The France-based Éditions du livre “publishes ideas in the shape of books in association with artists, graphic designers and illustrators.” I especially liked Sunkyung Kim’s Zoo In My Hand, described as a “pocket zoo with 40 animals to cut out.” See more pictures here and their entire catalogue here.
Over the winter and spring, I’ve continued to play with a variation on the Turkish Map Fold. Many of my haiku are about my walks around town and my neighborhood, so for this one I designed a book that unfolds to reveal an imaginary map of my early morning ramblings, walking my (also imaginary) dog. Ten original haiku trace the path, narrating the journey. I’ve called it “I Started Early, Took the Dog…” See the pictures below. I’ve made an edition of 35 — available in my shop here. See all my posts on the Turkish Map Fold here.
Richard Minsky listed the book below, by Hedi Kyle, on ebay recently. It’s entitled “Karussell” and Minsky described it as 1993. 12″ h x 11″ diam. Printed papers, dyed thread, machine sewing, folded handmade paper extensions. Roundabout construction. Unique. Provenance: Karussell was exhibited in the 1993 exhibition Hedi Kyle & Her Influence: 1977-1993 at the Center for Book Arts in New York City.
The map below — from the “Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind” — was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Braille was invented in 1825, but this atlas uses embossed letters for place names as well as longitude and latitude. The map is from the David Rumsey Map Collection — they have over 32,000 map and map-related items online. You can see all the pages they have from the Atlas here.
Felt & Wired did a nice write-up about my friend Cathy’s blog Bookmaking with Kids. Cathy’s posted dozens of book-centric projects suitable for kids and teachers, categorized by age, structure and subject. Take a look at the interview here or read Cathy’s blog here.
Green Salad’s triple Turkish map-fold structure both conceals and reveals a poem nestled in the lettuce leaves, just as love can both hide and manifest itself in such simple activities as preparing and eating food.
I found this example, and the quote above, of the Turkish Map Fold in The Book as Art, a lovely illustrated volume of artists’ books collected by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. The book is by Katherine Glover and made of Tyvek.