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...
Twitter prolems
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?
Mixing the New with Old : 21 New(er) Books We Like
Display table at Wessel & Lieberman that holds many of the 21 New(er) Books We LikeFor those who follow Book Patrol you've heard this song before. For a bookshop to survive in today's rapidly changing landscape one must take a more integrated, holistic approach to bookselling. The days of being able to survive selling just new books, or to a lesser extent used books, are just about up. The current seismic tremors in the publishing world coupled with the new and emerging modes of content delivery just might be the straw that breaks the traditional bookstore's back.Here in Seattle, in...
Books – "The New Wireless Platform"
click to enlargeThis clever webstrip, titled "Progress," appeared at Penny Arcade earlier this week.
A Test and a Survey
Brad Johnson of The Book Shop in Covina, CA has circulated this little test within the gates of Facebook. It was created in the late 1960's and is attributed to Charles B. Anderson of Anderson’s Book Shop in Larchmont, New York. The test is both humbling and encouraging and reminds me that one of the reasons I love bookselling is that the learning curve is always vertical.How Good a Bookman Are You?This is a test designed to determine your bookman’s I.Q. A score of 20 right should entitle you to consideration as the editor of the next edition of “The...