Creative Bookmarks
Watching Words Move
First published in 1962, this work of experimental typography uses letters in a single typeface, Helvetica, to achieve surprising results — motion and narrative, emotion and humor.
Dust jacket of a children’s book that I have designed for an assignment. Each image contains the spine of the book as well as the flap for that half.
yes come to me
#oh my god #it’s like the library from beauty and the beast is real
Sweet mother of pearl!
For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says:
So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.
For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says:
So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.
These are INCREDIBLE! Click through to the source for more and the links in the description take you to even more.
(Source: thisiscolossal.com)
This was the present I gave my mum. It’s a handmade journal I put together on Christmas Eve Eve. I personally wanted to keep it when I’d finished but ‘tis the season of giving (and I had nothing to substitute for it).
(Source: haydenrodgers)
Hayden and Cara Do Stuff: NaNoWrimo.
Day Four: Composers I Wouldn’t Stab
Hayden talks about how things will go down when his book becomes a movie.
Yay! I’m back for our Day 4 vlog! Please watch this and get involved with this project!
Harry Potter: Page To Screen
I’m also possibly getting this for my birthday! This is why I’m studying graphic design; a back-up career for me is art direction.
no•thing•ness,the state or quality of being nothing.
You asked for books and I made recommendations. (The Chosen by Chaim Potok) That would be a pretty accurate title, actually.
My band and I have a gig at Dr.Nasty’s ummm…..yeah!
Surrender First
This is VERY sound advice.
Practising writing helps you gain confidence, style, ability, and keeps you engaged and motivated. If you are struggling to start writing a chapter or plan something because you just don’t have the mojo at the moment then sit yourself down, open a fresh word document or open a writing journal and spill out some words about ANYTHING. I try to just blurt out character facts and backgrounds so it’s productive but the main thing is that you don’t stop for anything. Don’t stop in the name of that sentence you just wrote having the right punctuation or even making complete sense. Just keep going. Once you’re in the groove it will be hard to stop.
Have you ever tried thinking of novel idea’s or writing something after you’ve finished reading something you like? Invariably it will have some similarities to that text. That’s why you should surround yourself with the type of books you love. But even crappy writing will push you in some direction. I once wrote a quote on this subject that goes as follows:
“I like to think that everyone is born with a slightly unique writing style. However, it is forever like a child’s mind - forming synapses left, right, and centre - so that everything we read becomes part of it, even if we don’t realise. Your style will eventually become pronounced but it is never guaranteed any permanence.”
- H.G. Rodgers
Read. Write. Repeat.
I made the Dawn Treader out of pages from my Narnia books that were falling apart from being loved too much
This is freaking amazing, I’m going to share it with the cast.
wooowwweeee
