Introducing Lumio, a book-looking lamp.Simply open the "book" and wham you have a lightweight portable lamp. No cords, no switches and 8 hours of battery life.Built in magnets let you attach the lamp to any number of surfaces. It can be used as a table lamp, a wall sconce, a ceiling pendant, for ambient or outdoor lighting, or any other creative use you can think of.Yes, even a reading light!Lumio will retail for $95. It is the brainchild of Max Gunawan and his Kickstarter campaign to fund the project has already far exceeded his initial goal.and the Kickstarter video: Man, this is...
Library in a Tin Can
The challenge: Do something cool with an Altoid Tin Can for the Wicked Vices Altered Tin Swap on craftster.org.And that is just what Tara Fields did by creating this mini-library!Enjoy!and as with any good bookcase one needs a place to keep the skulls :-)More photos at:Tiny Library Filled with Wee Books and a Deep, Dark, Secret. | craftser.org
The Free Book Incident: Nothing to Buy, Nothing to Return
Photo courtesy of Chris Burnside The Free Book Incident (FBI), a month-long experiment & celebration of books & community. Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers and Olson Kundig Architects have partnered to create a unique environment to celebrate the power of books and investigate what can happen when they are available for free. FBI is inspired in part by The Book Thing of Baltimore, an ongoing free book exchange whose "mission is to put unwanted books into the hands of those who want them". Wessel & Lieberman will be donating the books and Olson Kundig will be creating the space, which...
A Bottle Book For Heineken
Here is what the creative agency Cloud Factory came up with for the design of Heineken's new global brand book.It's called "The Heineken Bottle Book" and according to the creators is produced using a "design innovation unseen in book making." Based on the shape of Heineken's iconic bottle the design "employs folding and binding techniques in an innovative and new way to reveal a “message in a bottle” that will never disappear on any bookshelf."I'll drink to that.via DesignTAXI
The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center
This installment of In The Stacks takes us to The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center. The museum was founded by Yang Pei Ming who started collecting posters in 1995, the year the Chinese government ceased the long-standing practice of creating these propaganda-laced posters.The collection is "dedicated to documenting the changes of modern China as depicted on thousands upon thousands of striking posters from 1910 to 1990."The collection holds 6000 posters produced from 1940 to 1990. The museum also holds a significant collection of Shanghai Lady Calendar posters from 1910 to 1940.Shanghai Lady Calendar posterNPR's Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt pays a visit to the museumPreviously on In...