Quick bites about whatever interests me, amuses me, or not.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
35 Vintage Library Posters from the New Deal Era
Between 1936 and 1943 thousands of boldly coloured and graphically diverse posters were produced by the Work Projects Administration, established as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.
(Source: aerogrammestudio.com)
Massive River of 10,000 Discarded Books Rages Through Melbourne
If you were in Melbourne this past June, you may have run into a gargantuan installation right on the city streets. For The Light in Winter festival, Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus was commissioned to create a work of art that, quite literally, stopped traffic. 10,000 discarded books, donated by public libraries and collected by the Salvation Army, were lit up and then arranged to look like a massive river overtaking the city. First created in New York, Literature vs Traffic was bigger and better this time, ultimately becoming their largest work to date.
Artist Creates Rainbow Book Of 3,632 Pages, To Illustrate RGB Color Scheme
17 Best Book Nooks for Grown-Ups
Beautiful Evidence: New Illustrations Cut from Encyclopedias and Primary Readers by Thomas Allen
Venture Inside of Quebec’s Garden of Decaying Books
Berlin landscape architect Thilo Folkerts and Canadian artist Rodney LaTourelle designed the Jardin de la Connaissance back in 2010 as an installation for the International Festival des Jardins de Metis in Quebec. As time passed, the some 40,000 books and wood plates making up the walls of their garden have decayed and dissolved, while new life has also found its way in to the space.
90º, by Polish designer Iwona Przybyla, is a pop-up book with letters made of thread that appear when the book is opened to ninety degrees. (via Booooooom)
I just loved this. We must care for the things we cherish. :)
