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Book Binding DIY: Four Hole Binding

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“handling each of the individual cards – the cover of Eric Gill’s Typography (1931), or of an issue of David Carson’s Beach Culture (1990), for example – reminds you that when print works well, it can work like nothing else” (via Creative Review - Review: The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design).

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Harry Potter in the books vs. Harry Potter in the movies, from artist Robin Tatlow-Lord (h/t HuffPost Books)

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“This publication accompanies the exhibition ‘Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,’ organized by Alma Ruiz and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 12 December 2010-27 February 2011” (via Supra sensorial : Experimentos en Luz Color, y Espacio = Experiments in Light, Color, and Space (Book, 2011) [WorldCat.org]).

The principle cataloguer in our department stopped by my desk to show me this today. The book has a red gel overlay for reading the green text (which is in Spanish) and green gel overlay for reading red text (which is in English). The green and red text are printed on top of each other, so you need the overlays to read it. 

“Although William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in literature, his writing is still considered particularly dense. One of his most difficult works is “The Sound and the Fury,” which is told from multiple points of view. It begins in the voice of Benjy, a mentally disabled man whose perception is jumbled, immediate and distinctly hard to parse. One of the reasons Benji’s narrative is hard to follow is because it jumps around in time with little indication of the change, other than italics. But when Faulkner was working on the book in the 1920s — “The Sound and the Fury” was published in 1929 — he imagined a way to make the section clearer to readers. “I wish publishing was advanced enough to use colored ink,” Faulkner wrote to his editor, “as I argued with you and Hal in the Speakeasy that day.” “I’ll just have to save the idea until publishing grows up,” he added, inadvertently launching a challenge to future publishers. Nine decades later, the Folio Society took it up. In a special edition, the Folio Society is publishing “The Sound and the Fury” in 14 colors. It’s a fine press edition, quarter-bound in leather, with a slipcase and an additional volume of commentary. It also includes a color-coded bookmark that reveals which time period is designated by each color” (via ‘The Sound and the Fury’ as William Faulkner imagined, in color - latimes.com).

“French illustrator and artist Laëtitia Devernay has been named as the winner of this year’s V&A Illustration Awards for her book, The Conductor” (via Creative Review - Laëtitia Devernay wins V&A Illustration Awards).

“Fifty years ago, in a Seattle Times article entitled Talking Books Will Entertain, Inform ‘Readers’ in Century 21, writers, teachers and booksellers gathered to examine the future of the book. Many of their predictions from this report in the five-part World’s Fair souvenir edition on Space Age Frontiers are quite visionary—while others, such as having a fully-automated future with an abundance of idle time—are just outright laughable. Read on…” (via Letterology: A 1962 Vision of the 21st Century Book Trade)