Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Fold This! Pop-up Books & Paper Engineering
"Movable books have been around for more than 700 years." Read More.
See RISD's pop-up books.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Europeana
Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions.
On September 12, 2012 Europeana opened "up data about all 20 million of the items it holds under the CC0 rights waiver. This means that anyone can reuse the data for any purpose - whether using it to build applications to bring cultural content to new audiences in new ways, or analysing it to improve our understanding of Europe's cultural and intellectual history."
For more info see: The Guardian article.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Getty Research Portal
"The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users."
http://portal.getty.edu/
Thursday, May 3, 2012
BOOKMARK: Student Made Artists' Books at RISD Library
Curated by Jan Baker
Display Dates:
2nd floor Exhibition Case, April 6 - June 2, 2012 (shortened due to library construction)
1st Floor & Mezzanine Exhibition Cases,
April 6 - July 31, 2012
As Professor Jan Baker celebrates her year as a Library Fellow in RISD Artists’ Book Collection, she marks her 30 years teaching Book Arts Courses at RISD; with the exhibition BOOKMARK, which can be viewed in the RISD Library from April through July 2012.
Everyone has an interesting story deep down within themselves. Jan has been encouraging her students to bring forth their inner stories, by inspiring them to create their own artists’ books. In this extensive exhibition, you will note numerous themes such as alphabets, travel, culture, nature, animals, senses, food and life stories. Each of these stories were written, edited, designed, printed and hand-bound by her students into a final book. Students experimented with different papers, printing techniques and binding structures.
Even though you can’t open each and every one of these books to read their touching narratives, there is a BOOKMARK to pique your curiosity of what fascinating stories lie within. Perhaps you will be inspired by Jan’s students creativity and make a book this summer, about a story you have inside of yourself.
Jan Baker, RISD Graphic Design Professor & Library Fellow in the Artists' Book Collection 2011-2012
Display Dates:
2nd floor Exhibition Case, April 6 - June 2, 2012 (shortened due to library construction)
1st Floor & Mezzanine Exhibition Cases,
April 6 - July 31, 2012
As Professor Jan Baker celebrates her year as a Library Fellow in RISD Artists’ Book Collection, she marks her 30 years teaching Book Arts Courses at RISD; with the exhibition BOOKMARK, which can be viewed in the RISD Library from April through July 2012.
Everyone has an interesting story deep down within themselves. Jan has been encouraging her students to bring forth their inner stories, by inspiring them to create their own artists’ books. In this extensive exhibition, you will note numerous themes such as alphabets, travel, culture, nature, animals, senses, food and life stories. Each of these stories were written, edited, designed, printed and hand-bound by her students into a final book. Students experimented with different papers, printing techniques and binding structures.
Even though you can’t open each and every one of these books to read their touching narratives, there is a BOOKMARK to pique your curiosity of what fascinating stories lie within. Perhaps you will be inspired by Jan’s students creativity and make a book this summer, about a story you have inside of yourself.
Jan Baker, RISD Graphic Design Professor & Library Fellow in the Artists' Book Collection 2011-2012
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