Do you remember 'backing' your books when you was in school? You could cover them with wallpaper, magazines, posters, stickers, patterns, anything really. I always thought this was a really cool way to show your personality and creativity.
I've seen this practice being used recently in those hipster bars around Manchester as a form of decoration. It's cheaper than buying wallpaper and its a fun collage activity which can reflect your personality.
You can use anything to make these wallpaper art collages, magazines, newspapers, old books, flyers or posters. It is a great way to make use of those pages of books, magazines etc which are really just too interesting to be kept hidden inside a book or magazine cover, and shouldn't be thrown away.
Making a collage can be fun and really doesn't take up that much time. First of all, find your images.
You can have images with a similar theme. Pages of fashion models pulled from Vogue. Images of singers and bands pulled from NME or Rolling Stone. Comic strips pulled out of your favourite comic books.
Or you can mix it up and have a range of photography, text, and drawing prints together in your collage.
Make sure you cut plenty of images, and don't be afraid to cut in a non-quadrilateral shape. Cut around the body shape of a person, follow lines in the image.
Fitting the images together- it's not a jigsaw. They might not fit perfectly but that is the delight of collage. You can plan where you want the images to go if you like, but it is also quite fun to work on a trial and error system. If one image doesn't quite fit, simply cover it with another image.
And if your landlord isn't crazy about the idea of you covering the walls with magazines/comics/newspapers, maybe make your collage on a large board which can be hung on the wall and taken down when necessary!
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