Monday Marvels
For my first installment of Monday Marvels (marvelous insights and innovative imaginings brought to you only on Monday), I present to you the coolest idea in literature as art. Or art as literature. Imagine having the first fourteen chapters of Little Women, or another of your favorite all-time reads on a wall in your living room with the text as art. Cool idea, huh?
Postertext.com has a bunch of already-designed books-on-poster, all of them enhanced with a white silhouette of the character(s) in the book so that the poster is part image, part columns of alphabet.
With the e-book revolution firmly on the current landscape and even more so on the horizon, I think books that aren’t in some digitized form will become art. Perhaps not in my lifetime. Or my kids’ lifetime. But I am thinking in less than 100 years books will be still be books but they will not be made of paper, just like they are no longer on papyrus or on cave walls. Books will be electronic. Writers of books will still be in demand. And readers of books will still demand them. But the medium will change.
BUT books as art? Yes there will be those. Books made of paper and ink and form and substance? There will still be a market for those. It will just be different than it is now. And here is a clever start to picturing what is likely to be part of the coming attraction.
I am going to get one of these. Just need to decide which one. . . Which would you get? Or which book would you have made into a poster?
I am leaning toward Pride and Prejudice. Take a look. Isn’t it lovely? Thoughts, anyone, on any of this?