Comments(0) Here’s an interesting student project by Kyle Bean (illustrator, designer and maker of ‘things’)
[link | via notcot]
By Blank Project
[link | via swissmiss]
[via the Design Files | see also]
Comments(0) On Friday we (University of Michigan Library) celebrated a major milestone in our digitization project. Together with Google, we’ve just hit 1 Million Digitized Books!
Read what our University Librarian Paul Courant has to say about it.
I helped put together a few visual projects to describe what “1 million” means and to highlight some of the people behind it all. I also took some photos of some of the materials and tools that these people use to make the million happen.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/millionth.html
Comments(0) Who needs prehistoric attractions like pheromones when you can smell like an old book?
A new perfume called “In The Library” is described as:
English Novel taken from a Signed First Edition of one of my very favorite novels, Russian & Moroccan leather bindings, worn cloth and a hint of wood polish
[found via BB-blog]
Comments(2) The University of Michigan’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Society recently announced the winners of their Bad Designs on Campus Contest.
Since these folks are from the engineering department it’s no surprise that many of the submissions were for bad design on North Campus - specifically the Duderstadt Center and Pierpont Commons. I worked in the Duderstadt Center for 4 years so I can personally attest to how frustrating some of the entries really are. I don’t think I ever went to the library stacks area without having to help someone figure out how to move the compact shelving or made it to the bathroom without having the external doors open unnecessarily.
{ link to contest | found via Field Guide }
Comments(1) The Sneeze, about the only “for-fun” blog I still manage to read, has a funny post about using the Domino’s Pizza delivery web order form. I feel like there’s an interface design lesson her, but not sure what it is…
Comments(1) Comments(1) Though I no longer make “art” (yes, I was a weird art school chick) I still love art and now I love libraries. So, here is a collection of where the two intersect.
Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project
Brian Dettmer’s carved book series
chotda’s bookshelf organized by color
Mickey Smith’s series of journal spine photographs
Abelardo Morell’s photographic book series
My attempt at library related art: “Library Details” flickr set
See also:
cARTalog: University of Iowa Library’s project to purpose their retired card catalog into art and the The Rainbow of Books Flickr Group
Comments(0) Librarian Necklace by brookadelphia 
Kern sweatshirt (typography joke) from Veer 
Pixelated jewels by mike and maaike
nice_tags T-shirt from the consumating.com folks 
Comments(0) 13 Book Hacks from LifeHacker. I haven’t tried the 3 library integration tools they mention, but I have used the libX firefox extension (click the link “56 academic and public libraries” to see if there is one for your school) and think it’s pretty useful.
From my del.icio.us
