Looking for an inexpensive book-friendly way to hide and protect you new iPad?Welcome to the iBook.For $10 and a little time you can learn to cover your iPad with a book.Here are the reasons that propelled the creator of iBook:- Didn’t want to drop $40 for Apple’s iPad case- iPad back scratches easily, I hate to rest it naked on the table- I feel like a pretentious bastard using the iPad in public because everyone knows what it is, but few people have one — this helps me disguise it while in use- On a similar note, the iPad feels...
Book This Room at the Michelberger Hotel
It's called The Clever Room and it's one of the rooms in Berlin's recently opened boutique hotel, The Michelberger.They describe it this way:"Boost your IQ in Till & Werner's private library. A big screen TV, an extra-large double bed, bathtub by the window, and loads to read"Imagine being a book designer and staying here. Paradise or Purgatory? And there's more.The hotel bar is also awash in books including some pretty nifty handmade book lighting.Being in Berlin surrounded by books for about $100 a night seems hard to beat. Thanks to Design Crisis for the lead
Book Letters
Here's some cool book love out of the Stockholm design firm Byggstudio.An Alphabet:and a vectorized font:Thanks to Swissmiss for the lead
Tattooed Penguins: Six Books Get Inked
Bert KrakThe latest nifty offering from Penguin is a series called Penguin Inks where tattoo artists were commissioned to come up with cover designs for 6 modern classics.Chris ConnThe series is set to debut in June.More at Shelf Talk, the book blog of Entertainment Weekly.While we're talking tatts. Here's a women who sacrificed her back and arms for Alice in Wonderland.click image to enlargeand finally, don't forget Jeff Johnson's recent acclaimed memoir Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink.Thanks to @mikecane for the lead on the Alice tattoo
Sit and Read: The chair bookcase bookcase chair
Talk about killing two birds with one stone. This gem was "developed as a chair and a bookcase simultaneously, the intention was to provide both the storage for and a seat in which to read."It was designed by Gail Peter Borden. Borden is the Borden of the architecture firm Borden Partnership and is a professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.The design of the chair bookcase bookcase chair "focused on sustainability", with each chair using over 90% of a 4'x8' sheet of plywood. It is "based on the hybrid dimensions of Le Corbusier's infamous leather and metal...