Flyleaves

Art, Books and anything that catches my eye.
Bit of background to my design. The title Wolf like Me comes from the band TV on the Radio, which I happened to be listening to a lot at the time. Though I was inspired by another band who were then called Peggy Sue and the Pirates for the design.  They used to release monthly EP’s with four songs on.  The artwork for these EP’s were all hand drawn hand shadow diagrams, which I loved. The artwork only showed the hands and the shadow.  I wanted to expand on that idea, the wallpaper was the first part of this expansion, I wanted to create the idea of a room and add some texture to work against the flatness of the shadow.  The person in the image is actually me, but I didn’t want to use myself as a model, or anyone recognizable for that matter so I donned the hoodie to conceal most of my face.  I put the images together using Photoshop, then used the Photoshop image to create the dry point etching.  This was one of several in series that I created for my print workshop, there was also a bird shadow and a shadow monster.  Go Vote here http://goo.gl/DdmPj (vote 5 if you’d like to see this as a t-shirt)

Bit of background to my design. The title Wolf like Me comes from the band TV on the Radio, which I happened to be listening to a lot at the time. Though I was inspired by another band who were then called Peggy Sue and the Pirates for the design.  They used to release monthly EP’s with four songs on.  The artwork for these EP’s were all hand drawn hand shadow diagrams, which I loved. The artwork only showed the hands and the shadow.  I wanted to expand on that idea, the wallpaper was the first part of this expansion, I wanted to create the idea of a room and add some texture to work against the flatness of the shadow.  The person in the image is actually me, but I didn’t want to use myself as a model, or anyone recognizable for that matter so I donned the hoodie to conceal most of my face.  I put the images together using Photoshop, then used the Photoshop image to create the dry point etching.  This was one of several in series that I created for my print workshop, there was also a bird shadow and a shadow monster.  Go Vote here http://goo.gl/DdmPj (vote 5 if you’d like to see this as a t-shirt)

Threadless

Hi, I currently have a submission to Threadless that is in the voting process, please have a look and vote.  It may get turned into a t-shirt.

http://goo.gl/DdmPj

Hello

I’ve had this thing for a bit and I’m not really sure what I’m doing with it, but I thought I’d introduce myself anyway.  Hi, I’m Ailsa, I’m a student doing an MA in Artist’s Books, hence why I reblog so much from the lovely Fuck Yeah Book Arts page.  I work in museums and galleries to earn enough money to pay for my tuition, and also because working for museums and galleries is fun and you never know what people are going to say to you.  Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it makes you want to repeatedly thump your head against 1000 year old walls, most of the time it’s at least amusing.  

I’ll probably re-blog a lot until I figure out how to post things myself.  I have my MA exhibition coming up in July and lots of my work is nearing completion, so I’ll have to learn how to post stuff here sooner or later. I also have a website, but it’s down at the moment as I want to have a re-jig it and I can’t be bothered to go find my debit card and pay my domain renewal - effort, meh.   I’ll post the address later when It’s up and running again.  

gingerhaze: Avengers was great and all but now I need a sequel posthaste so that they can bro out all over the place, forever.

gingerhaze:

Avengers was great and all but now I need a sequel posthaste so that they can bro out all over the place, forever.

Next to the multi-tasking, attention-deficit frenzy of the Web, the printed page is blissfully disconnected. What might have been interpreted as print’s weakness turns out to be a strength: print is serene and meditative in a world where these qualities are ever more scarce.
And if print is cold, it is offset by the warmth of paper. Set against the harsh glare of Vistas and e-books, paper draws you in, each page soaking up and softly reflecting light. That’s why we so often find ourselves printing copies of anything that takes more than a few minutes to read. We shuffle the pages, we feel their weight, we scrawl in their margins, and the paper itself communicates: a deckled edge conveying a certain refinement, the thickness or texture catching our fingers, the turning of a page imparting momentum to the text itself.

—Extract from Codex in Crisis (2008) by Anthony Grafton (via fuckyeahbookarts)

Hark! A Vagrant:: Be Excellent To Each Other

My Brother appears in this. He goes by The Flying Bears, Take to the Skys!

beatonna:

And so with those immortal Bill and Ted words:

Today I was sad to see comics posted without credit somewhere for the millionth time, and aired my frustration on twitter. It gets me down sometimes, even though we all know what the internet is like! Credit the artists whose comics you post! They…

Love these. 

fuckyeahbookarts:

Handstitched Clamshell Book Sculptures by Odelae (Erica Ekrem)

“An ode to the Salish Sea…. from a butter clam shell (Saxidomus giganteus) discovered on the ocean floor off the coast of Orcas Island, a beautiful and sculptural clam shell hand-bound book. A little taste of mama ocean that will fit comfortably in the palm of an adult sized hand.”