via Michael Johansson)
Looks like this piece, titled Merry Mirror, from 2010 follows Johansson’s Shelf-made Christmas tree from 2009 (featured previously here).
This is a great addition to the Unconsumption gallery of alternative Christmas trees.
(via lustik)
Another waste-free Christmas tree!
Our friends at the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco just shared with us a set of photos of their handsome 2011 book tree. The nine-foot-tall tree’s constructed from some 700 books — approximately 3,250 pounds’ worth. This year marks the third year that Gleeson Library’s had a book tree.
You might recall Gleeson Library’s Internet-famous 2010 tree, which we featured here last year and in this recent post on the spreading of the idea of building book trees. (A no-waste decorating trend involving books is a good trend in, ahem, my book.)
For additional photos of the 2011 Gleeson tree, see shawncalhoun’s set of photos on Flickr. (Thanks, Shawn, for the heads up!)
More books = more Christmas trees
Okay, so I keep thinking that I won’t post other holiday-related items. And then I come across things that we haven’t shared here on Unconsumption, and I feel compelled to post them!
So, here we go: Four additional examples of trees made from books.
(“Tree” pictured above via Goose Hill. Thanks to Annie for pointing it out to me.)
(via The Blog on the Bookshelf)
If you aren’t too worried about your books’ bindings/spines, you could make something like this:
(via Aga Inés on Flickr)
(via Real Simple)
For other book tree examples, check out these earlier Unconsumption posts. Tabletop trees? Look here. Alternative Christmas trees, in general, and other holiday tree-related posts: here.
Thanks to queenkimmie for this picture!
I usually don’t reblog items that don’t link to a source or don’t give any kind of attribution whatsoever, but in this case, I’m making an exception so this book tree post will be added to the mighty Unconsumption alternative tree archive. (Anybody know the source of this tree/photo?)
(via fuckyeahupcycle)
More books = more Christmas trees
To add to our post from last week about alternative Christmas trees constructed out of books, there’s this novel on-shelf “tree” made by Thatcher Wine and his colleagues at Juniper Books in Boulder (mentioned previously here and here).
Thirty olive-green law books, 24 of which were cut, comprise the eight-foot-tall tree. The books are substantial enough to stay upright on their own with no support placed behind them.
About the cutting/carving of books: Thatcher explains that there’s an abundant supply of law books, with law firms and university libraries no longer needing copies in print once they’ve digitized their holdings. He estimates that Juniper has repurposed some 10,000 law books this year, including thousands going to retailers and designers for “decoration and visual merchandising.” He adds that the cutting of two dozen books to make this display might have saved those unneeded books from a far worse fate!
(Via Christmas tree of books 2011 — JuniperBooks.com. Thanks, Thatcher!)
Related: Juniper Books’ 2010 tree made from 800 stacked books.
Books = Christmas trees
Do you remember our December 2010 post about a Christmas tree made from books at the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, or our post about this smaller book tree? Or perhaps you saw some mention last year of the book tree constructed by the folks at Juniper Books in Boulder?
Well, it looks like the book tree idea has caught on in other places. In Poland, librarians at the University Library of UWM (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn), made the above-pictured tree from 1,600 books. (That’s a lot of copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Joseph Heller’s Picture This!) Click here for details and here to view a Flickr stream showing 50+ shots of the tree, including several photos captured during the construction process, a how-to for others who want to build book trees.
And here’s a book tree located at the Inglewood Public Library, in the Los Angeles area.
Let us know if you spot other book trees elsewhere.
Related: Unconsumption posts about trees made from other non-traditional materials: shopping carts, bicycle parts, 40,000 plastic bottles, upside down tomato cages with strings of lights, wood scraps.
Hey, remember this Xmas tree made of books? Well here’s another one! Click through for the how-to, and make your own. From 2009, evidently. Via Bem Legaus.
Many of us are fond of books and finding creative uses for them. Here’s a use to add to our library of ideas (partial list here):
Make a Christmas tree out of them (via Recyclart)! At the end of the holiday season, simply reshelve the books.
Also spotted recently: trees made from non-traditional materials: wood scraps, shopping carts, bicycle parts.
