Posts tagged Books
Chris Cobb - There is Nothing Wrong in this Whole World (2004), an installation of 20,000 books arranged to create a continuous spectrum
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I have this book, and it is as beautiful as it looks in these photographs. And the blue linen cover is so soft and lovely to hold.
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The Backlist Classics collection are a hardback series that use a unifying grid system. Both ‘The Coran’ and ‘The Iliad’ feature Richard Sarson’s hand-drawn black and white geometrical illustrations. ‘The Coran’s’ illustration picks up the book’s metaphysical and religious nature, while the circles on ‘The Iliad’ hint at the intricate, circular nature of the story. An illustration of the Penrose triangle was used for the utopian nature of ‘Utopia’. The aim was to produce elegant, attractive books that evoke the rich heritage of classic literature, while retaining a fresh appeal to modern readers, that both stand out in bookshops and have a longevity appropriate to their contents.
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It has been said that parents do not surround their kids with books like they used to. Instead, they just buy them a computer and a Xbox and call it a day. That if you physically put endless tomes of literature in front of a curious mind, usually they’ll find their way to reading them.
Might be.
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How Good Books Can Change You
Summer’s here and time for summer reading at the beach, in a hammock or on the porch. Books are great for passing the time on lazy summer afternoons. And according to Ohio State researchers, the books you read from childhood on can also change who you are.
They do this by a process the researchers called experience taking. More than just understanding a character, it’s taking a little of them inside of you and changing yourself in the process. It’s not something that you plan on, it happens spontaneously. Good writing helps, but there’s much more involved.
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Summer’s here and time for summer reading at the beach, in a hammock or on the porch. Books are great for passing the time on lazy summer afternoons. And according to Ohio State researchers, the books you read from childhood on can also change who you are.
They do this by a process the researchers called experience taking. More than just understanding a character, it’s taking a little of them inside of you and changing yourself in the process. It’s not something that you plan on, it happens spontaneously. Good writing helps, but there’s much more involved.
Read more. [Image: Alexandre Dulaunoy/Flickr] (via theatlantic)
Visual comparison of the six editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was undoubtedly a seminal work that continues to inform modern science.
The completion of the final, however, was a long drawn-out process that Darwin continued to revise over the course of 15 years, resulting in a total of six editions. The changes Darwin made to the text included:
- A response to religious objections;
- Various revised and re-written sentences;
- The addition of a new chapter to address opposing arguments.
To illustrate each edition of the book, a visual comparison has been generated (above) that uses phylogenetic trees to differentiate between and highlight all changes made in each subsequent edition:
Using data from online versions of the books, the designers created six wheels, each representing a different edition, with each chapter divided into sub-chapters, paragraphs (represented by a leaf shape), and sentences (represented by a smaller ‘leaflet’). The sentences are colored blue or orange based on whether or not they will appear in the next edition—on whether or not they will survive. Changes representing scientific advances, adjustments in the author’s thought process, and conflicting sections in the text become apparent, with subtleties as well as major changes immediately revealed.This figure is included in the book Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects.
The editors, designers, and creative directors at Random House offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to publish a book.
DJL is CONSUMED with lust for the King Penguin Books series. Oh the wanting, the wanting, the WANTING! DJL must have them, must have them all (for this is only a tiny sample of their wonder). It’s only a matter of time until DJL cracks and goes nuts on Ebay. Only. A matter. Of time.
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