Just discovered a new exquisite-corpse-style book put together by 100 artists – it’s called “The Exquisite Book” and looks beautiful.
Illustrations here are by Mike Perry (totally hipster, if hipster weren’t a bad word these days), Camilla Engman (one of my very favorite illustrators) and Lab Partners (another collaborative team who does inspired work).
Make sure to check out the Previews & Process link, which is just full of awesome behind-the-scenes design mystery, which is my favorite stuff to see in art. I was once at a museum with a non-artist friend and got all giddy about an unfinished painting where you could see the different pencil sketches below the paint on the canvas. And my friend was like, “Why would they hang this in a museum? It’s not even finished.” So, if you’re that friend, maybe you don’t need to bother clicking on the link.
If only we could convince Chronicle to throw such a budget at us. We could be great. (Great like Alexander the Great, not great like the Great Depression.)
Discovered via Design Sponge.
