Glass book

Reading outdoors is a divine experience. Birds are chirping, the neighbor’s cat is lurking around...and the wind keeps flipping your pages. But fear no more, fellow bookworm, the Japanese are here to save the day with their transparent book weight called Book on Book.

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This was a birthday gift for a huge fan of the radio show/book/movie Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There is one quote per each of the eight pages, arranged so that when the book is closed…

Splitting his time between Kanagawa, Japan and Dusseldorf, Germany, artist Ramon Todo (previously) is known for his small sculptures of rocks and books embedded with polished layers of glass. Todo’s decision to seamlessly introduce disparate materials into a single object creates an unusual intention, as if these objects have always existed this way. The random pieces of obsidian, fossils, volcanic basalt, and old books are suddenly redefined, or as Beautiful/Decay’s Genista Jurgens puts it…

Artist Annalù Boeretto’s Explosive Liquid Sculptures Cast in Resin Glass

Artist's book, 'The Mirror book/book', by John Christie and Ron King, Circle Press, Guildford, 1985

Reminding you it's okay to judge a book by it's well-designed cover.