korean Artist Jungho Lee
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 the process of working on his own picture book. He creates hand-drawn images that are then scanned and layered digitally, citing surrealists such as René Magritte as a major influence.…
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Architect Designs An Earthquake And Bomb Proof Climbable Library
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 common side-kick has always been ladders, which can also add character and charm. But for smaller homes like in Japan they can be a nuisance, occupying too much space for…
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One Book Disrupts the Foundation of an Entire Brick Wall by Jorge Méndez Blake
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 Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake that subtly examines the impact of a single outside force. For the installation, he constructed a 75 x 13 foot brick wall that balances on…
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The Most Beautiful Chickens on the Planet
Chic!Ken is a photographic project that features professional portraits of this underrated animal.
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Listen To Moby Dick In Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & More
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 not so famous) voices taking on a chapter each. We’re glad to say the project, created out of a 2011 conference by artist Angela Cockayne and writer Philip Hoare, has…
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This Amazing 16th Century Book Can Be Opened And Read In Six Different Ways
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 new images of an antique book that can be read six different ways show how Germans in the 1500s managed to condense their reading material. A small medieval book from…
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This Ultimate Book-Lover Turns Her Massive Library Of Books Into Art
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 the books you consume every day! That’s what Elizabeth Sagan has been doing, sharing her love for books with her followers each and every day. It originally began with sharing…
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Artist Creates Life-Sized Replica of Parthenon Using 100,000 Banned Books
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 is a replica of the famous Greek temple where democracy was born. However, the location of the ambitious project is more than just a symbolic statement – its located on…