Woman's World: a graphic novel

"Graham Rawle has painstakingly collected words and phrases from 1960s women’s magazines in order to tell Norma’s subversive story. Once removed from their context, the words have been reassembled to make the unique novel that is Woman’s World ­ rich with the flavour and moral tone of the ‘donor’ material and as poignant as it is joyful."
-go here

Anyone need a bookbinder?

you can contact Wyman Chu at:
wyman.chu@sympatico.ca

or phone her at Cover N Pages:
416 219 9338

The hardest part...

"The hardest part is never a lack of ideas, but how to merge a mass of them into a cohesive whole. This requires unleashing a system of parameters and investigating their logical consequences. That is to say, once certain design decisions are set, their interaction leads directly to the rest of the design development. It's as if the book designs itself."
-Martin Venezky

Sculpted in Paper

see Jen Stark's work here

Where Is It All Going?

A Slight Shift designed by RGB
see the rest of the clocks here

Peter Mendelsund

"This is an updated, revised and greatly expanded edition of an interview that Peter Mendelsund graciously undertook for Books Covered. As a senior designer at Knopf and the art director for Vertical Press, an independent Japanese-American publisher, Peter has risen to become part of the all-star lineup of designers at Random House, including John Gall, Carol Devine Carson, and Chip Kidd." Read the interview here

Seen Reading

1. I see you reading.
2. I guesstimate where you are in the book.
3. I trip on over to the bookstore and make a note of the text.
4. I let my imagination rip.
5. Readers become celebrities.
6. People get giddy and buy more books.

visit Seen Reading here

-image by Nadia over at Squiddity

A blog on its way to becoming a proper book

I have been visiting Strange Maps blog for a while now, and i'm glad to know that now the author is now putting together a book based on the blog.
As Reg keeps saying in the class it goes to show the potential a blog has both in terms of casual look and feel and also lack of legal issues –in this case copyright– .
Remember the only motive for her in making this blog into a book is the feedback she got from the visitors, that can be very helpful for all of us putting together a book in a very very short time.

Field Trip to Art Metropole

"ABC.....with love (too cool for school)"

-new exhibit at Art Metropole

-how to get there