Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Atlas For The Blind
"It is known that the contrivances hither to used in Europe for the instruction of the blind in geography, are very expensive, rude, or imperfect, hardly deserving the name of maps."
David Rumsey
[notcot]
*see also SpY, Leah Evans, Karen O'Leary, Yukata Sone.
Maurice Sendak 1928-2012
"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more," said Sendak .
Traumgedanken
"Maria Fischer's 'Traumgedanken' book is a collection of 'literary, philosophical, psychological and scientifical texts' about dreams. The book uses threads pierced through the pages and affixed to other pages to make physical hyperlinks between ideas. "
"On five pages there are illustrations made out of thread. Their shape and colour relies on the key words on the opposite page. This way an abstract image of the dream about dreaming is generated."Maria Fischer
[Boing Boing]
ACA Food Free Library Project
In 2009 Karyn Olivier installed a library in the local ACA Food Store, a West Indian market in the community. For the project, entitled ACA Food Free Library Project, Olivier has placed books by Carribean authors strategically around the grocery store and the books can be checked out free of charge.
[flores en el ático]
[flores en el ático]
Hembakat är Bäst
Its hard to pick only a few pages to show from "Homemade is Best", the beautiful baking book from IKEA, shot by Carl Kleiner & Evelina Bratell
[craftzine]
A Collaborative Game
The Exquisite Book
"Each [illustrator] adorns a page with artwork having seen only the page of the artist immediately prior and using a single horizon line to connect the two. Some continue the "story" quite literally while others build on the previous page in more fanciful ways."
[Book By It's Cover]
Hard Covers
These beautifully bound book struck a cord with me. Stunning.
Xylobooks by Container Corps
[Gute Seiten]
Pictoral Webster's
Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.
John M. Carrera is a printer, bookbinder, and artist who painstakingly cleaned and restored the engravings in "Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities". This video examines the fascinating & meticulous process of bringing this book back to life.
[Drawn!]
Le Monde des Montagnes
Camille Scherrer's "Le Monde des Montagnes" looks through the eye of a camera to an invisible universe beyond what is printed. Between strange page after page memories and stories, the reader discovers a lively world that blends reality.
[Notcot]
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