[news] Altered Books as Utilitarian Art

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

I have recently come upon the art of “altered books.” You take an old book with solid binding, but defunct information, and remake the book into something else. You can take an old software manual, such as “Quickbooks 2000,” and remake it into a cookbook! You can take an old children’s book that is heavily scribbled upon, and turn it into a fabulous promo piece for your band! You can alter all kinds of books, by pasting, painting, folding, cutting, and sewing new things onto old book covers and pages. A book can transmute into an utterly different book via this art form.

  


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