Just stumbled upon the wonderful illustrations of Wendy MacNaughton today on The Rumpus. She illustrated an average day in the San Francisco Public Library and highlighted people and services that make the library special. Really worth checking out… Link: The San Francisco Public Library Main Branch–In its Own Words
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Tag Archives: Artists
And Now For Some Art
I came across a couple of artists in the past few weeks that are creating wonderful artwork using books as props. The first is Nina Katchadourian, an artist I discovered through Brain Pickings. In her Sorted Books series, Katchadourian goes to various libraries and uses books in the stacks to create intriguing and amusing phrases. [...]
Every Painting in the MoMA in 2 minutes
This video was posted last week on The Centered Librarian blog–a great blog with contributions from a handful of people focusing on library innovation and technology. I highly suggest you check out their other posts to discover delightful library and non-library tidbits such as this:
More craftiness from the NYPL
I’m glad to see that the New York Public Library is continuing their collaboration with artists and crafters after their popular Design By the Book series with Design*sponge. This time they are partnering up with with Maura Madden, author of Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Craftsy with Your Friends All Year Long, to [...]
Art Stuff
It has been awhile since I posted something art or design related. I saw this video from Etsy today and immediately fell in love, not only with the beautifully shot video, but with the whole experience of the Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design. While the curator talks of the space as [...]
Design by the book: final episode
The final episode of Design by the Book is here and it is a good one. The final projects of the artists are revealed alongside the library items that inspired it all. (I am particularly entranced with the navy men pattern). Great outreach by the NYPL librarians–apparently a few hundred people showed up for the [...]
Library Orientation Video
I came across this library orientation video when I was looking through the CCA library blog. Considering that this is an art school, I can’t think of a better way to inform students about the library or library policies than with a beautifully artsy video such as this. Oh, and one of the creators is [...]
Design by the Book
I posted a link to this on Twitter, but I love this project between one of my favorite design focused blogs, Designsponge, and the New York Public Library. I believe there is a final episode still on its way, but I love to see how artists can be inspired by old books, maps, etc. Part [...]
