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"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."
- Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962

"Books were only one type of receptacle where we started a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical about them at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stiched the patches of the universe together into one garment."
- Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1951

Wednesday, May 23

Summer Night from cartoonist Grant Snider

Tags: #books #text #words #art #illustration #comics #comic strip

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Thursday, April 19

The Essential Library

Jose Roosevelt

(Source: beinart.org)

Tags: #books #library #literature

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Wednesday, April 11

The Effect of a Book, Extending Beyond the Form by João Machado

A wonderful little video that shows the largely unnoticed beautiful ballet that our hands make as we hold a book and read.

Tags: #books #reading #form and function #dance

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Book Igloo →

I will take mine with a beach view please.

Tags: #books #sculpture #heaven

Sunday, April 8

Change is hard but the challenge thrown down from digital is not to lament what is lost but rise to the challenge of what is now possible. Chip Kidd is too good of a book designer to not see this and ultimately succumb to the lure of of a new continent. Audio, video, image transitions, buttons, thumbnail to full screen, interactive fonts, all these things are among new resources to be mined from digital books.

Chip Kidd mourns what is lost in this Ted Talk but it is worth watching for his examples of solving complex design issues with simplicity and truth. Digital books do not preclude this, you just need to learn the new language of the natives.

shhhimreading:

Yay! Calling all book fetishists. The best articulation of what we concede in the move from print to digital I’ve heard to date. Also, Chip Kidd is my new favorite person.

Tags: #Books #Design #ebooks #digital publishing #Kindle #Nook #iPad #Did Chip Kidd just come from Barber Shop Quartet practice?

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