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Books + (Art OR Design)

The Future of Books

Here’s an interesting student project by Kyle Bean (illustrator, designer and maker of ‘things’)
The Future of Books
[link | via notcot]

Asterick Bookends

By Blank Project
Asterick Bookends
[link | via swissmiss]

Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones
[via the Design Files | see also]

One Million Digitized Books

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

smell like the library

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

Library perfume

[found via BB-blog]

2nd Annual Bad Designs on Campus Contest

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 }

web forms & pizza beef pellets

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…

The Great Pizza Orientation Test

Nerd Gear (Computer Science edition)

Matryoshkus set of six traditional Russian dolls (via notcot)
Russian Dolls

Binary Watch
Binary Watch

Binary Ring (via notcot)
Binary ring

HTML HEAD Sterling Silver Earings
Head Earings

art AND (books OR library)

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
Nina Katchadourian

Cara Barer
cara barer

Brian Dettmer’s carved book series
History of Western Europe

chotda’s bookshelf organized by color
colorshelves.jpg

Mickey Smith’s series of journal spine photographs
Today + Tomorrow

Abelardo Morell’s photographic book series
Morell’s Two Tall Books

Jonathan Callan
politics

Thomas Allen
Allen’s Duel

My attempt at library related art: “Library Details” flickr set
Rolled Print

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

Nerd Gear

Librarian Necklace by brookadelphia
LibrarianNecklace

Kern sweatshirt (typography joke) from Veer
Kern Sweatshirt from Veer

Pixelated jewels by mike and maaike
Stolen Jewels by mike and maaike

nice_tags T-shirt from the consumating.com folks
nice_tags Tshirt

Book Hacks

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.