The Sketchbook Project, in Brooklyn, is a bookshop that makes available the travel journals of thousands of travelers.
Congratulations to Brooklyn’s Sketchbook Project, which in less than 10 years has collected over 70,000 travel journals from all over the world!
The concept behind this unique bookshop? Invite artists (or not) to express their art on a blank sketchbook. Young talents from all over the world can create, express their thoughts and reflections, and above all share their journey in a unique and artistic way. Once the sketchbook is finished, it goes before a jury who assigns a reference and decides whether or not to place it in the bookshop. In this way, all visitors can leaf through what are more like works of art than mere travel journals.
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Located in the heart of the trendy Williamsburg district in Brooklyn, New York, the Sketchbook Project was born not in New York, but in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2006. It was only three years later that founders Steven Peterman and Shane Zucker decided to bring their unusual bookshop project to the Big Apple. An extraordinary project, because today this collaborative library is a real success!
Initially, Peterman and Zucker had no idea how it would turn out… As the preface to their new book puts it: « We didn’t know how far the project would take us when we launched it ». Now reassured, they declare, « there is now a place where everyone is accepted, laying the foundations for a new community! »
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This book, entitled The Sketchbook World Tour, is aptly named, as it lists the best travel diaries of all these artists from all over the world… Argentina, Croatia, South Africa and Japan; in short, some 130 countries from all continents! A 256-page book devoted entirely to this extraordinary library.
The least we can say is that this bookshop invites you to travel in such a unique and poetic way. Right in the heart of Brooklyn’s hipster district, this bookshop has found the perfect location and welcomes hundreds of people every day to discover these itinerant travel journals!
While you’re in New York, don’t forget to check it out: the Brooklyn Art Library is definitely one of the things to do in Williamsburg!
Photo credit: Facebook – The Sketchbook Project