May 8, 2010
The Art of the Book
An amazing video featuring talks by Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd and Dave Eggers. Watch the whole thing: it’s incredible.
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An amazing video featuring talks by Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd and Dave Eggers. Watch the whole thing: it’s incredible.
Filed by vic at May 8th, 2010 under books
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Dear Barack Obama, I have a great idea for you: you should set up a special phone, a special place just for kids to call the president if they find things that are dangerous and can affect people, like someone smoking. This would be a special place for kids to talk to Barack Obama and [...]
Filed by vic at January 18th, 2009 under books
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The Book Design blog‘s made their choices for the best book covers of 2008. What do you think?
Filed by vic at December 1st, 2008 under books, design
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I don’t have much time so here’s a quick list of pluses from the last week or so: + the sorted books project by nina katchadourian + new shoes (and fulfilling a new year’s resolution to wear heels): + moving to london for a new job that i love + ellen gallagher at the tate [...]
Filed by vic at February 3rd, 2008 under art, books, design, shoes
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I got my new McSweeney’s in the mail today and inside are some lovely illustrations from Amy Jean Porter‘s Tiny Horses Say What series. So far, the series contains 16 of the world’s 200 horse breeds and she’s planning to do them all. Some of her other projects include: * North American Mammals Speak The [...]
Filed by vic at December 22nd, 2007 under books, illustration
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Oh my! I just found this incredible bookshop on The Cool Hunter. It’s in Maastricht in The Netherlands and it’s been erected inside an 800 year old former Dominican church. The bookshop was designed by Dutch architects Merkx + Girod whose major challenge lay in staying true to the church’s original charm while utilising the [...]
Filed by vic at December 5th, 2007 under books, design, inspiration, travel
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Christmas is just around the corner and instead of being a selfless, likable individual who offers advice to other people about what they can buy for their loved ones, I’m just going to tell you what I want for Christmas. This is purely my wishlist of books. I suspect it’s going to be long so [...]
Filed by vic at December 2nd, 2007 under books, wishlist
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I’m so excited! My copy of Frankie magazine‘s afternoon tea cookbook just arrived in the mail. It features 40 cake, biscuit, tart and slice recipes that have been handed down from grandmothers or mothers, all beautifully shot in a way that’s unmistakably Frankie. One of the best parts about it is that in the back [...]
Filed by vic at November 12th, 2007 under books, cake, food
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I’m in love with this spectacular blog called Book By Its Cover. It was started by Julia Rothman to showcase all the beautiful books she finds, and so far she’s amassed an incredible collection of some of the prettiest art, design and photography books around. And after finding this blog, my amazon wishlist has doubled [...]
Filed by vic at November 11th, 2007 under art, books, design, illustration, inspiration, wishlist
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This is such a phenomenal and inspiring idea from photographer Ami Sioux. Here is a blurb from the website that explains the project: The ” books project was born in East Berlin in 2003, where Ami had been living for three years. On various occasions, people had handed her a hand drawn map of directions to a party [...]
Filed by vic at October 11th, 2007 under books, illustration, inspiration, photography, wishlist
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I know this blog is meant to be about things I want to buy but this post is about things I’ve already bought that I love. Talk about an awesome haul. All of this arrived in the mail for me today. First is Marcel Dzama’s Berlin Years from McSweeney’s (some of which contain “golden ticket” [...]
Filed by vic at May 21st, 2007 under art, books, food
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