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Book Design
 Websites presented in alphabetical order An Archive of Book Cover Designs and Designers 
 View hundreds of recent book cover designs "for the purpose of appreciation." Browsable by designer, illustrator, photographer, author, and other categories (some categories are under development). Also includes a blog with "industry news, site updates, [and] assorted book cover-related miscellany," and links to related sites. From enthusiasts. http://bookcoverarchive.com/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 26, 2009 Bloomsbury: Books, Art and Design
This online exhibit explores the artistic activity of the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers. Members included artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. The site features portraits, designs by the group's Omega Workshops, and Hogarth Press dust jackets, such as those created by Bell for works by her sister Virginia Woolf. From the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/bloomsbury/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 21, 2006 Book/Shelf
Companion to an exhibit of modern art in the shape of books, which are "difficult to categorize. ... The works presented here use a variety of techniques -- photography, film printing, assemblage, drawing, and sound recording." View highlights of works by artists such as Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, and Brian Belott. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/bookshelf/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated Jul 29, 2009 Building With Books
This site offers an alternative for disposing of undesirable books: build them into furniture. The site documents the exhibition of lamps, umbrella stands, picture frames, and related objects, along with "photographs of the process, [and] publicity posters." The project was the result of a classroom and library collaboration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/bookbuild/art.html Topics: Crafts, Environment, Home & Housing, Librarianship, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Technology Last updated Jul 11, 2007 Dust Jackets From American and European Books, 1926-1947
Online collection of images of "more than 2,000 original specimens of book jackets from trade books." The jackets "are from books published in the United States and Europe during two turbulent decades. Throughout, the illustrations and titles mirror the era's changing political concerns and desires. The dominant Art Deco design trends of the early years are evident." Browse by year, or search by keyword. From the New York Public Library (NYPL). http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=DustJacketsfromAmeri&col_id=157 Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Apr 9, 2009 Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
American artist Elihu Vedder was one of the many artists captivated by Edward FitzGerald's translation of the "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám." Houghton Mifflin's 1884 publication of the work with Vedder's illustrations, one of the most successful editions of the work, is reproduced here. There is also a brief biography of Vedder and an essay on the work. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/vedder/index.html Topics: Artists, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Oct 12, 2009 Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department: Book of the Month
Collection of illustrated essays about historic and rare editions of books such as Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language," Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," and Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Includes monthly selections back to mid-1999. From the Glasgow University (Scotland) Library Special Collections Department. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/current.html Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Dec 4, 2007 Hand Bookbindings: From Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
Companion site to an exhibition on the "craft and art of binding books by hand" that ran in 2002-2003 at the Princeton University Library. Browse images of more than 200 books by categories such as endleaves, endbands, edge decoration, clasps and closures, gold tooling, and embroidered binding. Many of the sections include historical notes. http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 16, 2005 Judging A Book By Its Cover: Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
An exhibit of English and American 19th century book covers with gold-stamping, a process that "brought to the mass-produced book some of the prestige associated with gold-tooled leather bindings of the pre-industrial era." Browsable by topic (vignettes, traditional designs, classical motifs, coats of arms, Wild West, travel books, designer bindings). Also features a gallery of selected book spines. From New York's Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Libraries & Archives by Type, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Literature Reimagined
This exhibit "offers multiple editions of popular literary works, focusing on the ways in which they have been reinterpreted over time." Some of the works examined include "Beowulf," John Milton's "Paradise Lost," Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," James Joyce's "Ulysses," and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Curated by librarian Iris R. Snyder of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections. http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/text/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Dec 4, 2007 Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
Devoted to the Russian artist. Features a chronology of Lissitzky's life, and images of his work in typography, book design, exhibition design, and photography. From the Getty Research Institute. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/lissitzky/ Topics: Artists, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated May 22, 2005 Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books From University of California Collections, 1550–1990
An online version of an exhibition catalog. Contains essays focusing on the history and tradition of children's publishing; movable and pop-up books, toys, and games; 19th-century illustrators; and 20th-century technology used in illustrating children's books. Features over 30 illustrations, checklist of works, and selected bibliography. From the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles. http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/childhood/pictur.htm Topics: California: Education, Children's Literature, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jan 27, 2009 The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934
Includes images of over 100 books created by Russian avant-garde writers and artists, including schools of Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Rayism, Neo-primitivism, and zaum; and books featuring innovative use of typography and themes of Judaica. See the "Book Index" for a complete list of titles, browsable by author/artist, publisher, and year of publication. From the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2002/russian/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated Oct 5, 2009 Teaching Gutenberg
This site explores two topics related to the Gutenberg Bible at the University of Texas. The "Invention" section explores Johann Gutenberg's creation of the first book printed with movable type, and "Books Before and After Gutenberg" considers the development of written materials from clay tablets to facts about modern printing. Includes images, lesson plans, and a glossary. From the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/educator/modules/gutenberg/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Religion Last updated Jan 16, 2008 TypeBound
Companion to an exhibition that "includes a wide range of works from sculptures that reference books to books that reference movement and shape beyond the bound page," and typewriter poetry, "an important variant of visual poetry." Includes introductory essay, which considers "what is a book?", images of selected books sculptures, description of how to make a typewriter poem, and typewriter poem examples. From the University of Central Florida Art Gallery. http://www.readies.org/typebound/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 26, 2009 Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders & Book Designers
This exhibit documents how "women have been involved in printing and the making of books ever since these crafts were first developed." Offers a brief introduction about women in book printing from the 15th through 20th centuries and four ways to browse the collection: by image (the "thumbnail gallery"), name, occupation, and date. From Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection. http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/ Topics: History, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Women Last updated Jan 31, 2007 |
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