09.22.08
Bookuleles
I love to make books and I love to play the ukulele. Can I put these two loves together? Can I make a book out of a uke?
Holy moly.
From The Ukulele Books of Peter and Donna Thomas, via Ukulele Hero, via Dylan.
09.06.08
Ed Rondthaler
House Industries is making a film about Ed Rondthaler, founder of Photo-Lettering, Inc., and they’ve posted a short video of him giving a presentation about the nuttiness of English spelling. I saw Mr. Rondthaler do this schtick at TypeCon a few years ago, and somewhere around here I have an entertaining tract that he wrote. He’s a centenarian and so has an awful lot to say; I look forward to the extended version.
(Via Boing Boing.)
09.05.08
Maira Kalman’s Tel Aviv
This here, my friends, is art direction at its finest: I ask an artist I’m all fawny over if she wants to draw something for us, she very kindly says yes, and then I don’t lift another finger (well, except to digitize five gouache paintings, which was a nontrivial task given their size, my mediocre scanner, and the fact that the text was written on separate tracing paper overlays). If only I could get paid for doing this.
Oh, wait . . .
Go see “My Tel Aviv” by Maira Kalman. As one of our senior editors just opined, it “KICKS ASS!”
