Book By Its Cover » Embroidered Muscles

1.12.09

AndrÃ© Lemos

I got a package from Portuguese artist AndrÃ© Lemos telling me about his small publishing company Opuntia Books. He mainly focuses on publishing limited edition, one time only, artist’s book and zines. So far they’ve published 10 books, all handmade and numbered by AndrÃ©. AndrÃ© sent me three of these publications and the one I liked the best happened to be one of his own work. The cover has a drawing of some sort of muscle with thread actually sewn into it. The inside is color reproductions of AndrÃ©’s very strange drawings. You can learn more about this book and all the other books he’s published right here.
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4 Comments

01/12/09 6:44pm

rui vitorino santos wrote

AndrÃ© Lemos is brilliant, his publications itÂ´s one of the good editorial projects here.
Congratulations Julia, nice present.

this one is on my best 2008 list.

01/13/09 3:03pm

Esti wrote

This is truly worth checking. I like that thread on the cover.

01/22/09 11:52am

Silva wrote

I like this… it looks really surreal and darkly quirky… I just wish you would have posted better photos so we could see a whole illustration! I’d be interested to see the other two books you got as well.

01/22/09 7:47pm

koelle wrote

that is really gorgeous. and kind of creepy, haha. another wonderful discovery…. mmmm. yay!

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