We’ve Moved!

The Curled Up With A Book blog is now at http://curledupwithabook.com. Come visit for more altered books, beautiful libraries, and book gadgets. Hope to see you soon!

Colorful Book Wallpaper

I’m always excited when I see book wallpaper. Some part of me wishes I could live in an old-fashioned library, with books all the way up to the ceiling, and a towering ladder to reach them. This dream started back when I was in elementary school, when I would have loved to have this “Library” wallpaper in my bedroom.  Designed by Tom Slaughter, it is part of Cavern Home’s artist series. Cavern Home is a boutique wallpaper design firm, and they have many beautiful non-bookish designs too. Check them out here.

For black-and-white book wallpaper in a different style, check out this earlier post.

BookBook

The BookBook is hardback leather case designed for MacBook and MacBook Pro, making your laptop look like an old  book. See Twelve South for more info on the BookBook. I first saw the Book Book mentioned here. What a fun way to protect your Mac!

Bookends!

I’m loving the round-up of bookends that Design*Sponge posted yesterday.  My favorites were a sliced apple bookend available at Pottery Barn, blob bookends from CB2 and scissor bookends from Ballard Designs. Go take a look here for the rest.

Su Blackwell – Pandora Opens Box

“Pandora Opens Box” is piece by Su Blackwell. From Blackwell’s website, here is her artist statement:

“Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.

It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air.”

Another post on Su Blackwell’s works is here.  Or visit Blackwell’s website for even more images.

Uris Library Stacks

Uris Library Stacks at Cornell, by Eflon on flickr.

Stop-motion altered book video

If you like altered books, you will love this stop-motion ad. Thanks for sharing Jason.