Hey the new phone book's here!

July 29, 2009 6:54 PM

The Sculpture of Alex Qurel Phonebooks as art and other re-uses of printed material.

Nicholas Galanin
Brian Dettmer
Kylie Stillman
Nicholas Jones

If you can get over the taboo of book defacement, revel in the creative re-use.

How to: The Altered Book Project
And previously from orange swan

posted by readery (4 comments total)

These are gorgeous. I'm especially in love the the Brian Dettmer and Alex Qurel ones. My friend Aria Nadii has been doing altered book art for a a long time. I've had one of her pieces for a few years; and it still fascinates me.
posted by dejah420 at 7:45 PM on July 29, 2009

Patrick Swazye grimly determined to find out who broke wind?
posted by digsrus at 7:45 PM on July 29, 2009

In the book re-use genre: a crafter I used to see when the darling wife and I worked Eastern Market does book purses. Looks like her site is down at the moment but I assume it'll be fixed.
posted by phearlez at 9:41 PM on July 29, 2009 [1 favorite]

Nice post, readery - thanks!
posted by madamjujujive at 6:12 AM on July 30, 2009