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Artist Guy Laramée Carves a Mountainous Landscape from an Encyclopedia Britannica Set

Artist Guy Laramée Carves a Mountainous Landscape from an Encyclopedia Britannica Set | Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us | Scoop.it

In one of his most ambitious book sculptures to date artist Guy Laramée (previously here and here) created an homage to the printed Encyclopedia Britannica by transforming a 24-volume set into a sloping mountainous landscape. Titled Adieu, Laramée says the work was inspired in part by Encyclopedia Britannica’s announcement that after 244 years the would cease printing its iconic multi-volume book sets. 

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Turning an outdated reference source into a work of art isn't easy, but French artist Guy Laramee made it happen. The work was inspired by Encyclopedia Britannica announcing that it would no longer print its multi-volume book sets. 

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Look at This Lady's Amazing 3-D Printed Selfie | Wired.com

Look at This Lady's Amazing 3-D Printed Selfie | Wired.com | Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us | Scoop.it
Despite its thoroughly modern origins, it looks like a fragment of a fresco recovered from the ruins of Pompeii.
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The first known selfie was taken in 1914, but this artist took her self portraits to the next level, replicating photographs she took of herself onto distorted pieces of plastic using 3-D printing.


Lorna Barnshaw isn't even recognizable in most of the sculptures, because the printing technique distorted the images. But the properly shaped selfie sculptures are even creepier, because it's so obvious it's only a replication of a real person.

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