We are all well aware that the reading of books can open up new worlds but who knew you could fit the entire universe in a set of 12 books.Mishka Henner does just that with Astronomical; twelve hefty volumes representing a scale model of our solar system from the Sun to Pluto with the width of each page representing one million kilometers! The Sun pops up in Volume 1 and Pluto closes out the set on the last page of Volume 12 and there is a plethora of darkness in between and just like that the entire universe is contained between the...
The Life and Times of the Dust Jacket
Noun. dust jacket - a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed. Also called book jacket, dust cover, dust wrapperMost books printed since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have them. Unfortunately, there are many books that once had them that now don't. For the collector of these modern books the dust jacket represents the Holy Grail of value.One of the most noted examples is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's and Sons, the book is considered by many to be one of the great...
Fathoming Amazon: 9 things to know (Infographic)
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Letterpress and the Restaurant: Patricia Curtan’s Menus for Chez Panisse
It has been over 40 years since the legendary chef Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. While the restaurant became known for its single price-fixe menu it also set the stage for the Eat Local movement which would heavily influence the mind-set of many chefs, restaurants, and farmers around the world.Fortunately, during the early years there was a member of the kitchen staff who was an artist who also dabbled in letterpress printing.For Waters "saw the beauty and aesthetic of fine printing as a way to communicate at the outset of the diners experience the care and attention...
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- Bookflake - A Snowflake made out of red books via Paul Octavious