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Jonathon Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes relishes the physicality of paper and the ways in which it can be manipulated for enhanced value. Each page is die-cut to reveal only certain words – taken from The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz – in a printing technique that reveals a message in patterns.

This is one of those technical, pushing the envelope constructions that made publishers shy away until he found a CONFIDENT one.

This article displays other interesting book art as well, including many of the top image results you’ll get if you search for the term “book art.”