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Trails has got to be one of the most genius things I have seen on the internet for a long time.

“We developed a Firefox ad-on that enables the Internet user to edit and print his own “web book”. The key point of the project is the transformation of website fragments (text and images) into a printable booklet. With a click of a button, the web fragments become editable, and the booklet can be extended with personal content, notes etc.
The structure of the book layout offers enough basic flexibility to let everyone pursue his own design.
We are interested in visualizing the fragmented “Internet Reading”, and curious as to how Internet users will develop their own design language with the help of this new tool. Our aim is that this browser extension will serve as an essential Internet research assistant for the casual and common user.”

(via Manystuff)

Really great series of works from Our Polite Society.

“A magazine for and about the NDSM Wharf in the north of Amsterdam, an old ship construction factory which now provides studio space for artists and designers. The magazine was released in 4 issues, each of them setting out with another aspect of the theme non-profit and approaching editorial work and design in a different way.”

(via Manystuff)

This is coincidental, but this is our 100th post, which happens to be about the 100 Book Project by Mads Freund Brunse. This is quite possibly the best thing i have ever seen, or at least the best thing i have ever posted about.

“Library signage. An installation with an index of titles and extracts organised under different emotions. This allows you to discover new books that evoke similar feelings.”

(via VVORK)

Love these book covers by Heman Chong.

(via VVORK)

Really nice work from Thomas Bizzarri.

(via Many Stuff)

I’m a massive fan of Will Holder, especially his F. R. David publication (which I recently went to the launch of the latest one in Amsterdam).

“Holder’s work reflects on the relationship between language and design, positioning language as a kind of conceptual structure at its heart. As a designer writer and editor, Holder’s practice encompasses print and publication design, events and also performances. He, for example, organised the TOURETTE’S evenings at Amsterdam’s W139 artspace and at the De Appel Foundation. He has written for the periodical dot-dot-dot and publishes the magazine Catalogue. He is the designer and editor of the periodical F. R. David published by De Appel.

For On Purpose Holder is presenting the latest in a series of projects that relate to his own personal library of books from his home/studio. For the full duration of the exhibition he will be participating in a residency in France, meaning he will be living away from his London home temporarily. Holder has proposed to re-site his library of publications to the Arnolfini, and to put his books to use by setting up a functioning lending library. His publications archive will be available for reference and borrowing to all visitors, offering new potential for this source material.”

(taken from On Purpose)

Really interested in this project he is working on called Common Knowledge.

“Will Holder is presenting a project using his own personal library of books from his home/studio.”

Check out his library here.
I have noticed that my friend Phil Baber has a book in his library.

(via Many Stuff).

I am currently working on a letterpress project involving Futura. The other night a few people from the project went to St. Bride library to look through old books. I found some beautiful images and some great quotes too.

“The print shop is not a costume shop. It is not our task to clothe each literary content in a period costume; we must see to it that it receives a garment that suits the style of our time. We want a living typography, not a typographic theater or Masquerade.”
- Paul Renner in Print; the magazine of Graphic Arts. Volume VIII, number 4.

“The less interesting the letter is, the more suitable it is for the typographer.”
- Piet Zwart, from the book: Bauhaus – Types/The Futura of Paul Renner.

“We ask of a type distinctness, clarity and the omitting of all superfluous elements. Thus we reach the demand of a geometrical form structure.”
- Paul Renner, from the book: Bauhaus – Types/The Futura of Paul Renner.

Then just before we were leaving i opened a book, and it landed on this page. Some designs for the London College of Communication building in the Elephant & Castle [the university i am studying in!].

Signed up to Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook today.

“In October 2008, we are launching a world-wide, interactive reading group for Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.

We will be presenting the book, in its entirety, online, and inviting the web to read it. A group of selected readers will annotate the text as they go, and everybody will be invited to join the discussion in our forums.”

(sort of via Manystuff)

I have decided to clean up my mac memory and share some images with you that have caught my attention at some point when surfing the internet or looking for something specific. It’s a small collection of images that I like and it consists of all kinds of graphic design including typography, advertisement, interior details, illustration, posters, street art, album covers, book designs, typefaces etc. Enjoy.

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Again, whilst in Amsterdam we (me & Varvara) were lucky enough to go to the book launch of F. R. David, where we got a reading from the book by Will Holder as well as watching two really great films; one by John Smith – Associations (a few bad quality and short films by John Smith here) and the second by Werner Herzog – The Enigma of Kasper Hauser. Both were very inspiring films to watch.

(Second image via Gerrit Rietveld Academie blog)

We met a lot of people my friend Phil Baber is at university with in the Gerrit Reitveld Academie; Nick, Michael, Stefan, and quite a few others (sorry cant remember all the names), was really nice to meet you all.