2012 was the first year of the You Fab awards; a contest honoring the best in laser cutter design ideas from around the world. Japanese designer Yusuke Oono took home an award for this little gem, a small book that opens into a 3D journey in the round.On winning the award Oono said:I am so thrilled to have been selected as the winner of the Free Fab category for You Fab 2012. I like finding new ways to express dimension, and it occurred to me to create this palm-sized book that opens out to form a 3D world. I hope that everyone who opens...
The Spread of the Printing Press
I'll leave it to the students of printing history to determine the accuracy of this one but I just liked watching it.via reddit.
Denny’s to Visit Middle-Earth
Denny's is jumping on the Hobbit bandwagon. In anticipation of the upcoming film version of J. R. R. Tolkein's classic novel Denny's has created a special Middle-Earth inspired menu. Since hobbits eat breakfast twice a day and nosh about seven times a day it is probably not such a bad idea.Menu items include 11 breakfast, lunch and dinner items such as "Hobbit Hole Breakfast," "Frodo's Pot Roast Skillet," "Gandalf's Gobble Melt" and the "Build Your Own Hobbit Slam," which includes limited-time items such as "Shire Sausage." "We just felt with the two breakfasts that whole notion of comfort eating and...
Into the Wonderland of Books
Here is a sampling of Charles Santoso's series of illustrations, Into the Wonderland of Books, that were created for the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Sydney, Australia. The images were used in their holiday catalog and where also used for window and interior displays.See the entire series here
Introducing the Library Nurse
A.E. Araiza/ Arizona Daily Star "Daniel Lopez is not a librarian, but one of the nation's first library nurses."Pima County, Arizona has hired a registered nurse to peruse the stacks and assist many of homeless and downtrodden that frequent the county libraries.Building on the success of the San Francisco Public Library's hiring of a social worker in 2010, local library officials are fully committed to helping the underserved segments of their visitor pool.The problem is not an isolated one as Stephanie Inness reports in the Arizona Daily Star:Lopez is Pima County's novel answer to a common issue in public libraries across the country...