Now I know fingerprints are not usually associated with the most positive of activities but artist Cheryl Sorg has come up with what might be the best use yet.Your own thumbprint transformed into a visual representation of the highlights of your reading life.Here's how it works:The artist will send you ink and some cardsyou stick your thumb in the ink and apply to cardmail inked cards back witha list of up to 50 of your favorite booksWait a few weeks and your three foot high thumbprint portrait will arriveHere's Sorg's homage to Haruki Murakami:and if that's not cool enough for you...
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...