Media meister, Stephen Colbert, released his third book this week, America Again, now in 3D. In a recent book review he wrote for GQ, he offered to give it "three thumbs up out of four stars". This is from someone who also suggested the GQ editor use "Weepy Garamond" for the opening sentence, "It's no secret that America is hurting".I should have known the great American design team at Stephen Doyle Partners was responsible for designing Stephen Colbert's newest book...again. Doyle designer, Ben Tousley kindly shared this teaser video Doyle Partners made to celebrate it. It is a great example of smart and playful design,...
Words of Mystery
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "every word was once a poem", but where do these words come from? Independent filmmaker Jessica Oreck unfolds some of the etymological meaning of words in her new animated mini-series, Mysteries of Vernacular. Each word is skillfully constructed within the pages of old books, then animated in a 90 second short, often taking 80 hours or more to create. When complete, the Mysteries' shorts will contain 26 installments of word origins in alphabetical order. By day, Oreck produces documentary films on such topics as Russian folktales against a backdrop of war in The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, and Arctic Cowboys, about reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland. The Mysteries mini-series began as...
A bookmark on the loose
Much Better Now from Salon Alpin Check out the wild adventures of this bookmark in the award-winning short video, Much Better Now by Salon Alpine.
Bibliobiffy: Books in the Outhouse
The Bibliobarn is located in South Kortright, a town nestled in the Castkill Mountains of upstate New York. The shop is housed in a restored horse-and-carriage barn and out back in a converted outhouse is the shop's bargain book section. Mark M. Rodgers, the man who built the structure, calls it a "bibliobiffy."Amazingly enough, this isn't the first poop palace that has been transformed into a book depository.Remember the Happy Tales Bookshop in Wisconsin? You know, the one were they converted an old manure storage tank into a retail space! If not, here's one from the archives, our post from...
Book Domino
It was billed as the "World's Longest Children's Book Domino Rally"The folks at HarperCollins Children's Books decided to line up and knock down some books. A lot of books.I'm not sure what it says about the state of the publishing industry but it sure looked like fun. And, to boot, they executed flawlessly.Just imagine all the book domino possibilities; the potential settings, using particular titles, authors, etc.This could be the start of something.