Designing Fictions by Michael L. Ross David Drummond is book designer and illustrator working out of Elgin, Québec, Canada. He is the founder of Salamander Hill Design, a creative shop that produces posters, book covers, promotional materials, magazine illustration, packaging and identity development for a variety of clients. Here's a selection of his book work: Dog Ear by Jim Johnstone Dead Man's Float by Nicholas Maes Interlinguicity, Internationality and Shakespeare by Michael Saenger Time in Time by Mark Smith Trio by Sarah Tolmie L'Enfance de L'art by Jerome Miniere Much more at his blog
Five Book (and one record) Birthday Salute to Wallace Stevens
Harmonium (First Edition, first issue, signed). The poet's first collection, published when he was 44 years old, after almost a decade of appearances only in magazines. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room to his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends. -from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction Today is the birthday of Wallace Stevens. Literary critic Harold Bloom called Stevens "the best...
Get Your Spooky On and Help R. L. Stine Write a Story
OK now it's October and we can't start smelling Halloween. Let's start with Mr. Goosebumps himself R.L. Stine partnering with Wattpad for ‘The R.L. Stine Fill In The Fear Contest,’ which provides an opportunity for you to write a story with him. Here's how it works: - R.L. Stine writes the beginning of a short Fear Street story - you write the middle - he picks the winning entry and then writes the ending Then on Halloween we get to see who Stine chose and read the ending to the story. Sounds fun, now get writing. All the rules here
Calgary’s New Public Library will be one for the ages
The latest entry in the elite coolest libraries on the planet club comes from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The competition-winning design from Snøhetta and DIALOG rings in the new while melding into the surrounding communities. The new design will realize the city’s vision for a technologically advanced public space for innovation, research and collaboration while embracing the city’s diverse urban culture and unique climate. Upon entering the library, visitors encounter a lobby awash with natural light. Your eye is drawn up through the sky lit atrium where clear visibility of the library’s public program and circulation along the atrium’s perimeter serve as a wayfinding...
The Book Planters of Do Myoung Kim
Ah (sprout) - Ah (ego) 2004 The Google Cultural Institute is a concentrated "effort to make important cultural material available and accessible to everyone and to digitally preserve it to educate and inspire future generations." A healthy component of the Institute is the Art Project, where Google has partnered with hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives to bring their collections online. One of the organizations on board is the Korean Art Museum Association and lucky for us their holdings include a nice sampling of work by artist Do Myoung Kim. As Kim's work reminds us there's a lot of life in those books. Enjoy. The...