Fort Collins, Colorado now has a bicycle lending library.The FC Bike Library is a "free service for residents, students, and visitors to Fort Collins. Members can borrow a bike for as short as one hour or for as long as a week (7days). FC Bike Library members also enjoy a variety of bicycles and bike trailers for children and cargo as well as tandems and tag-a-longs for older children."There are currently two locations and 50 bikes to choose from.Now this is an idea with legs.FC Bike Library websiteArticle at Denver's Channel 7 News
Printers Ornaments
Since the dawn of printing with moveable type printers have used various design elements to embellish the printed page.Design elements of the ornaments include typographic fleurons, dingbats, headpieces, tailpieces, scrolls, trophies, lunettes, calligraphic and heraldic devices, cupids and wreathes.BibliOdyssey has a tremendous post on this long-standing relationship of word and image and often overlooked aspect of book illustration. He has also put together a Flickr set with over 80 examples of the craft.
Thinking About Book Collecting?
Well so is Kristen Ogden. Her piece over at the Kenyon Review blog, "Antiquarian Book Collector Wanna-be", gives us a worthy peek into the process.Ogden says: "As it turns out, book collecting is pretty easy. Book Collecting As A Hobby by P.H. Muir offers a pretty good justification for buying first editions rather than spending half the cost of a first edition on a cheap paperback. If you know it’s an author or subject you’ll like, you might as well buy the good stuff because it’ll last longer, and if you ever get rid of it, you’ll get some sort...
Barbara Hodgson: Trading in Memories and Other Ways of Seeing Books
In her new book Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger's Favorite Places Barbara Hodgson takes us on an unforgettable trip around the world. From the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul to an ephemera show in Portland, Oregon we get a front row seat as Hodgson works her magic unearthing relics of material cultural. As the collector knows, the pursuit, in many cases, is as fulfilling as the acquisition.The fruit of travel is in "collecting fragments of people's material lives" says Hodgson in the introduction; in Naples it was tearing posters off the walls, in Portland it was a mugshot, in...
Pop-Up, Walk In
“Space Book” is a life-size wordless pop-up installation by designer Jin-Hui Kim.Though I couldn't find the dimensions for the piece it seems to dwarf the largest pop-up book on record. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Roger Culbertson's version of Aesop's Fables as the largest pop-up book on record. Culbertson's creation is 48" x 30" and weighed in at 28.5 pounds.Thanks to Yanko Design for the lead