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Midweek Miscellany

August 10, 2011

A profile of calligrapher DeAnn Singh at The LA Times: When the producers of “Mad Men” needed a note in cursive and a signature from Don Draper, they turned to Singh. “Something masculine and from the 1950s” was the request, though they eventually decided that the missive be typed… Ask her about computers, and she’ll tell [...]

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Laurence King on the Future of Design Publishing

August 9, 2011

In a great interview for Design Observer, UK publisher Laurence King discusses the future of design publishing with Mark Lamster: Illustrated book publishers, and in particular art publishers, need bookshops to survive, especially the increasingly rare specialist ones where there are discerning buyers who understand art, architecture and design. I think that these need to be treated [...]

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The Ark

August 24, 2010

Created by Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Ark is a free-standing wooden tower accessed by a spiral case that connects two floors of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The façades of the tower consist of hundreds of shelves, holding thousands of books, which visitors can browse. The books can be read in private chambers within [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

April 14, 2010

McGraw-Hill paperbacks designed by Rudolph De Harak — A nice Flickr set of vintage covers from Joe Kral, who apparently has an amazing book collection (via Words & Eggs). Free Libraries Are Full of Books That No One Reads — Author Paul Theroux talks to The Atlantic about e-books (via The Second Pass): I don’t [...]

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The Third & The Seventh

January 14, 2010

I’m fairly certain that every architect and designer on the planet has seen Alex Roman’s artful short film The Third & The Seventh already. But I haven’t seen it mentioned on any book blogs as yet, and so for the benefit of other architecturally-inclined book nerds who may not have caught it, I thought I [...]

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