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a good book

…i love books. Yet I’ve never bought one just to own it. What fascinates me is their utility value: books can teach us things. It’s not only the writer that speaks to us. If we listen more closely, we can hear the voice of the designer or eavesdrop on the concert of materials. Books appeal not only to our eyes and ears: some we fall in love with the moment we take them in our hands. Many books also communicate non-verbally – they can flirt and seduce…

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a beautiful german archive site that documents books (via my top tipper this year mister ‘uwe’ thanks for all the great links mate)

m / 31-12-2013 11:39 - tags: art, books, inspiration, online

on the genealogy of mortals

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a sinister new e-book from ‘mapp publishers’ portraying several notorious serial killers

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m / 19-12-2013 10:32 - tags: books, inspiration, photography

do it yourself

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the annual vpro magazine first cover competition (the theme was ‘do it yourself’) have posted all of the entries online (including mine, shown above) the empty space is deliberate: for the magazine’s masthead by the way

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someone who had a similar approach to me was maartje verzellenberg (above left) i also liked the one from lotte brans (above right) although the absolute winner in my opinion has to be the entry below from wiebe schipper, who simply took the image the magazine made to publicise the call for entries and stuck a post-it note on it, with simple lithography instructions… literally inviting them to do it themselves…

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