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The Open Daybook
Calendars are intrinsically interactive on a personal, individual level - you enter appointments, check dates, plan the future and revisit the past, all of which are keyed to your life and how it intersects with the lives of others. The Open Day Book serves as a perpetual calendar that can be used in a traditional manner, but also lets you interact with the work of more than 300 of today's most captivating artists, all of whom have visually responded to a day of the year.
The design of every dated page allows users to fill in their schedule or respond artistically to the work on the page, engaging with the artists and their work. The over 300 contributing artists have all created work especially for this book that is designed to be used as a daily journal, sketch book or admired as an art book.
The design of every dated page allows users to fill in their schedule or respond artistically to the work on the page, engaging with the artists and their work. The over 300 contributing artists have all created work especially for this book that is designed to be used as a daily journal, sketch book or admired as an art book.
- GenresArtNonfiction
384 pages, Hardcover
First published November 30, 2010
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December 1, 2010
Time and Creativity
David P. Earle is responsible for this most entertaining and unique 'calendar' -a book rich in art and ideas and thoughts and concepts from a total of 371 people (some in tandem with others) about whom the following was said by Earle: 'This book introduces you to a time as experienced and envisioned by 365 (an asterisk leads to the bottom of the page note that the number is actually 371) people, one for every day of the year. Over the course of twelve months, they were all given one day, 24 hours, to make a work of art.' What follows is a hefty book filled with a page for every day of the year and on every page is a work of art - photography, collage, drawing, painting, words, designs, rubbings - all ranging from touching to funny to disturbing. The uses of the book is up to the fortunate person who either buys this book or receives as a gift: there is ample room on each page to keep a personal diary, perhaps or perhaps not influenced by the core art on that page. It would be fascinating as a second project for Earle to collect these books after a year has passed and see just how enriched the original concept had become.
At the back of the book, following December 31 page naturally, is a list of all the artists who participated with a very brief but informative note about each. Then to top off the experience, the inside of the front and back covers of the book list in calendar format the names of the artists responsible for each of the pages. It is informative and adds to the fine idea originated by David P Earle, 'an artist and writer who lives in Los Angeles, though his roots are in Chicago'.
History has given us many examples of The Book of Hours, such as the medieval illuminated manuscripts. There are also historic precedents for The Book of Days -'a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar including anecdote, biography and history etc'. But important though these previous approaches have been, few provide the entertainment and insight as does THE OPEN DAYBOOK of David P. Earle. A great gift idea!
Grady Harp
David P. Earle is responsible for this most entertaining and unique 'calendar' -a book rich in art and ideas and thoughts and concepts from a total of 371 people (some in tandem with others) about whom the following was said by Earle: 'This book introduces you to a time as experienced and envisioned by 365 (an asterisk leads to the bottom of the page note that the number is actually 371) people, one for every day of the year. Over the course of twelve months, they were all given one day, 24 hours, to make a work of art.' What follows is a hefty book filled with a page for every day of the year and on every page is a work of art - photography, collage, drawing, painting, words, designs, rubbings - all ranging from touching to funny to disturbing. The uses of the book is up to the fortunate person who either buys this book or receives as a gift: there is ample room on each page to keep a personal diary, perhaps or perhaps not influenced by the core art on that page. It would be fascinating as a second project for Earle to collect these books after a year has passed and see just how enriched the original concept had become.
At the back of the book, following December 31 page naturally, is a list of all the artists who participated with a very brief but informative note about each. Then to top off the experience, the inside of the front and back covers of the book list in calendar format the names of the artists responsible for each of the pages. It is informative and adds to the fine idea originated by David P Earle, 'an artist and writer who lives in Los Angeles, though his roots are in Chicago'.
History has given us many examples of The Book of Hours, such as the medieval illuminated manuscripts. There are also historic precedents for The Book of Days -'a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar including anecdote, biography and history etc'. But important though these previous approaches have been, few provide the entertainment and insight as does THE OPEN DAYBOOK of David P. Earle. A great gift idea!
Grady Harp
April 11, 2012
It's fun to use it as a daily writing prompt,
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