Mint

By now you may have heard of Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvoski, and Matt Lamothe‘s newest project, The Exquisite Book. It’s based on the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, which you might remember from an art class back in the day? The book is a modified version of the game, played by 100 artists, illustrators, and designers.

The artists were divided into ten groups, and each artist contributed one page to the book. The first artist was given a few words to inspire their drawing and the following artists only saw the page that immediately preceded their own. They then created a continuation to the story, and the inspiration for the next artist in line. The one rule? Each artist has a horizon line in their work that starts on the left side of the page and ends on the right. Where the horizon line of the first artist’s page ends, is where it begins for the next artist. You can see how it all works in this video:

The publisher, Chronicle Books, has generously offered us a 25% discount and free shipping on The Exquisite Book! Just enter EXQ at checkout*.

But before you run off to buy yourself a copy, I have even better news — leave a comment on this post between now and Tuesday, November 9th and I’ll choose one reader to win a copy of The Exquisite Book in addition to an Exquisite Book sketch book.

Ways you can enter:
1. Leave a comment on this post.
2. Link to this giveaway on facebook, your blog, and/or twitter, and leave another comment on this post with a link to your tweet/post.

I’ll randomly choose one winner on Wednesday the 10th.

Other bloggers participating in the book tour:
10/18 Design For Mankind
10/19 My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses
10/20 Creature Comforts
10/21 Oh Joy!
10/22 Pikaland
10/25 Print & Pattern
10/26 ReadyMade
10/28 The Post Family
10/29 Decor8
11/1 UPPERCASE
11/2 Mint
11/3 Grain Edit
11/5 7×7 Magazine

* full disclosure: Mint receives a small percentage of T.E.B. book sales made on the Chronicle Books site.