Check out these typographic bird houses by Indian industrial designer Nishant Jethi. The series is titled Living Typography and features the complete alphabet in hollowed out 3D letters. The bird houses also double as nameplates and/or house numbers! Now how cool is that.
Continue readingSnack on this: An international recipe book with “paper plate” pages to eat on. LunchBook is designed by Italian design team Sebastiano Ercoli and Alessandro Garlandini for the Expo Milano 2015 world exposition dedicated to food, sustainability and nutrition. This culinary world book contains international recipes encouraging the visitor to use its pages as plates and taste the many dishes from the Expo Milano stands. Once a page is used it can be easily removed. The pages have been…
Continue readingDesigner Fábio Galeazzo has hit a home run with his transformation of an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil into a stunning “Urban Cabin.” One of the centerpieces of the design is a circular bookshelf that was built to enhance the view and “increase communication” between the internal and external spaces. Wow! Many more pictures of this amazing project at the Contemporist
Continue readingNo, this isn’t one of those all too common stories lamenting the end of books. This is a story about a comfortable place for your books to rest. Now you can sleep side by side with your most cherished book. Open to you favorite passage or illustration and the book will rest as soundly as you until you are ready to re-engage. Welcome to the Rare Book Display Pillow courtesy of University Products. Here’s what…
Continue readingThe essence of a successful library is one that serves its community well. But what about those places that are hard to get to and where it is to costly to build a library? That’s where the bookmobile or mobile library comes in and this one might just take the cake. The Biebbus was specially designed for the people of the densely populated and difficult to navigate Zaan region of the Amsterdam metro area by…
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