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Los Angeles based MizEnScen is obsessed with doing this. This very cryptic artist is a digital collage/illustration artist who cuts and pastes what looks like imagery from old, forgotten academic texts. She takes them and layers them atop of each other to make sometimes silly portraits to beautifully textured florals growing out of bones.

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12 Oct 2014 09:51:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Paper Anatomy by Lisa Nilsson

These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who are said to have made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time. I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section.

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14 Apr 2013 11:07:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Lego Anatomy by Jason Freeny

Jason Freeny is pretty well known for his dissection illustrations and toys, showing the inner workings of just about every pop culture icon or toy out there. His latest drool-worthy work is a trio of 18″ anatomical Lego men figures. You can see Jason’s entire creation process of these little masterpieces via his Facebook.

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10 Aug 2013 07:04:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Fantasy Book by Aniko Kolesnikova

Latvian designer and artist Aniko Kolesnikova, working under the name Mandarin Duck, creates fantastic hand made book covers using polymer clay.

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30 May 2015 11:54:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Transforming Books by Georgia Russell

Georgia Russell is a Scottish artist who slashes, cuts and dissects printed matter, transforming books, music scores, maps, newspapers and photographs into patterned abstractions that leave a resemblance of the original but transport it to another time and place where everything is fragmented, and always in flux.

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05 Jun 2012 12:53:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Book Art by Thomas Allen

American photographer Thomas Allen constructs witty and clever dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks. Using salacious pulp art drawing’s of the ’40s and ’50s that covered books such as ” I Married a Dead Man” and ” Marihuana Girl’, Allen constructs one set of pictures up close while obscuring another, and in the process creates a different context. Each piece is given a brand new storyline, though never quite strays from their cheeky origins.

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05 Dec 2012 13:01:00,post received 0 comments

Fact 3D Written Portrait Books

Louis Van Gaal

The agency Van Wanter Etcetera collaborated with Souverein to create the “Written Portraits” series of 3D author to promote literature and autobiographies in Holland. The series of artworks was produced to promote Dutch Book Week this year.

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11 Dec 2012 12:00:00,post received 0 comments

Wow The Anatomy of Tech Gadgets by Mads Peitersen

Mads Peitersen, a professional artist from Denmark, came up with a clever idea of illustrating the anatomy of technology gadgets. Some of the following drawings are commissioned by the manufacturer and some are just for fun. Enjoy!

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31 Jul 2012 06:01:00,post received 0 comments