Symptom of Bibliomania - If this image begins to make you wonder whether you could put shelves in your bathroom.This bookshelf mirage comes to us from a bathroom in Tokyo via lloydiThanks to the Bookshelf blog for the lead
Bookbag & Worn Stories
Bookbag, 2008Lizania Cruz designed this canvas bag for Anthropologie. It was sent as a holiday gift to their better customers.Cruz also created this:Worn Stories, 2006 Found photograph, laser printed on fabric, then silkscreened as a dress pattern. Thanks to swissmiss for the lead
Malin Källman’s Evolving Bookcase
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...
Batman and Kidd
Noted book designer Chip Kidd is also an avid comic book fan. In his recently released book Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan Kidd exposes us to the work of Jiro Kuwata. In the mid-1960's, during the heyday of Batman's television run in America Kuwata was commissioned to bring Batman and Robin to the Japanese manga crowd. Amazingly, the 400 page book represents only half of Kuwata's output during the one year he worked on the project.The book was published in October by Pantheon in a limited hardcover edition and in trade paperbackHere is a video tour of...
Book Bank
Savings Book. Designed by Jörg Gätjens, 2003. 8.5h x 5.75w x 2"d. Maple with with a cloth bindingIf your looking for a place to "cleverly conceal your savings or anything important,"of course this is assuming one has anything left to save these days, then the Savings Book is for you. It has a slot for coins and one for bills and slides open for easy access to your cash.The Savings Book is available exclusively at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) store. Originally priced at $90 the book bank is now on sale for $39.95You know things are bad when...