Friday, November 14, 2008

eBOOK

For an exhibition entitled Blood on Paper, artists were given a book and asked to customise it.

Richard Shed got a 60-year-old Penguin Classics copy of The New Machiavelli which he digitised - scanning in every page - and then put the contents on a USB device made to look like the original book. Read on...

It brings a whole new meaning to the term eBook and what a great promotional idea this would make for a publisher who's just launched eBooks -- hint, hint, hint, Mills and Boon!

3 comments:

Sarita Leone said...

What an intriguing idea! And I love the way the little package looks, too. So visually appealing!

Jan Jones said...

Now that is clever!

Kate Hardy said...

Clever and appealing. (Like the slide of a light-switch I saw projected onto a wall at the Tate Modern - really good idea.)

Thanks for sharing :o)