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Currently on my work bench: The Island

It is quite a strange habit of mine, to procrastinate and take forever to think about the design idea for a binding before realising that time is ticking away. And yes, it is less than 4 weeks to the start for submissions for this competition piece by Stichting Hand Boekinden, De Buitenkant and Museum Meermanno in Amsterdam for the International Miniature Bookbinding Compeition. 

A lot of fun coming on, but yes, making plans and hoping that I can soon make up my mind as to what I want to do. Before it really becomes too late!

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Bookmarking Book Art - Alicia Martín

Bookmarking Book Art – Alicia Martín

Alicia Martín’s series of installations called Biografías has been frequently noted across the Web — Designverb (2009), Crooked Brains (2010), SFCB Blog (2011), Huffington Post (2012), Inhabitat (2012), My Modern Met (2012, 2013), Arte Al Límite (2014), TiraBUZón (2014), El Cultural (2014, 2015) — but Nicola Mariani’s 2013 interviewwith Alicia Martín is the most useful entrée to this book artist…

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Museum Meermanno by Olivia Notter Via Flickr: Den Haag, Netherlands | October, 2015

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Industrial progress. Pre-war Soviet illustration by Paulus Veltman Via Flickr: Snapshot from an exhibition of Russian picture books from the period 1925 - 1941 in the Museum Meermanno, The Hague.

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200 Years of Dutch Comics at Museum Meermanno, The Hague

Museum Meermanno or the House of the Book is the oldest book museum in the worldfounded in 1862 and situated within the home of Baron van Westreenen van Tiellandt (1783-1848). The museum can be found at number 30 Prinsessegracht in The Hague – an…

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Silliest book in the world

Drumstick, ham, bowl of soup, egg, fried fish, beer and wine: they are all found on these most unusual 16th-century pages, the most bizarre I have seen. You are actually looking at a song: the four lines form a medieval staff, the words underneath it (Dutch) lyrics. Its most spectacular feature are the notes, which are made of food and drinks - forming actual music. This is a song for Shrove or Pancake Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, which marked the beginning of a period of fasting. The pages seem to encourage the reader to have one last evening of fun, one last copious meal, one last barrel of wine. And one last good laugh.

Pics: The Hague, Museum Meermanno, MS 10 C 26 (c. 1550). More information here (in Dutch). I wish to thank the museum for supplying the hi-res images used for this post. The book was brought to my attention through a tweet by @SjoerdLevelt.

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Books cascading from a window at Museum Meermanno | House of the Book in The Hague, Netherlands (by mel723).