September 4, 2009
To be fond of ; to like ; to have good will toward ; to delight in, with preëminent affection.
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Love.
Chronicle Books had only a dummy of the trade edition at BEA, but the book is out now. (Buy it through Indiebound.)
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August 25, 2009
My Kind of Town
Last week I went to Chicago for two days, to see what there was to see. I had lunch with Maia Wright, a now-even-more-cherished visitor to this blog, and spent an afternoon tooling around with Sheila Ryan, whom I also originally met in the comments here and who led me over to my blog-away-from-home, Clusterflock. In between these two planned and much anticipated treats, a friend hooked me up with an impromptu personal tour of the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, led by Clifton Meador, who—in addition to making his own gorgeous books—directs the MFA program there.
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July 13, 2009
from the Guardian
They’ve been doing a lot of nifty slide shows at the Guardian. Here are four recent ones:
- British Library launches online newspaper archive
As you may have guessed, I love this kind of stuff. Unfortunately, the archive website’s not working—at least, for me. I click on links and get nothing but error messages. I’ve written to Gale’s tech support, but I’d be interested to know if the site’s working for other people, especially those in the UK.
- Article: “British Library publishes online archive of 19th-century newspapers,” by Maev Kennedy, June 18, 2009
- The archive itself: British Newspapers, 1800–1900, at Gale Cengage Learning
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July 10, 2009
Vanessa Davis, computer whiz and more!
The charming and talented Vanessa Davis has a new comic about past jobs, good and bad, over at Tablet, which is Nextbook’s reconceived, redesigned, and mostly restaffed* online magazine: Vocation, All I Ever wanted!
Vanessa’s also, after a long period of dormancy, reorganized and relaunched her own website, Spaniel Rage. With a blog and everything! Yay!
* Yes, yes, I’m going to clean out my office today, finally, I promise.
(Cross-posted at Clusterflock.)
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Update, 7/16: There’s a great interview with Vanessa over at Largehearted Boy: Antiheroines: Vanessa Davis
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January 9, 2009
We love Vanessa Davis so much
at my workplace that we asked her to do a monthly column. The first installment was posted today:
Vanessa also did a holiday comic for us that I was too frazzled to blog when it went up: Crispy Christmas.
November 29, 2008
Weapons of mass respiration
Edith Kollath’s show is at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, until December 14. Read at NYC Resistor about the zany TSA adventure she had when she tried to take these books to Germany for a show.
Via Bre Pettis, who made the above video.
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October 26, 2008
Do circuit diagrams count?
Yes, folks, once again it’s that magical time of year: only six days until DrawMo! 2008!
Who: People of the Internets
What: Try to make at least one drawing a day for a month
Where: Offline, online, on blogs, on Flickr, wherever
When: November 1–30
Why: Because it’s fun
To join the DrawMo! group blog, send me an e-mail or leave a comment here or there. You can also join the Flickr group.
I have no idea how I’m going to make time for it this year, since I’m already, like, totally overscheduled, but I’ll certainly try.
September 22, 2008
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.
September 5, 2008
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!”
May 13, 2008
Fore-edge books
Had you heard of fore-edge paintings? I hadn’t. From Karen at hangingtogether.org:
During Merrilee’s and my visit to the Boston Public Library last Friday, Tom Blake and Maura Marx introduced us to the results of the BPL’s digitization of its fore-edge books—books with paintings on their edges that can be viewed only by looking at the sides of the book. Some are “double fore-edge” books – one painting is visible when the leaves are fanned one way, and another painting appears when fanned another way.
The BPL has posted a CC-licensed Flickr set of fore-edge paintings with detailed captions. Love!
Thanks, Dylan!
Photo: [View of London Bridge.] posted by the Boston Public Library; some rights reserved.
