Book of art is a series of books whose pages have been folded in such a way as to create a series of 3D words. At first glance, the careful, intricate folds appear laser cut, but at closer inspection it is apparent that the artist has, in fact, folded and manually cut individual pages to beautiful effect. The ease to which one can make the mistake is a testament to the level of detail in each of the book sculptures. Isaac Salazar, an untrained self-taught artist, was initially inspired by the so-called Reader's Digest Christmas TreesThe sculptures can take him anywhere from a day to 2 weeks to finish.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Monday, 24 January 2011
Old Packaging 1880-1939
Today I was looking for some books which would help me with writing my essay about pastiche and I picked up a book about packaging and could not resist to take pictures. I think old packaging is beautiful. It was interesting to see old packaging of mars bar, milky way or maltesers. I have notice that red, yellow and greenish were the main colors used for designing..
Sunday, 23 January 2011
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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