Since my youth, I’ve been a fan of pop up books. I first wrote about them dur­ing on Brown Paper Bag’s Thurs­day Round-Up. As some­one who doesn’t think very eas­ily in the 3D, the con­struc­tion of pop up books con­tin­ues to amaze me. Cou­ple that with excit­ing illus­tra­tions, and it’s a force to be reck­oned ...

Hanne Ulla is a Berlin-based artist and illus­tra­tor orig­i­nally born in Nor­way. Her recent and on-going work body of work explores the inter­sec­tions between civ­i­liza­tion, envi­ron­men­tal issues, and iden­tity. Hanne imag­ines bath­rooms and bath­houses and cre­ates dystopian sce­nar­ios, frag­mented and often lack­ing any sort of sense. Hanne states, “The pre­sen­ta­tion of dif­fer­ent rooms or ‘des­o­lated spaces’ ...

When I received Vice Magazine’s 2010 Photo Issue, the first word that came to mind was vis­ceral. The cover itself is a photo of rot­ting fruit, a ref­er­ence to Dutch still life paint­ing from the 15th and 16th cen­turies. Not a small printed pub­li­ca­tion, the fruit is enlarged with tex­ture. And, thumb­ing through the rest ...

While writ­ing this, I am sit­ting near the water in Bal­ti­more. Sail­ing on a Very Fine Day seems like an appro­pri­ate thing to share, no? (Also, I love ban­jos, wish I could play one). The book is illus­trated by Ber­nice and Lou Myers. Sail­ing on a Very Fine Dayis a Golden Book, orig­i­nally pub­lished in 1954. ...

Andrea Dezsö is a pro­lific visual artist whose work spans draw­ing, book mak­ing, cut paper, embroi­dery, and pub­lic art. Andrea’s work shows a keen under­stand­ing of media and visu­als, and it is obvi­ous that she appeals to a wide array of of view­ers. I am par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in her artist books and embroidery. Her tun­nel books ...

Lines and Shapes is an inde­pen­dent design col­lec­tive with a rotat­ing group of artist. Each issue is curated by Maria Vettese and Lena Cor­win. Lines and Shapes works like this: each issue of Artist Series, artists that are involved in the book get a word, or a phrase — a jump­ing off point. They then ...

Nina Kaun is a Ger­man illus­tra­tor whose grace­ful illus­tra­tors are fre­quently included in books — both hand sewn and lim­ited run. Her style is extremely del­i­cate; the line weight and nuances of each shape look so soft, yet it’s all very sure of itself, as if every­thing is in its right place. I think her work ...

After writ­ing about Ben Javens, I can’t get Alice and Mar­tin Provensen off my brain. Their work is really superb and exactly what I’ve been in the mood to look at for the past few days. Mar­tin and Alice were a husband/wife illus­tra­tion and writ­ing team. Both orig­i­nally started as cartoonist/animators for Dis­ney and the Wal­ter ...