1. Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook

    Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook | booktwo.org.

    via Toxi on Twitter

    Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook: @stml James archived his first 2 years on twitter as hardcopy book. Fantastic


  2. Jen Stark / Sculpture


    Jen Stark

    * nice and colorful paper cut sculputures


  3. What is reCAPTCHA?


    reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below).

    A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

    What is reCAPTCHA?

    via Kris Kenyon


  4. Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson

    Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson

    Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson

    (via Preik - The design aggregator.)


  5. it : éditions

    it : éditions

    it : éditions

    It: aborde à part égale Image et Texte, sans que l’un ne soit jamais envisagé
    comme l’illustration ni le commentaire de l’autre. It: cherche au travers de ses
    publications à mettre en évidence la spécificité d’une pensée visuelle. Les différents
    objets éditoriaux proposés appréhendent l’image comme un matériau ouvert.
    C’est-à-dire que sa présentation, son agencement dans l’espace du livre nécessite
    d’engager un réel processus de réflexion et de création, sous-tendu par un ensemble
    de parti pris éditoriaux spécifiques. L’image, telle qu’elle est appréhendée dans
    ces publications, est un vecteur de connaissance, une manière spécifique de traiter
    différents sujets …

    (via manystuff.org.)


  6. ☼ Nice Events in London / Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?


    ☼ Nice Events in London / Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?

    Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?
    Location: Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
    Description: The adjective ‘systematic’ (from the Greek word ‘systematikos’) means, in one dictionary definition: ‘proceeding from a system, methodical, planned; corresponding to a system’. Systematic book design thus means: book design that follows a plan fixed before the work begins. A conscious, rational procedure sooner or later reaches an end: the unconscious – or that which is a matter of feeling – plays a large and often decisive role in design. Using examples from some of his own works, Jost Hochuli will try to show where the irrational has resolved rational decisons.

    After this talk Jost will be happy to answer questions both on book design and aspects of typographic detailing, the subject of his new book ’Detail in typography’. Copies of this book published by Hyphen Press will be available for on sale on the evening at a specially discounted rate.

    About the speaker

    Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and graphic designer. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education was completed in 1958–9 in Adrian Frutiger’s class at the Ecole Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St Gallen since 1967. As writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and a major monograph on his work: Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). An English-language edition of his Detail in typography was published earlier this year. He has edited and designed the annually published ‘Typotron’ series of booklets (1983–98) and the Edition ‘Ostschweiz’ (from 2000).

    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2008-11-27

     


  7. ☼ Nice Events in London / Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007


    Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007
    Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
    Description: The Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture would like to invite you to the opening on the 19 November 2008 at 7pm. Hans Muster, director of Helvetic Centre will have a few words and guests from Switzerland will introduce the competition and the catalogue.
    Please reserve Saturday afternoon 29 November for there will be a workshop held in the exhibition with guests from London and Switzerland. For further information go to www.helveticcentre.ch
    Start Date: 2008-11-19
    Start Time: 19:00

    ☼ Nice Events in London / Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007


  8. Atlas of Cyberspace (Now Available as a Free Download)

    Atlas of Cyberspace: Now Available as a Free Download

    Martin Dodge and Rob Kithen’s seminal book ‘The Atlas of Cyberspace’, is now available as a free download. The book was arguably the first mass market publication exploring the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure.

    It uses a user-friendly, approachable style to examine why cyberspace is being mapped and what new cartographic and visualisation techniques have been employed.

    Richly illustrated with over 300 full colour images, it comprehensively catalogues 30 years worth of maps that reveal the rich and varied landscapes of cyberspace.

    The book includes chapters detailing:

    - mapping Internet infrastructure and traffic flows
    - mapping the Web
    - mapping online conversation and community
    - imagining cyberspace in art, literature, and film

    Martin is a CASA Alumni and as such the book captures a moment of CASA’s research back in the mid 90’s. Look out for the ‘30 Days in ActiveWorlds Map’ (thats ours… :) )

    Download the Atlas of Cyberspace
    .

    (via Digital Urban.)


  9. practical typography - p95

    practical typography - p95

    (…) Actually, typefaces and racing bikes are very much alike. Both are ideas as well as machines, and neither should be burdened with excess drag or baggage. Pictures of pumping feet will not make the type go faster, any more than smoke trails, pictures of rocket ships or imitation lightning bolts tied to the frame will improve the speedof the bike

    (via Dogeared Books.)


  10. The mystery of the Swedish bookshop

    Other countries have different defining genres. For Spain, it is swashbuckling action romps (from Don Quixote to Arturo Pérez Reverte’s Captain Alatriste). For Italy, it is intellectual games-playing disguised as fiction (Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco), for France it is essays in deep cultural pessimism laced with a huge amount of bonking (The Sexual Life of Catherine M, anything by Michel Houellebecq).

    The more one goes on, the more marked the tendency appears. Egyptians like busy, criss-crossed, urban narratives (Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa Al Aswany), Hungarians like aristocratic nostalgia (Sandor Marai, Miklos Banffy) and Latin Americans, of course, enjoy novels about dictators in which fantasy provides an escape from oppression (all of them up to and including Junot Díaz).


    The mystery of the Swedish bookshop | Michael Gove - Times Online

    (via Fade Theory)


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