"MOTHER" by Judy Olausen

As I mentioned before, I collect beautiful books. Books which inspire me by their deisgn or artistic content. One of those books is "MOTHER" by the photographer Judy Olausen. This special book is filled with humorous and beautiful  photographs Olausen took of her mother.

from Amazon review: Photographer Judy Olausen and her 74-year-old mother Vivian--a model with tightly permed blond hair, soft, wrinkled grandmotherly skin, and an extraordinarily expressive face--skewer the clichés of 1950s motherhood and martyrdom. In one shot, Vivian appears as a slightly deranged Betty Crocker, frosting a heart-shaped cake with Valium icing. In another, she's in chains hunched over an ironing board. As the archetypal "Mother Under Pressure," she sports cat glasses, white gloves, and a prim purse while dragging a huge bolder upstairs on her back. In "Shocked by Spock," reading that venerable pediatric bible causes alarm and a near-faint. The collection delivers a wallop of edgy humor and social commentary about women being silenced or squelched in their daily lives and dreams.

artist website:  http://www.olausen.com/index.html

Journals and Ideas books

One of my passions in life is beautiful books. I collect designed books, artist’s books, journals and sketch books.

At 2005 I designed, illustrated and wrote a journal called “Imal’e – a pregnancy diary” published by Babel publishing. It is a creative diary in which the pregnant woman can follow a designed grid and fill in her thoughts and emotions every week. She can write, draw, collage and use it as a sketch book. The text in the book is sincere and blunt written by experienced mothers. It is made to be a keepsake and a time capsule of an unforgettable time in a woman’s life.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Jill Bliss is an artist and a designer. She creates beautiful paper and fabric goods and designs very special journals. You can check out her work at: http://www.jillbliss.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few years ago I bought a journal called “This book will change your life” by Benrik. It is a crazy book, chaotic and colorful design and gives 365 daily instructions for hysterical living. Since then they published more journals of this kind called: This Diary Will Change Your Life, The Couple's Book, Lose Weight! Get Laid! Find God! Find out more at: http://www.benrik.co.uk/content/books.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another special “ideas book” is “The Guerilla art kit” by Keri Smith. http://www.kerismith.com/