Archive for the 'book' Category
Barbara DeWilde
June 8th, 2011
Peter Mendelsund and the Art of Metamorphosis
January 28th, 2011
Dog Show
October 20th, 2010
Amazing collection from John Gall of book covers from books about dogs. Some great vernacular inspiration, and more than one fantastic band name (dibs on This and That About Chihuahuas.)
The Book Cover Archive : Isaac Tobin
June 14th, 2010
The Helicopters are Coming
January 20th, 2010
The Helicopters are Coming.
The Book Cover Archive
July 16th, 2009
My new favorite website, forever.
World Geographic Atlas
July 14th, 2009
All the spreads from Herbert Bayer's World Geographic Atlas on Flickr.
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
June 5th, 2009
A collection of books of historical illustration and decoration. via agfa8x, more or less.
FontBook
June 4th, 2009
"FontBook is a type encyclopedia with an abundance of carefully researched notes on type designers, year of publication, similar fonts, and additional language versions."
Books: a collection of cover art
January 16th, 2009
Nice collection of book covers. Especially like Everymans Guide to Polystyrene Plastics and The Motor Car(s).
Census Atlas of the United States
May 10th, 2008
"...is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented."
A series of flight postcards
March 23rd, 2008
It's a book of postcards the Leah made and she asked me to contribute and I totally did!
We Tell Stories
March 20th, 2008
Interesting, sort of clumsy, but I guess it was inevitable for someone to try something like this. It's great that Google Maps is set up in such a way that implementing this at least looks like it would be easy.
Manual of the diseases of the eye
March 12th, 2008
Ok, a) eye diseases, with color plates, cool. But maybe more importantly, b) this is the first Google book I've found where there are scans of fingers holding the pages down. And frequently. Very charming.
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher
May 12th, 2007
"Ike Matthews is also willing to go out rabbit-shooting with gentlemen during the season, and will supply and work ferrets at reasonable charges. He is also prepared to break dogs and puppies to ferreting and Ratting on reasonable terms." via bb.