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Incidental Media

by Dan on November 4, 2010

I’m not exactly sure how the ideas in these videos by Dentsu London and BERG relate to books and print, but I’m pretty sure they do in some tangential way.

There’s a lovely sense of how new media can connect and adapt old media in interesting, unobtrusive ways, and it seems much more human-shaped than the rather linear idea that a new technologies must replace or destroy existing ones:

(via Russell Davies)

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Bread and Surfing

by Dan on September 11, 2010

I posted this documentary short about baker Chad Robertson, co-founder of Tartine Bakery & Café in San Francisco and author of Tartine Bread, on the Raincoast Books blog yesterday. I wanted to share it here as well because there is definitely something inspiring about Chad’s process, enthusiasm, and dedication to his craft. And he’s a surfer…

(Disclosure: Tartine Bread is published by Chronicle Books, who are distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books)

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The Abolition of Built-In Obsolescence

March 29, 2010

A nice short video about Dieter Rams’ design philosophy and the recent exhibition of his work at the Design Museum London: What has this got to do with books? Well, it’s a timely reminder to care about what we make… (video via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals) Tweet

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Delivered in Beta

February 9, 2010

Delivered in Beta is a short documentary about design, products, social media, and creativity (amongst other things) created during the Open Design Workshop at the Betahaus as part of Social Media Week Berlin 2010: Any thoughts how this applies to books? (via SwissMiss) Tweet

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Something for the Weekend, July 24th, 2009

July 24, 2009

Group Thinkery — Book-designing, tuba-playing Christopher Tobias has launched a new blog to discuss books, design, and publishing. Group Thinkery is also on Twitter. I came across the stellar portfolio of High Design’s David High — which includes this rather brilliant cover for The Management Myth for W.W. Norton — earlier this week thanks to [...]

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