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The Book as Art, amazing what an artist can do.

Submitted by Bruce K. Hollingdrake on Monday, 14 January 2008No Comment

Book with insides carved into art pieceEvery once and a while we come across art work that is just astounding. We had an incredible origami display a few weeks ago. Today’s link is all about what you can turn a book into using your imagination and a serious amount of artistic talent. Here they are, Some of the Most Unusual Books compiled by MyWiki.ws

We had a feature series here recently with the final piece showing similar, somewhat more practical things that can be done with old books.

Here’s the book from a piece of paper origami video.

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