The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich. Design by Jonathan Gray Joseph Sullivan of The Book Design Review has posted his favorite book covers of 2008.He offers 27 shining examples of contemporary cover design. You can also, through the end of the year, vote for your favorite. Currently, David Pearson's design of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is in the lead.The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionDesign by David PearsonOne not on list that deserves mention is Charlotte Strick's design of Roberto Bolano's 2666. The book, published by Farrar, Strauss and...
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Now you can turn your library into a box spring.The folks over at Flying Beds have devised this monstrosity where your books become "the bedface" in their "unique Bookcase application." The books are "siliconed into position to add that deception theme."Thanks to the Bookshelf blog for the lead
"To See Existing Things In a New Way" : The Book-Inspired Jewelry of Janna Syvanoja
I recently found myself lost in the pages of a glorious exhibition catalog titled DESIGNED FOR DELIGHT: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts (Flammarion, 1997) which documents a traveling exhibition organized by the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts. In the section "Inversion and Transformation," a beautiful and evocative photograph of a necklace by Finnish artist Janna Syvanoja entitled "Books" (1990) mesmerized me. The necklace captures the experience of viewing a row of books with gilt edges from above. There is a lyrical simplicity to it all. She isolates one aspect of our experience of the book and revels in its...
A Coin of Beauty : The New Commemorative Dutch 5 Euro
click to enlargeHere is Stani Michiels amazing design for the new commemorative Dutch five euro. It was the winning design in a competition organized by the Dutch Ministry of Finance. The theme of the competition was the 'Netherlands and Architecture'.The front is a typographical marvel featuring a portrait of the queen which "is constructed with names of important Dutch architects. On the outside the names are clearly readable, while they slowly get smaller to the center. Under a magnifying glass all names are readable, but not with only the human eye. It is fascinating to see how an old medium...
DIY – Upside Down Bookshelf
I know parts of the book world are upside down these days but this one has my head spinning. - More cool how to projects