"The Man with the Golden Arm" (Otto Preminger, 1955). Based on the novel by Nelson Algren. Film.com recently paid tribute to legendary graphic designer Saul Bass by featuring the graphic work he did for the movies. Remembered for his incredible skill and seemingly unending creativity, a man who cared deeply about making things beautiful, even if no one else did. His work exists as a testament to the idea that good design can exist even in the most monetarily concerned places. From the late 1940’s until the early 1990’s, he created more than a dozen campaigns for films, with an...
Photo of street kid reading stirs action in Manilla
"One would think that the last place to find a starved and unkempt street urchin is in a book store." He was shoeless and wearing tattered clothes when Sedricke Lapuz, an Assistant Professor at UP-Manila, snapped this shot of him reading a book on the floor of the Pedro Gil branch of the bookshop Booksale back in May. Lapuz was amazed at the child's apparent passion for reading and submitted the photo to YouScooper, the citizen journalism arm of the website GMA News Online, "The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere," hoping to raise awareness of the child's plight. GMA ran the story a couple of...
Tell a Story: Bringing literature to the tourists
If you happen to be visiting Lisbon any time soon you might run into this blue book van at one of the cities main attractions. The project is called Tell a Story and was created by the Portuguese advertising agency MSTF Partners. The goal is to expose visitors to a wide array of Portuguese literature in translation, in other words, to tourists that do not speak Portuguese. What visitor to Portugal wouldn't benefit from a little José Saramago, Fernando Pessoa, or Eça de Queiroz ? Luckily, Tell a Story is not a one-way street. "There's no better way to remember a journey than a book. And...
In the Stacks: The Getty Museum opens up
Unknown , Fragment of Homer's Odyssey. Greek, 1st century B.C. The venerable J. Paul Getty Museum has opened its digital doors with the launch of their Open Content Program. Today the Getty becomes an even more engaged digital citizen, one that shares its collections, research, and knowledge more openly than ever before. We’ve launched the Open Content Program to share, freely and without restriction, as many of the Getty’s digital resources as possible. Over 4,500 high-resolution images spanning their amazing collection have been unleashed; from their outstanding collection of illuminated manuscripts to their strong holdings in contemporary photography. Noting a recent Horizon Report, Museum...
The Evolution of the Little Free Library
The Little Free Library movement has been evolving pretty rapidly. Their mantra is simple - “Take a Book, Return a Book.” When the movement began in 2009 most libraries looked like nothing more than an extra-large painted birdhouse or mailbox. Currently over 10,000 little free libraries grace the land and these days some pretty amazing ones are popping up all over the country. Current map of Little Free Libraries in North America In New York City, The Architectural League of New York and the Pen World Voices Festival are behind some of the latest and greatest that have been appearing on...