Digital Artist's Books

The Alphabet Julen

I enjoyed Julia Hayden’s Digital Alphabet. As a graphic-designer in-the-making, it provided some interesting perspectives of items that we see, sometimes innumerable times, over the course of our everyday lives. Don’t try and read Animals Can Be An Alphabet, Too on Mozilla, folks – it only works on IE: but it is most definitely worth it. Left alone the animal alphabet marches forward through each letter under its own stream; giving the viewer a length of time sufficient to admire Hayden’s creations. I did something similar in a graphic design subject, but I must admit – my designs are far less elegant.

Temptations

I enjoyed the images in this web site; I like the aesthetic of found images incorporated into hand-drawn art accompanying poems, but I do believe that the site functions more as an exhibition space than a book or books.

Transient Books, from which Temptations is sold has other artists books some of which are digital, such as the Janos Book. A site I believe I will look further into when I have time.

Minsky in Bed

I liked the concurrent stories with two voices in the stories in Minsky’s sexual (mis)adventures in Minsky in Bed

The Structure of the Virtual Book

Peregoy’s discussion about artist’s books raised some interesting points but was disappointing – the images he refers to (which can be seen above or below the corresponding text) are far too small to see when clicked on.

Treyf

His Excerpts from the Encyclopaedia of Underwater Investigations looked like an open traditional book with cover, title page and bibliographic information opposite the first page, but as a .pdf, the reader can only scroll down to the next spread which also looks like a traditional book spread. I was not particularly drawn to any of Rob Kovitz’s work.

Patternbook

Interesting: Hadlow at in the first part of the writing in the Patternbook says in regards to writing and drawing “Each involved an intimate and physical relationship between hand, pen and page (whether the page was part of a book or a wall)”. She provides yet another perspective about ‘bookness’, and what constitutes an artist’s book. A fascinating look into how the mind of an artist works. I wish I could see the completed work, though Hadlow might not like that term.

And to think Ruth was at CSU last year…

The Travel Poem

This .pdf is a poem by James Stuart. The Travel Poem have the look of a book but it does present double page spreads per view, so that the reader infers ‘book’. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue8_pdf/STUART_travelpoem.pdf