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The British Library’s 60,000-Book iPad App →Charleston, SC & London, UK — BiblioLabs, LLC and the British Library are proud to announce their British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad is now available on the App Store. |
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The Curious Misconception Surrounding Sentence Spacing →There’s a widespread misconception that “proper” English requires two word spaces after a sentence. |
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The Blue Lady’s New Look →From JKR, the Camden based packaging design agency, comes an intriguing collection of marketing and branding quips titled “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities: Posts from the Crossroads of Design and Marketing.” |
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John Fuller’s Sycamore Press →Ryan Roberts, purveyor of the official websites for Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, James Fenton, Hermione Lee, and Ian Hamilton, has authored “John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: a bibliographic history.” |
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Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926–2011 →A tribute to the late Doyald Young. |
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Traumgedanken →Traumgedanken is a book about a dream within a dream. |
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Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition →In 1906, a small university press in Chicago published its standardized typographical practices. |
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John Rodker’s Ovid Press →Gerald W. Cloud, author of John Rodker’s Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History, is an investigator with a bent for narrative writing about books. |
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The Moleskine Debossing Process →A charming video showing the process behind custom debossed Moleskines. |
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Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico (1818) is Online →A copy of Giambattista Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico has been photographed and posted by the Rare Book Room. |
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Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli →Hands down, Hyphen Press has the best typeset and thoughtfully bound books on type. |
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Jan Tschichold for Penguin Scores, 1949 →Oliver Tomas has posted some nice mid-century visual inspiration with his Penguin Book Covers Flickr Collection. |
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Moleskine Extra Small Planners →“A new video by dutch artist Rogier Wieland illustrates the new Moleskine Extra Small Planners, Weekly and Daily.” |
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Type In Print by Sergey Shapiro →Handlettered title made for a LiveJournal community dedicated to vintage books with “beautiful typography and calligraphy.” |
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Bracket →“Bracket is a conceived as a publication that features everything in between — ideas, voices and processes that are overlooked and under-appreciated.” |
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5 Year Datebook →“Black covered cover. Removable transparent plastic protective case. A two-page spread for each week. Daily schedule from 8am to 10pm.” |
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MyFonts’ Creative Characters by Jan Middendorp →Landing on my desk is this great compilation of type designer interviews done by Jan Middendorp for MyFonts entitled Creative Characters. |
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The Evolution of the Letter A by Emma Quayle →New Zealand designer Emma Quayle’s project explores how the form of the alphabet is changing with modern technology, using the letter A as an example. |
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The Whole Story Photo Book by Debra Folz →“A hybrid of traditional bookbinding techniques and contemporary engineering, they stand independently due to a reinforced front and back cover. A removeable binding allows the books contents to be expanded, allowing you to view your whole story.” http://www.debrafolz.com/ |
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The Story of Eames Furniture →In this video with Gestalten.tv, Marilyn and John Neuhart reflect on the 30 years they have worked at the Eames Office, its designers, products, and work culture. |
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