Bookbag, 2008Lizania Cruz designed this canvas bag for Anthropologie. It was sent as a holiday gift to their better customers.Cruz also created this:Worn Stories, 2006 Found photograph, laser printed on fabric, then silkscreened as a dress pattern. Thanks to swissmiss for the lead
More From John Marshall
John Marshall, at center, in this image from the Daily BeastFormer Seattle P-I book critic John Marshall follows up his final P-I story with a piece at the Daily Beast."There are many things that I will miss about being the book guy at the Seattle P-I and one of the most sorely missed will be the chance to give a boost to a book and an author who truly deserved it. During these difficult days for the printed word, they need all the help they can get."
The Madness of the CPSIA and How Google and Amazon Might Benefit
Photo via mike.julianne on FlickrLast summer Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA). While well intentioned, being primarily a result of the toys being made with in China with lead paint scare that swept the country, CPSIA has potential catastrophic consequences for the book world. What's the problem? Any book printed before 1986 becomes illegal in the hands of children.Author David Niall Wilson sums it up nicely in his post, Burning Books for Consumer Safety:Under this law...very strict testing is imposed on every children’s book published before 1985 (It really did start in 1984 Mr. Orwell…right...
Malin Källman’s Evolving Bookcase
click to enlargeMalin Källman is a product design student at Edinburgh College of Art. For her final project she is building a bookcase using a methodology she is calling 'Design by Darwinism.'Her goal is "to take as much as possible of the design process out of my own hands in order to create an object that is created for the user not for the designer."She writes "The idea is to use the influence of potential users of the bookcase as my "natural selection" in order to Evolve it to its ultimate form. To do this I need lots of people...
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3/15quotesnack The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them - Abigail van Burenisn't that mark twain?