Photo courtesy of Chris Burnside The Free Book Incident (FBI), a month-long experiment & celebration of books & community. Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers and Olson Kundig Architects have partnered to create a unique environment to celebrate the power of books and investigate what can happen when they are available for free. FBI is inspired in part by The Book Thing of Baltimore, an ongoing free book exchange whose "mission is to put unwanted books into the hands of those who want them". Wessel & Lieberman will be donating the books and Olson Kundig will be creating the space, which...
Pinterest meets Amazon at Scroll.Am
Scroll.Am homepageImagine taking a Pinterest-style scroll through the Amazon product database.Scroll.Am, was developed by Amsterdam-based designer and med student Jonathan Bouman. Bouman, who derives his motivation from his love of mashups, scrolling and Amazon, built a similar site last year which provided a nifty way to scroll Reddit.Every product leads with a visual and all the data and sharing opportunities you need is just a mouse-over away. Books category home page Clearly applicable to non-new books as well. With a little tweaking you could see it as a formidable online-catalog format for booksellers. The idea of wrapping the image with the necessary related content and delivering...
Engaged. The Women of Catherine Chauloux
In search of lost words. Oil on canvas, 40x40 cmWelcome to the world of French artist Catherine Chauloux (1957- ) where women are routinely engulfed in reading, writing and books. They are all actively engaged and completely absorbed in the act, each exuding two of the finer fruits of reading - confidence and independence.Enjoy.Words. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cmErasures. Oil on canvas, 60x60 cmMedievalists. Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cmShipbuilding Oil on canvas, 60x60 cmHildegarde. Oil on canvas, 40x40 cmAeronautica. Oil on canvas, 80x80cm
Reading Habits by Place
The latest survey from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project focuses on how residents of different communities (ie: urban, surburban, rural) read and use reading-related technology and institutions.Reading Habits in Different Communities | Pew Internet Libraries
The Book as the Starting Point
Why not just turn publishing on its head and try to change the world right off the bat?Welcome to Sharp Stuff a new publisher born from the confines of one of the great ad agencies on the planet, Wieden+Kennedy. Their mission: to explore "the boundaries of story building" by being a "rapid release content shop that hacks current formats to create new forms.""The book as the starting point, not the end game" is our approach says Jake Dockter, Director of Communications and Content.Their first project wastes no time in pushing the boundaries. Created in three months, American Dreamers "mixes the fluidity and dynamism...