Jason Thompson, founder and creative director at Rag & Bone Bindery in Rhode Island, released his latest book, "Playing With Books, the Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing and Reimagining the Book" which features 26 book-related projects for both beginner and advanced book artists. Such projects include transforming a book into a bag, turning book pages into flowers, creating a flower vase from a book and more. "Playing With Books" includes book art from accomplished artists such as Lisa Kokin, Robert The, Su Blackwell, Georgia Russell, Tracey Bush and more.
In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art.
The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun.The beautiful high-end presentation and stunning photography make this book a delightful, must-have volume for any book-loving artist or art-loving book collector.
ISBN: 9781592536009
152 Pages
200 photos/illustrations
Dimensions: 8.5 x 10 inches
Introduction
Getting Started: Fold, Mutilate, Staple & Spindle
Projects to Play With: Novels Ideas for Artists & Bibliophiles
Gallery: Reimaging the Book
Artist Directory
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Jason Thompson is the founder and president of Rag & Bone Bindery, and author of Making Journals By Hand (Rockport Publishing 2001). He is highly regarded as a book designer with integrity who creates unique handbound books and other fine bindings, as well as a popular blogger who writes about bookbinding, book arts, artist books, and paper craft.
Thomas Allen, Cara Barer, Ellen Bell, Doug Beube, Su Blackwell, Tracey Bush, Nicci Cobb, Casey Curran, Nicola Dale, Sheila Daniels, Brian Dettmer, Pam Garrison, Cuby Gerard, Mollie C. Greene, Nicolas Jones, Jennifer Khoshbin, Lisa Kokin, Karin Langeveld, Guy Laramee, Jacqueline Rush Lee, Lana Manis, Kelly Murray, Betty Pepper, Susan Poreous, Alex Queral, Jim Rosenau, Georgia Russell, Deborah Schiltmans, Kristin Sollenberger, Ilira Steinman, Mike Stilkey, Jill Sylvia, Veronika Anita Teuber, Robert The, and Jason Thompson