Immersion in the most original bookshops in Brooklyn

The Sketchbook Project, in Brooklyn, is a bookstore that makes thousands of travellers available.

The Brooklyn Sketchbook Project, which has been able to harvest more than 70,000 travel books from all over the world in less than 10 years!

The concept of this unique bookstore? Invite artists (or not elsewhere) to express their art on a blank sketchbook. Young talents from all over the world can then create, express their thoughts, reflections, but also and above all share their journey in a singular and artistic way. Once the booklet is finished, it passes before a jury who assigns a reference and decides whether to place it in the bookstore. Thus all visitors can look at what is more similar to artistic works rather than just travel books.

Located in the heart of the city trendy district of Williamsburg In Brooklyn, New York, the Sketchbook Project was born not in New York but in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2006. It was only three years after founders Steven Peterman and Shane Zucker decided to import their unusual bookshop project in the Big Apple. An extraordinary project because today this collaborative library is a real success!

Originally, Peterman and Zucker did not know at all how this would lead to... It can even be read in the preface of their new work: “We didn’t know how far the project was going to lead us when we started it” . Today reassured, they declare: “There is now a place where everyone is accepted, laying the foundations of a new community! »

This book entitled The Sketchbook World Tour carries his name very well because he lists the best travel books of all these artists from all over the world... Argentina, Croatia, South Africa and Japan; Brief about 130 countries, all continents! A book of 256 pages entirely dedicated to this extraordinary library.

The least we can say is that this bookshop invites you to travel in a unique and poetic way. In the heart of hipster district from Brooklyn, this bookstore found the perfect location and receives hundreds of people every day, come to discover these travelling travel books! From New York, don’t forget to take a look at it, Brooklyn Art Library Probably part of the things to do in Williamsburg!