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Eat Me Drink Me
Michael Pollan Food Rules # 36 < that piece after the hashtag is a strawberry Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. So this might mean — don’t eat milk with your cereal (eat a little … Continue reading
Magical Bookcases
There is this cartoon by Mike Baldwin, the creator of Cornered, which shows what looks like a boss showing off a new bookcase and remarking: “I wanted a bookcase with a secret door that led somewhere magical, mystical and mysterious. … Continue reading
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To See by Not Seeing
Austen’s punctuation illustrated: http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/feb/23/say-what-books-with-the-words-removed-punctuation-maps-in-pictures Scroll to bottom for Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice depiction Chicago web designer Nicholas Rougeux strips literary classics of their words and turns them into spiral-shaped in Between the Words. He explores the ‘visual rhythm of … Continue reading
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Cross-Pollination
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (PM Press, 2011) Cory Doctorow interviewed by Terry Bisson On staying on top of information flows… With a little help from my friends. As a culture, we have gone from a deterministic method of consumption … Continue reading
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Judith Kerr on Mog the Cat: images and words
From an episode of BBC’s Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07kjbsv At 22:55 into the interview Sue Lawley: The text and the pictures, your illustrations are very interwoven aren’t they? Sometimes one takes the narrative lead; sometimes the other. Kerr: I started … Continue reading
Judging A Book By Its Cover
I have been revisiting this Faber and Faber cover for months. Entranced by its design, it’s colours and the bold use of words. But it is only recently that I was able to encapsulate by fascination in one word: tricolon! … Continue reading
Being Well
The Well of Being, a children’s book for adults written and illustrated by Jean-Pierre Weill Near the middle of the book there is a turn. Throughout the book each page of words is faced on the next page by an … Continue reading
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Desirable Difficulty
Sans Forgetica This piece in The Guardian is short and amusing. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/04/font-of-all-knowledge-researchers-develop-typeface-they-say-can-boost-memory The article allows you to toggle to display in the Sans Forgetica font — it’s an experience you might not want to remember : ) [Typography lecturer Stephen] … Continue reading
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Colour Moods – From a Riot to Contemplation
Cicely Mary Barker A Flower Fairies Treasury The cover, a riot of colour, appeals to the sense of smell (heady purple heliotrope) and taste (peppery orange nasturtium) Inside, the frontispiece is a restful black and white drawing of the daffodil … Continue reading
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After Alexandria Redux
Grayson James More keepsakes from the show at the Ryerson Image Centre: After Alexandria One muses that this show about books and the traces people leave in them could reference the Alexandria of history’s great library. Or something else. Recto … Continue reading