One of the most extensive collections of playing cards ever assembled resides at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.Known as the Cary Collection, it consists of over 2600 packs of cards, 460 sheets of uncut card papers, and 150 wood blocks for printing cards. The Collection contains standard cards from 16 European countries and 6 countries in the Western Hemisphere, as well as nonstandard cards from 23 European and 3 Western Hemisphere countries, and its content represents over 500 years of cardmaking.The "nonstandard" cards include subjects like: Advertisement, Cartomancy, Education, History, Humor, and Souvenir types, many not intended...
Book Gris. Part II
Pierrot with Book ca. 1924Here is the second installment featuring the representation of books in the work of noted Cubist painter Juan Gris.Enjoy!The Open BookThe Book of MusicBook and GuitarStill Life with Guitar, book and newspaperStill Life with Book, 1913Previously on book patrol:Book Gris: Cubism, Juan Gris and the Book
Be mean with Shakespeare: The Shakespeare insult kit
Ready to throw the verbal knockout?Choose one word from each column - you weedy motley-minded scut!via
Letters for the birds
Check out these typographic bird houses by Indian industrial designer Nishant Jethi. The series is titled Living Typography and features the complete alphabet in hollowed out 3D letters.The bird houses also double as nameplates and/or house numbers!Now how cool is that.
Turn on the Light: Read Banned Books
Bookmans, an independent bookstore with six locations in Arizona, has created this beautiful video for the 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out,Enjoy!