May 11, 2012
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It Will All Be Over Before You Know It… – A six-page, six-chapter comic by the brilliant Richard Sala (a must for fans of Edward Gorey, I’d say). Something Lost — Edmund de Waal, ceramicist and author of The Hare with Amber … Continue reading
February 10, 2012
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James Victore shares his workspace with From The Desk Of. Burn Unit — At the New York Times ’Bits’ blog, David Streitfeld writes on Amazon’s recent image problems: [Take] the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek two weeks ago. It shows a book … Continue reading
October 4, 2011
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WNYC’s Leonard Lopate spoke to ceramicist Edmund de Waal yesterday about his award-winning book The Hare With Amber Eyes: Later in the same show, Lopate also spoke to Canadian author Michael Ondaatje about his new novel The Cat’s Table. Coincidentally, Ondaatje was in the audience … Continue reading
April 6, 2011
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Book Art: Iconic Sculptures and Installations Made from Books by Paul Sloman, a 220-page overview of contemporary art, installation, and design created with and from books , published Gestalten. La Mémoire Retrouvée — Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare … Continue reading
April 1, 2011
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A Swiss Typeface + 2 Italian Designers = New York City — Michael Bierut reviews Helvetica and the New York City Subway System by Paul Shaw for the WSJ: Mr. Shaw is irritated with the widespread belief that the modern … Continue reading