William Burroughs in front of sphinx at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. 1953. For this installment of In the Stacks we visit the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto and their fabulous collection of Allen Ginsberg's photographs. With almost 8,000 prints the collection is the largest repository of photographs by Allen Ginsberg in the world. William Burroughs at typewriter fixing Yage Letters typescript, E 7th street, NY. 1953And with 2014 being the 100th anniversary of the birth of fellow beat icon William Burroughs what better than a selection of photographs spanning almost 40 years of their seminal relationship....
Space saving bookshelf holds your dining room table
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43568516[/vimeo] Welcome to ‘As If From Nowhere’ a project by Irish designer Orla Reynolds that originated from Reynold's “imagining the home as a theatre stage.” Through her research focused on small living spaces, she found "the walls seemed to be the most wasted space" so Reynold's "decided to work within the dimensions of a bookcase" with the movement from bookcase to dining mimicking a scene change. Story in The Irish Post h/t Shelf Awareness
Using Images to Sell Books: 1980’s Style
This 1985 ad for The Literary Guild book club was chosen for inclusion in The World Advertising Review for 1985. Designed by Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) this seemingly innocuous ad was actually one of the first to use multiple book imagery within a print listing of available titles. As the entry states: it is a common practice for book club ads to display a section of titles available to subscribers. Usually, and boringly, they are stuck together in one part of the page. FCB has had the simply visually effective idea of using such pictures to break up the copy and...
What’s Your Favorite Animal? A benefit for the home for picture book art
To benefit the The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Henry Holt and Company and 14 "heroes of picture book art" have joined forces for the new book, What’s Your Favorite Animal? “The idea of getting some of the world’s most talented and beloved picture book creators to contribute to a book that benefits a museum celebrating the art of the picture book was just too perfect. We could not be more excited to be part of bringing this book to life,” says Jonathan Yaged, president of the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, which includes Henry Holt. The illustrious list of illustrators include Nick...
Retro posters in the fight to save libraries
Original US Treasury Department circa 1917 Back in 2011 when austerity measures were sweeping through the public library systems of the Western world as a result of failed economic policies, Phil Bradley came up with an idea. "What if the #savelibraries campaign had taken place between 1914-18?" Then, the government would pump out posters intended to stir up support for whatever the issue at hand was. Pushing out the scope to include the posters of WWII years Phil Bradley went to work enlisting the posters of yesteryear in the fight to save today's libraries. Enjoy! original text read ""The camp library...