This is Chad’s last day of posting and I am sad to see him go! Chad, thank you for such a great week of sharing. For more of Chad visit him here or daily on his blog right here.

Flitting between the dimensions, this book sets out to document how 2-D skills and styles are moving into the 3-D realm and charts their slow, but irreversible conquest of space.

Whaaa!? No freaking way! Okay, if you can’t tell, I am super stoked on this book. With contributors like Friends With You, Steven Harrington, Dancemade, Thomas Allen and Chris Silva, TACTILE is truly a book that I think every artist and designer should own. The combination of sculpture, photography and print design is by far one of my favorite discoveries this year. Gots to love it. I am one of those people that dwell in the land of the unknown. This middle gray area between art and design. The same area that most of the artists in this book reside. I love it here. It’s a cosy discomfort. The only thing this makes it a little uncomfortable is trying to explain what it means to be in this gray area and why it exists.

© Julia Rothman 2007