Literarture
I had been planning on posting about another interesting product design, but that will have to wait. I’ve just been overawed by the work of Brian Dettmer, a truly inspired artist. Brian creates sculptures from old books, revealing their contents by cutting into them one page at a time. Brian describes his process of book dissection:
In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the cover of the book and dissect through it from the front. I work with knives, tweezers and other surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each page while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose a book’s hidden, fragmented memory. The completed pieces expose new relationships of a book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.
This is one of those brilliant concepts that I wish I had thought of. See more of his work posted at Centripetal Notion, and read about the artist on Wikipedia. Thanks to Jason Fried at 37signals for bringing it to my attention.