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Linotype: The Film

2012-02-11T11:07:00.000Z

"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

Books landscapes sculptures

2012-01-07T17:42:00.001Z

Guy Laramée, Canada.

Cecilia Levy, Sweden

2011-10-14T17:04:00.001+01:00

Literary flowers by Cecilia Levy.

Alfabeto clip

2011-10-09T21:12:00.003+01:00

Via FFFFOUND!
More creative alphabets at Reuben Miller.

"Wonderfull tedious process!!"

2011-08-09T10:32:00.000+01:00

Via TeoStudio Vintage Journals.

Capas de livros japoneses dos inícios do século XX / Japanese book covers from the beginning of the 20th century

2011-06-01T21:55:00.002+01:00

From here via Camilla Engman

Molly Bosley: Remember Sebastian

2010-11-16T09:55:00.000Z

The sound of age.

A wartime loss, 2009

Pails and bonnets, 2009.
Molly Bosley via Scissors + Paper Rock

Back to basics

2010-11-06T08:36:00.000Z

Wings: Making the Field Notes 2010 Fall Edition from Coudal Partners on Vimeo.
Via Poppytalk.

Colaborative publishing with a twist

2010-10-17T06:56:00.000+01:00

The Exquisite Book from ALSO on Vimeo.
Via PoppyTalk.

More on book art / Mais arte com livros

2010-08-26T18:18:00.000+01:00

Mia Cabana e Oliver Scott, mais informações aqui / more information here.

Alfabeto bordado / Embroidered alphabet

2010-06-15T21:12:00.001+01:00

Steve MacDonald/Ramblin Worker, via My love for you is a stampede of horses.

A roda dos livros / Book wheel

2010-06-14T09:11:00.000+01:00

via FFFFound!

Falcons and horses

2010-04-25T21:39:00.004+01:00

Anu Tuominen, Finland.

Book artist again

2010-04-24T07:30:00.004+01:00

Lorna Crabbe, UK.

Book artist

2010-04-22T22:58:00.001+01:00

Lucy May Schofield, Manchester.

A cama de Florence Nightingale / Florence Nightingale's bed

2010-04-21T21:55:00.003+01:00

A instalação que a artista Susan Stockwell concebeu para as comemorações do aniversário de Florence Nightingale a terem lugar no mês que vem no museu que lhe é dedicado em Londres.
Susan Stockwell usou uma velha cama victoriana de latão e simulou um colchão com as páginas das edições de muitos dos livros escritos pela homenageada aquando da sua longa convalescença depois do regresso da guerra da Crimeia. Florence Nightingale foi autora de mais de 200 livros, panfletos e artigos sobre enfermagem e organização hospitalar, geralmente reconhecidos como tendo servido de pilar ao desenvolvimento da enfermagem moderna.

The installation that artist Susan Stockwell has created for the celebrations of Florence Nightingale's birthday, that will take place in the museum dedicated to her in London. Susan Stockwell used an old victorian brass bed and made up a mattress from the many pages taken from the many books written by Nightingale during the long period she spent recovering in bed after her return from the war in Crimea. Florence Nightingale wrote over 200 books, pamphlets and articles on nursing and hospital management that are usually considered as the foundation of modern nursing care.

Beeswax books

2010-03-11T17:21:00.002Z

Mariana Tocornal, Tocornal Design, Chile (via Design Sponge).

Why not?!

2010-03-10T19:57:00.004Z

Sadie, a filha de 7 anos e meio de Amy Karol, dedica-se desde há algum tempo a fazer cópias dos seus livros, alterando um ou outro pormenor, como o género de algumas personagens ou transformando animais em humanos e vice-versa.

Sadie, Amy Karol's 7 and a half years old daughter, has been copying some of her books for a while, changing a few details here and there: character's gender or turning animals into humans and vice-versa.

Livros para o Carnaval / Books for Carnival

2010-02-15T09:12:00.002Z

Jordi Ferreiro, via Mieke Willems.

Booklovers never go to bed alone...

2010-02-13T22:11:00.004Z

Para quem gosta de estantes de livros. / For those who like bookshelves.

Via Bookshelves.

Construir com livros / Building with books

2010-02-12T22:43:00.003Z

Book-Cell, Lisboa, 2006

Idiom, instalação em S. Paulo, 1995

Matej Krén, 1958, Eslováquia (via Leaves of Grass).

Lúcia David

2010-02-10T21:27:00.004Z

Qui Pro Quo III (2009)

Qui Pro Quo II

Revolve, surround and disclose (2006)

Lúcia David, Portugal.

Typography round up

2010-02-08T21:48:00.003Z

On Share Some Candy:

Outra vez o futuro / The future one more time

2009-12-27T21:54:00.003Z

via Blogtailors.

Bookbinders of the world...

2009-12-14T10:18:00.003Z

unite and take over!

Erinzam via Fffound.

Vegas Boneyard

2009-12-13T20:42:00.005Z

Vegas Boneyard, parte do Neon Museum, Las Vegas. Via Sandra Juto, via TrendLand, via Pam Sattler.

Onde os livros ganham vida / Where books come to life

2009-12-11T16:37:00.002Z

New Zealand Book Council, via Perdi o fio à meada.

Airside - Time out

2009-11-26T20:17:00.004Z

Airside, via Fffound.

Il mondo del libro

2009-11-10T21:01:00.004Z

Francesco Franchi, Milano, Graphic designer

O pão nosso de cada dia / Our daily bread

2009-10-30T08:58:00.005Z

Erika Kuhn, México.

Book group / Grupo de leitura

2009-10-22T09:06:00.003+01:00

O que será lançado on line a partir de segunda-feira sob a égide da Publishing Perspectives em torno da obra de Marcel Proust, À Procura do Tempo Perdido. Chama-se The Cork Lined Room e apresenta dez boas razões para ler a obra colossal do autor francês. Uma delas: "Durante os próximos meses não precisarão de se preocupar com o que vão ler a seguir".

Launched next monday by Publishing Perspectives around the work of Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. It's called The Cork Lined Room and presents ten good reasons to read the enormous work by the French author, one being: "For the next few months, you don't have to worry about what you'll be reading next".

Typopile Film Festival 5

2009-09-13T09:48:00.002+01:00

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

Via Swiss Legacy. (Link to Typophile)

Haste and Waste

2009-09-10T21:30:00.004+01:00

Heather Tompkins, San Francisco, USA

Altered books - Touchstones

2009-09-08T23:45:00.003+01:00

Pamela Paulsrud, USA.

Congreso Internacional del Mundo del Libro

2009-09-07T14:33:00.002+01:00

Começa hoje às 18:30 (hora local) no México com uma série de conferências a que se podem assistir em tempo real bem como consultar posteriormente. Primeiro conferencista: Robert Darnton, sobre Las Bibliotecas y el Futuro Digital. Iniciativa promovida pelo Fondo de Cultura Economica.
It starts today at 18:30 (local time) in Mexico a series of conferences that can be watched in real time as well as later. First act: Robert Darnton on Libraries and the Digital Future. Promoted by Fondo de Cultura Economica.
Via Booktailors

Linear-Actions Cutting

2009-09-02T21:06:00.004+01:00

Noriko Ambe, Tokyo, Japan.

Book Mobile - I wanted to be an actress

2009-09-01T22:52:00.004+01:00

Lisa Occhipinti, USA

Prints

2009-08-30T11:38:00.003+01:00

Vicent Hary, Paris, France

Via Share Some Candy

Muita Letra / Berlim Museum of Letters

2009-08-29T23:53:00.003+01:00

Berlim Buchstaben Museum um museu de tipos em processo de criar a sua colecção.

Berlim Museum of Letters, a museum of types about to put together its collection.

Via Core 77

We love your books

2009-08-29T23:38:00.004+01:00

Janet Caldwell

Guylaine Couture

Emma Powell

Alex Alexandrou

We love your books é uma iniciativa de duas professoras de Design Gráfico das universidades de Northampton e De Monfort (Leicester) que reúne trabalhos em torno do livro como objecto único em exposições anuais temáticas desde 2005.

We love your books is a project undertaken by two Graphic Designer teachers at Northampton and De Monfort (Leicester) universities that gathers works around the notion of the book as a single object showcasing them in yearly exhibitions that ran since 2005.

Mais imagens aqui.

More pictures here.

Publishing as Performance

2009-06-16T21:34:00.004+01:00

Publishing as Performance é um evento em torno da edição e da distribuição de livros de artistas integrado no ‘The Publications Project 2009’ uma iniciativa do Dutch Art Institute que se configura como uma plataforma experimental anual de investigação e produção que pretende abordar os processos específicos inerentes à criação de livros de artistas, desde a conceptualização, passando pelo design e chegando à distribuição. Através de diferentes perspectivas e práticas os artistas e designers reflectem sobre a edição como meio versátil.

Book launch of ‘The Publications Project 2009’ by the Dutch Art Institute
The book launch event Publishing As Performance presents a new collection of 16 publications varying from magazines, essays, books, playing cards & artist editions to performance artifacts, all outcomes of the annual ‘The Publications Project’ by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) edited by artist/curator Delphine Bedel.
The two-fold book launch event expands on the idea of performativity and the circulation of printed matters whereby a series of one-to-one encounters with the artists of the publications is made on a boat touring the canals in the vicinity of Casco. The journey or “a choreography of events” will involve story telling, games, scripted moments that will unwind from the publications.Secondly, ‘Temporary Bookshops’, which is a traveling project by the Berlin-based distribution company Motto will be installed at Casco. Next to the DAI publications, various other publications by artists and designers worldwide will be available for viewing.
‘The Publications Project’ is an experimental annual research and production platform by DAI that aims to address the specific process of artist book production from concept and design to distribution. Since 2003, designers from the Werkplaats Typografie and artists from DAI (both master programmes of the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) are invited to team up in couples and develop one project, in close collaboration with an author. This year ‘publishing as performance’ emerged as the overriding topic, as a concern central to many of the printed matter produced. Through very diverse perspectives and practices the artists and designers reflect upon publishing as a versatile medium.

Via Manystuff.

Revoluções / Revolutions

2009-04-21T21:07:00.003+01:00

Como o e-book vai mudar a nossa maneira de ler e escrever
Steven Johnson prevê um futuro com mais livros, mais distracções... e o fim da leitura solitária
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions - and the end of reading alone

Alpha Bet Love

2009-04-17T21:51:00.003+01:00

Luca "Bean One" Barcellona, on Flickr, via Ffffound it.

Lettre de Voltaire + Baudelaire

2009-04-05T21:30:00.002+01:00

Aoyama Hina, Tokyo + Paris.

New Books of Knowledge

2009-04-05T18:41:00.002+01:00

Brian Dettmer.

Book carving

2009-03-16T21:08:00.002Z

Kylie Stillman, Australia.

Periodic Table of Typefaces

2009-03-13T21:30:00.003Z

Imagem em alta resolução aqui.
High resolution image here.

Béhance Network, via Swissmiss.

Ex-libris

2009-03-12T20:32:00.005Z

"Estas colagens são feitas a partir de capas de livros usados. Procuro encontrar os que trazem consigo a sua própria história - inscrições, anotações, sinais de uso ou remendos improvisados, vislumbres das vidas dos seus antigos proprietários. Mergulhados em cera de abelha derretida, os papéis tornam-se translúcidos e revelam-se promenores inesperados. Por vezes, o papel no verso das capas apresenta rasgões que sugerem paisagens e acrescento-lhes imagens já trabalhadas, pintando a Lua em várias fases ou manuscrevendo expressões latinas apropriadas resgatadas nalgum dicionário. Noutros, acrescento pequenos diamantes que sugerem estrelas ou focos de luz."

"These assemblages are made made from the covers of used books. I seek out those that bring their own history - inscriptions, notations, signs of wear and amateur mending - poignant glimpses into the previous owners' lives. When dipped into melted beeswax, the papers become
translucent, and unexpected details emerge. Sometimes the paper on the inside covers tear in a way that suggests landscape, and I add to these readymade images, painting the moon in various phases and hand-lettering appropriate words from a Latin dictionary. On some, I add tiny diamonds, to suggest stars or lights."
Janet Jones, San Francisco, USA - via Dear Ada.

3D Sketchbook

2009-03-11T21:20:00.003Z

Container Plus, UK (via Ffffound!)

Aquela cor... / That colour....

2009-03-08T20:23:00.003Z

Laurie Frankel, via Madame Hervé.

Ainda o futuro

2009-03-05T23:35:00.004Z

¿Cómo será el mundo del libro en el 2020? Seis expertos predicen el futuro
Na QuéLeer, desde o director da Feira de Frankfurt, a editores e livreiros.
Seis visões ponderadas e esclarecidas.

What will the world of books be like in 2020? Six experts predict the future
In QuéLeer, from the director of the Frankfurt Books Fair, to publishers and bookshop's managers.
Six balanced and enlightened visions.

Via Blogtailors.

Cuckoo about letters

2009-03-04T21:37:00.003Z

Letman, via Aesthetic Outburst.

Impressão digital / Digital printing

2009-03-04T13:52:00.006Z

Já podíamos fazer os nossos próprios livros: / We could make our own books:

Agora também já podemos fazer as nossos capas para os livros dos outros: / Now we can make somebody else's book covers as well:

Blurb * My Penguin * Lulu

Kelmscott Press

2009-03-03T13:42:00.004Z

"Kelmscott Press, aquela que é a mais famosa das tipografias privadas, foi criada por William Morris em Hammersmith [Reino Unido] em Janeiro de 1891. Desde essa altura até 1898, a tipografia produziu 53 títulos, num total de 18 000 exemplares. A Kelmscott foi o culminar da experiência Morris como artesão capaz de dominar uma grande diversidade de técnicas. Estava disposto a provar que os elevados padrões de qualidade do passado poderiam ser reproduzidos e até ultrapassados no presente. Os livros produzidos por Morris apresentavam um aspecto medieval e eram decalcados dos incunábulos do século XV. A fonte criada por si, por exemplo, foi inspirada por uma outra criada pelo impressor Nicolaus Jenson de Veneza. Famoso pela harmonia que procurava estabelecer entre tipografia e ilustração, a grande prioridade de Morris era a de encarar cada livro como um todo: tal implicava dedicar um cuidado extremo a todos os aspectos da produção, incluindo a escolha do tipo de papel, do tipo de letra utilizado, do espaçamento entre as letras e da disposição dos textos na página. Os livros da Kelmscott recuperaram os parâmetros ideiais de produção de livros e inspiraram padrões de produção mais elevados numa época em que a impressão se encontrava na sua fase menos interessante."

"Perhaps the most famous of the private presses, William Morris established the Kelmscott Press at Hammersmith in January 1891. Between then and 1898, the press produced 53 books (totalling some 18,000 copies). Kelmscott was the culmination of Morris's life as a craftsman in many diverse fields. He set out to prove that the high standards of the past could be repeated - even surpassed - in the present. The books Morris produced were therefore medieval in design, modelled on the incunabula of the fifteenth century. Morris's roman 'golden' type, for example, was inspired by that of the early printer Nicolaus Jenson of Venice. Noteworthy for their harmony of type and illustration, Morris' main priority was to have each book seen a a whole: this included taking painstaking care with all aspects of production, incuding the paper, the form of type, the spacing of the letters, and the position of the printed matter on the page. Kelmscott books re-awakened the ideals of book design and inspired better standards of production at a time when the printed page was generally at its poorest."

Graphic Design and Visual Culture in Europe 1890-1945 - Private Press Books in Special Collections (University of Glasgow)

Pay what you want

2009-03-02T21:09:00.007Z

A Faber and Faber vai lançar a obra de Ben Wilson - What price liberty? - em formato e-book e descarregável ao preço escolhido pelo consumidor, que poderá mesmo atingir o valor zero. O e-book será lançado seis semanas antes do lançamento do livro em papel e o lançamento da versão impressa contemplará a distribuição aleatória de exemplares por vários espaços públicos. O e-book poderá ser adquirido através do mini-site criado para efeito. A contagem decrescente já começou.

Faber and Faber will launch Ben Wilson's What price liberty? in e-book format to be downloaded at the price chosen by the consumer, considering even the possibility of getting it for free. The e-book will be released six weeks in advance of the printed book and copies of this will be widely distributed in public places. The e-book can be acquired through a mini-site created for this purpose. The countdown has started.

Via José Afonso Furtado e Bookseller.com.

Charing Cross Road

2009-03-02T17:32:00.007Z

No momento em que fecha em Londres uma das mais conhecidas livrarias dedicadas aos livros policiais, Murder One, o Guardian Unlimited mostra, numa peça multimédia, as transformações que têm afectado a famosa artéria londrina em tempos dominada por livrarias únicas no mundo: Charing Cross Road.

With the closing of Murder One, a bookshop specialized in crime stories, a new era approaches Charing Cross Road. On Guardian Unlimited a multimedia display shows the different bookshop landscape - before and now - along the famous London road.

Print, manuscript and the search for order 1450-1830

2009-02-24T20:35:00.003Z

Da autoria do Bibliotecário do Trinity College em Cambridge, David McKitterick, esta não é uma obra particularmente bem escrita mas muti elucidativa sobre alguns pormenores técnicos e culturais que caracterizaram a época que vai da invenção da imprensa até à sua consolidação como indústria de pleno direito.

By the Librarian of Cambridge's Trinity College, David McKitterick, this isn't a particularly well written book but one that elucidates some technical and cultural details of the time that goes from the invention of the printing press to the consolidation of the publishing business as an industry in its own right.

Shakespeare and Company (Paris)

2009-02-21T19:25:00.002Z

Via Mariana Newlands.

25th Estate - This is where we live

2009-01-16T22:10:00.001Z

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Breathing books - Livros que respiram

2008-12-21T19:13:00.000Z

Things - Edith Kollath Creates Books that Breathe from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.

Ebook readers

2008-12-20T20:36:00.002Z

Round-up, balanço comparativo!

Via Brave New Worls (Martyn Daniels).

Handmade books

2008-11-27T19:17:00.001Z

Via Dear Ada.

Mixed media

2008-11-17T20:31:00.004Z

expected to believe, Cathy Cullis, UK.

Fresh Fonts

2008-11-12T23:05:00.006Z

Heldentica

Tomatica

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, The Netherlands

Mike Stilkey - Book sculptures

2008-10-31T14:21:00.003Z

Mike Stilkey, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Alphabet soup

2008-10-06T22:53:00.004+01:00

Phill Hunt (via JPG Magazine).

O futuro é uma terra estranha / The future is a foreign country

2008-10-06T00:00:00.004+01:00

Timo Hannay, o director editorial da Nature.com, e a sua perspectiva sobre o futuro da edição, comparado aqui a um país estrangeiro que colocaria perante os recém-chegados uma série de exigências básicas, entre as quais:

Aprendam a(s) língua(s)

Respeitem as novas normas culturais

Suprimam qualquer noção de habilitação

Trabalhem arduamente

Escutem, aprendam e adaptem-se

Timo Hannay, publishing director of Nature.com, and his perspective on the future of publishing, compared to a foreign country in which the newcomers would have to follow a few basic rules, the most important being:

Learn the language(s)
Respect new cultural norms

Suppress any sense of entitlement
Work hard

Listen, learn, adapt

(via The Digitalist)

ABC-3D

2008-09-30T10:14:00.002+01:00

Um abecedário a três dimensões da autoria de Marion Bataille, uma designer francesa formada na Escola Superior de Artes Gráficas de Paris que trabalha como ilustradora, fotógrafa e cenógrafa.
O livro pode ser comprado aqui.
A three dimensional alphabet by Marion Bataille, a french designer that graduated from Paris' École Superior des Arts Graphiques and works as an illustrator, photographer and stage set designer.
The book can be purchased here.
(Via My Funny Eye.)

The Book as Art

2008-09-28T09:15:00.004+01:00

A MOVABLE FEAST: The Book as Art

September 8, 2008 - November 30, 2008

Uma exposição do National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC, EUA)

Entre as artistas representadas contam-se Carol Barton, Debra Weier, Lois Morrison e Jan Owen.

A obra The Book as Art. Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts é da autoria da curadora da exposição Krystyna Wasserman.

An exhibition from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washingtom, DC, USA)

Among the artists represented are Carol Barton, Debra Weier, Lois Morrison and Jan Owen.

The book The Book as Art. Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts was written by the exhibition's curator Krystyna Wasserman.

Alphabet Truck

2008-09-22T21:24:00.003+01:00

Eric Tabuchi, 2008 (via El blog del futuro del libro).

O silêncio dos livros / The silence of the books

2008-09-22T17:10:00.004+01:00

o silêncio dos livros é um blog dedicado às mais variadas figurações dos livros em suportes visuais como a pintura, a ilustração e a fotografia.
the silence of the books is a blog dedicated to the many representations of books in painting, illustration or photography.
(via Blogtailors)

Samuel Pepys on line

2008-09-04T20:32:00.004+01:00

Um site gerido por Phil Gyford que apresenta os diários de Samuel Pepys, o famoso diarista do século XVII que viveu em Londres. As entradas começaram a ser postadas a 1 de Janeiro de 2003 e para quem não tenha acompanhado atempadamente a sua publicação on line, há rubricas que permitem saber the story so far ou information about the text. Os leitores que queiram contribuir com os seus comentários podem ler as annotations guidelines. Há ainda uma enciclopédia construída pelos utilizadores do site e um mapa onde vão sendo assinalados os vários locais referidos por Pepys no seu diário.

This site run by Phil Gyford is a presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist who lived in London. A new entry written by Pepys is published each day over the course of several years; 1 January 1660 was published on 1 January 2003. Readers who have just joined can read the the story so far, and find information about the text. If they want to post their own annotations they should also read the annotation guidelines. There is also an Encyclopedia featuring topics descriptions written by users of the site and a map signaling all the places refered to in the original text.

Book sculptor

2008-09-03T13:29:00.003+01:00

Nicholas Jones, Melbourne, Australia.

Estantes virtuais / Virtual bookshelves (2)

2008-08-31T22:04:00.004+01:00

BookRabbit: uma plataforma para a partilha de estantes virtual com leitores afins que é também uma livraria on line. Outra iniciativa já englobada no universo da Amazon.

BookRabbit: a website to share your virtual bookshelf with other reader that doubles as a on line bookshop. Another one already taken by Amazon.

Orwell on line

2008-08-30T21:09:00.003+01:00

Os diários pessoais e políticos de George Orwell on line em forma de blog, postados dia a dia, precisamente 70 anos depois de terem sido escritos, tendo sido iniciada a sua publicação a 9 de Agosto (sendo a data final de Outubro de 1942) . Uma iniciativa Orwell Prize, o prémio britânico para escrita política.

The blog with George Orwell's domestic and political diaries will show each entry posted precisely 70 years after the author started it, 9th August (final date is October 1942). Published by the Orwell Prize, Britain’s prize for political writing.

Estantes virtuais / Virtual bookshelves (1)

2008-08-29T22:02:00.005+01:00

Agora que se concretizou a aquisição por parte da Amazon, cá está a Shelfari, uma plataforma para a troca de impressões sobre livros com uma forte componente social.

Freshly acquired by Amazon, here is Shelfari, a social network website focused around books.

Ver também / See also BookPatrol; Booksellers Association; O'Reilly.

The International Convention of Colour

2008-07-15T15:27:00.002+01:00

Tim Fishlock (via FFFFOUND and It's Nice That).

Wordle

2008-07-05T21:06:00.003+01:00

Wordle é um software que permite gerar "nuvens de palavras" a partir de um dado texto. As nuvens dão mais proeminência às palavras que aparecem com mais frequência no texto utilizado como fonte. Podem ainda ser trabalhadas com diferentes fontes, layouts e gamas de cores. As imagens criadas podem ser usadas sem restrições, podem ser impressas ou guardadas na galeria do Wordle para serem partilhadas com amigos.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

A imagem acima foi criada James Long do blog The Digitalist a partir do A Book Publisher's Manifesto for the 21st Century, de Sara Lloyd.
The above image was created by James Long from The Digitalist using A Book Publisher's Manifesto for the 21st Century by Sara Lloyd.

O Kindle da Amazon

2008-07-04T13:46:00.003+01:00

Via Booktaliors.

Espresso Book Machine

2008-06-26T21:24:00.005+01:00

A Blackwell, a cadeia britânica de livrarias especializadas em títulos académicos, vai introduzir nas suas lojas a partir do próximo Outono as Espresso Book Machine, uma máquina de Print on Demand comercializada pela norte-americana On Demand Books.
A EBM está já instalada em 11 outros pontos pelo mundo fora. Permite o acesso a um milhão de títulos, dos quais mais de 600 000 foram licenciados pela Lightning Source, estando os restantes em domínio público.
A máquina imprime, dobra e apara livros em paperback com capas a quatro cores, a pedido e no posto de venda. A versão 1.5 imprime cerca de 40 páginas por minute e tem 3 metros de comprimento e por 2 metros de altura e largura. A versão 2.0, a lançar num futuro próximo, será mais pequena e imprimirá ao dobro da velocidade
“Blackwell is introducing an on-demand printer the Espresso Book Machine to its 60-store chain after signing an agreement with US owner On Demand Books. (…)
Blackwell CEO Vince Gunn described the technology, the brainchild of former Random House US editorial director Jason Epstein, as "trailblazing and pioneering". He added: "From a retailer's point of view, even allowing for the first-generation technology and publisher challenges, this is a fantastic opportunity — sell to demand with no risk to inventory and an opportunity to create incremental revenue streams for ourselves and publishers."
The EBM is already installed in 11 sites worldwide. It can access around one million titles, of which more than 600,000 come through a partnership with Lightning Source; the rest are in the public domain. (...)
The machine, which On Demand describes as an "ATM for books", prints, binds and trims paperback books with four-colour covers, on demand and at point of sale. Version 1.5 prints around 40 pages a minute and is 9 ft long and 5 ft high and deep. Version 2.0, due for a fourth-quarter release, is smaller and prints at more than double the speed. (…)
On Demand works on a leasing arrangement with retailers, offering a buy-out option at a later date. "Because of the newness of the technology our goal is to allow retailers to get in with as little upfront cost as possible," said Neller.”
(via Bookseller.com)

Mais opiniões em Booksellers Association, Booktailors e Digitalist.

More views at Booksellers Association, Booktailors and Digitalist.

StoryCubes - a storytelling tool

2008-06-24T19:13:00.005+01:00

StoryCubes é o nome de um dos muitos projectos da Proboscis, uma organização britânica sem fins lucrativos que se dedica à investigação multidisciplinar de aspectos do mundo contemporâneo, particularmente os que dizem respeito às relações comunitárias e às interacções culturais. Cada face do cubo ilustra ou descreve uma ideia, um objecto ou uma acção, e juntas podem criar múltiplas narrativas ou explorar diferentes relacionamentos entre si numa perspectiva tridimensional. Os StoryCubes podem ser montados de duas maneiras diferentes, permitindo contar a mesma história de duas maneiras.
StoryCubes is one of the many projects developed by Proboscis, a British non-profit organization aimed at the investigation of social and cultural relationships. Each face of the cube can illustrate or describe an idea, a thing or an action, placed together it is possible to build up multiple narratives or explore the relationships between them in a novel three-dimensional way. StoryCubes can be folded in two different ways, giving each cube twelve possible faces – and thus two different ways of telling a story.

Bibliografia / Bibliography: L'apparition du livre

2008-05-29T20:49:00.004+01:00

O clássico de 1957 da autoria de Lucien Febvre e Henri-Jean Martin publicado pelas Éditions Albin Michel e disponível na íntegra e nos formatos Word, RTF e PDF em Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales na Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (duas partes).
The classic on Book History by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin published in 1957 by Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, and available in Word, RTF and PDF formats on Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (two documents).

The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

2008-05-20T12:31:00.004+01:00

Uma visita virtual à exposição sobre William Butler Yeats na National Library of Ireland aberta até ao final do ano (convém ter banda larga e Flash instalado). Podem-se percorrer as várias salas da exposição, explorar cada expositor, assisitir a vídeos e observar ao pormenor os vários documentos em exibição (cartas, manuscritos, edições raras do trabalho do poeta e não só).
"Based on the National Library of Ireland's Yeats exhibition (which runs through the end of this year), the interface (broadband recommended; Flash required) simulates the experience of walking through the actual exhibition: explore display cases, wander through the various rooms, watch videos, etc. The library holds the largest and most important collection of Yeats manuscripts in the world and many of these are are on display, along with letters, rare editions of the poet's works, and the like."
(via Book Patrol)

Queimar livros / Book burning

2008-05-10T21:19:00.003+01:00

"Há 75 anos atrás, os Nazis levaram a cabo aquela que é provavelmente a mais tristemente famosa queima de livros. A 10 de Maio de 1933, milhares de livros banidos pelo Partido Nacional Socialista alemão foram queimados em piras flamejantes. Foi uma terrível declaração de intenções, através da qual o Ministro para o Esclarecimento Popular e Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, redefinia a cultura do seu país dentro de fronteiras específicas. (...)

Wolfgang Hermann - um elemento do Comité para a Purificação do partido nazi - é muito provavelmente o bibliotecário mais infame da História, uma vez que desempenhou um papel fundamental na elaboração da lista, publicada na Boersenblatt, o órgão de informação da indústria editorial alemã. Mais de 2500 autores foram lançados às chamas."

Seventy five years ago, the Nazis staged what is probably the most infamous of all book burnings. On 10 May 1933 thousands of books banned by Germany’s National Socialist regime were tossed into flaming pyres. It was a terrifying statement of intent with the Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, redefining his nation’s culture within strict boundaries. (...)

Wolfgang Hermann - part of the Nazi’s Purification Committee - is probably the most infamous librarian in history as he was instrumental in drawing up the list, which was published in Boersenblatt, the trade magazine for the German publishing industry. More than 2,500 authors were deemed fuel for the fires.

(via AbeBooks)

Um Milhão de Penguins / A Million Penguins

2008-05-06T20:56:00.005+01:00

From A Million Penguins Research Report, by Bruce Mason and Sue Thomas, 24th April 2008, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK:
'In February 2007, Penguin Books and De Montfort University launched A Million Penguins, a collaborative novel open to anyone who wanted to help write it. The novel was to be created on MediaWiki, the same software as Wikipedia, with a similar ethos of collective authoring but the added spice of a risky experiment in the heartland of commercial publishing. "Can a community write a novel?" asked Penguin Digital Publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen. "Let‘s find out…"
Seeded with a first line taken from a volume in the Penguin Classics series, the wiki invited contributions over a five week period. The result may not have been a novel as we know it, but it certainly produced a community of collaborators who created what John Mackinson, the Chief Executive of Penguin Books, called "not the most read, but possibly the most written novel in history".
The Penguin wikinovel, as it came to be known, touched a nerve in many quarters of the literary world and provoked great excitement in the social media community. The level of reaction in the media and across the web showed that there was a real interest in the project despite the fact that many critics dismissed it as a "PR stunt", "badly written" or, in the words of Jordan Jack writing in the Yale Herald "the worst book I‘ve ever read".
Linux.com solicited the views of Douglas Rushkoff, and the Internet guru was not optimistic: "A Million Penguins looks like fun, but it's still likely to remain more a million penguins than a cohesive or coherent bird", says Rushkoff, who points out that every book needs its author.
Other commentators suggested that the wiki was likely to be a failure, albeit a "delightful" one.
It was certainly unorthodox. The authors who came together were not the usual writerly stereotypes scribbling away alone in attics, but an intriguing mix of "gardeners" intent on nurturing the novel; "vandals" determined to ruin it, and "performers" hoping to make it showcase for their talents. What they created together turned out to be quite unique. Later Ettinghausen would blog: "as the project evolved I think I stopped thinking about it as a literary experiment and started thinking about it more as a social experiment".
A year on, he now says "it‘s the best thing I‘ve ever done … but I would never do it again".'

Em Fevereiro de 2007, a Penguin Books e a De Montfort University (Leicester, Reino Unido) lançaram A Million Penguins , um romance colectivo aberto a todos os que quisessem ajudá-lo a escrever. O romance seria criado em MediaWiki, o mesmo software utilizado para a Wikipedia, de acordo com uma ética de colaboração semelhante à utilizada pela famosa enciclopédia on line mas com a novidade de introduzir um elemento de risco e experimentação no âmago da indústria editorial. “Será que uma comunidade de autores pode criar um romance?” questionou Jeremy Ettinghausen, o Editor para o Digital da Penguin, “Vamos descobrir!”.
Com o ponto de partida dado por uma citação retirada de um dos volumes de clássicos da Penguin, a wiki foi aberta a contribuições durante um período de 5 semanas. O resultado poderá não se assemelhar a um romance tal como os conhecemos, mas produziu certamente uma comunidade de colaboradores que criou o que John Mackinson, o Chief Executive da Penguin Books, chamou “não o romance mais lido, mas o romance mais escrito de toda a História”. O romance-wiki da Penguin, como acabou por ficar conhecido, abalou muitos dos quadrantes do mundo literário e provocou um grande entusiasmo na comunidade dos ‘social media’.
As repercussões nos media e através da web provaram que havia um interesse genuíno pelo projecto, apesar de muitos críticos reduzirem todo o projecto a uma “manobra de Relações Públicas”, “má literatura” ou ainda, nas palavras de Jordan Jack no Yale Herald: “o pior livro que alguma vez li”.
Linux.com pediu a opinião de Douglas Rushkoff e o guru da Internet não foi nada optimista: “A Million Penguins é muito divertido mas muito provavelmente continuará a ser um grande grupo de aves sem nunca se chegar a transformar num animal uno e único”, disse Rushkoff chamando a atenção para o facto de todos os livros precisarem de um autor. Outros comentadores sugeriram que a wiki estava destinada ao fracasso, embora um esplendoroso fracasso. Foi certamente uma iniciativa muito pouco ortodoxa. Os autores que congregou não representavam o arquétipo do escritor isolado no seu sótão, mas formavam antes um grupo de “jardineiros” empenhados em alimentarem o romance; “vândalos” determinados a boicotá-lo; e “exibicionistas” alimentando esperanças de dar a conhecer os seus talentos. O que criaram em conjunto acabou por se transformar em algo de fora de vulgar. Mais tarde, Ettinghausen escreveria no seu blog: “à medida que o projecto evoluía deixei de pensar nele como numa experiência literária e mais como uma experiência social". Um ano depois, diria que “foi a melhor coisa que fiz... mas não a voltaria a fazer”.

Faber Classics: Print On Demand

2008-05-04T21:35:00.002+01:00

"Faber is creating a new imprint that will make out-of-print classics available through print on demand. Faber Finds launches on 2nd June with 100 titles, and aims to publish a further 20 titles every month. (...)
The books, priced from £9 upwards depending on length, will be printed by Anthony Rowe Ltd, with text reset by Libre Digital. The cover designs will be automatically generated, with an algorithm creating illustrated borders around the title. (...)
The books will be available through customer order from booksellers and through all the major web players, as well as from a new wiki-style website at http://www.faberfinds.co.uk/, which will encourage a community to form around the project." (theBookseller, via LerBlog)

The Night Life of Trees (Tara Publishing)

2008-05-04T21:19:00.003+01:00

Published by Tara Publishing, a book by Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai and Ram Singh Urveti.
(via Book by its cover)

"an alternative vision of what is possible"

2008-05-04T21:06:00.003+01:00

6,000,000 impressions: handcrafting the book experience is the name of the exhibition taking place at St Bride Library in London from 9 May to 14 June around Tara Publishing, an Indian publisher specialized in handmade books:
"A pioneering project from Tara Publishing, India, is the creation of books made entirely by hand, from the paper to the printing and binding. Content, design and craft: all of these come in to our play with the possibilities of the book. Inspired by older forms, we enjoy transforming the richness of Indian visual arts traditions – through contemporary design and artisanal expertise – into fine bookmaking.
So author, artist and book designer work closely with an organised community of book craftsmen. Whether screen printed by hand on handmade paper, or letter-pressed with tipped in pictures, beaded strings and special boxes, each book is individually made, yet matches the price and quality of a mass produced title. The challenge lies in how many times a book has to be handled, while still maintaining quality and perfect printing.
Today our printing unit is a bustling workshop, run on fair trade practices, employing 12 skilled printers and binders. We have so far created a total of 120,000 handmade books worldwide. Our publishing partners range from museums like the Paul Getty Trust in the US, to design houses like Corraini in Italy. Since each page of every book we have ever made is an original print – screen-printed individually this works out to about 6,000,000 impressions in the service of handcrafting the book experience.
The idea is a daring one, and we believe our success is largely due to the dialogue we encourage between experiment and communication, creativity and manufacture. Ours is an alternative vision of what is possible."

Helpdesk

2008-05-03T21:09:00.001+01:00

(via InfoNorway)

Blood on paper: the art of the book

2008-04-28T20:41:00.006+01:00

De 15 de Abril a 29 de Junho de 2008 no Victoria & Albert Museum de Londres:

"At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past. Blood on Paper will focus on new and contemporary work, and on books where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design. The past twenty years have seen outstanding work by some of the most influential and respected artists of our time.
The exhibition selects books which reveal both the creative process and the soul of the artist in question. Some are iconic works which established the genre of the livre d’artiste after the Second World War; others are surprises from artists who are best known for their work with other sorts of material. Formats and production methods vary enormously. Some works show the virtuosity of traditional ‘hot metal’ printing techniques, others take the commercially-produced book as the starting point of their statements, yet others produce stunning large-scale installations and sculptures.
Seen together, these artists’ books show a truly astonishing inventiveness, many on display to the public for the first time. Artists represented range from Matisse, Picasso and Braque to Anselm Kiefer, Anish Kapoor and Georg Baselitz. Almost all notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have produced books, or works that refer to books: those represented will also include Balthus, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Chillida, Francesco Clemente, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long , Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and many others whose names are synonymous with art today. "
(via LerBlog)

Teia de histórias / Web of stories

2008-04-25T21:04:00.004+01:00

217 Babel Street é um projecto on line de escrita colectiva aberta que usa como metáfora o conceito de um prédio à beira-mar em que a porta de cada apartamento leva a uma história diferente. Os quatro autores - Susanna Jones, Alison MacLeod, Jeff Noon e William Shaw - trabalham independentemente uns dos outros. Novas páginas são criadas a partir de palavras ou expressões marcadas como links. Os autores podem interromper-se uns aos outros e retomar histórias que não sejam suas, levando-as em direcções diferentes. De mês para mês a narrativa muda, alargando-se a novos quartos, novas personagens e novas situações, criando novos percursos para os leitores. A porta da rua permite aceder a todos os apartamentos, onde as diferentes histórias têm início. Todas as personagens mencionadas numa determinada história são listadas ao fundo da página e dão acesso a uma página com a sua descrição, bem como uma lista de todas as páginas em que aparecem.

"217 Babel Street is a web of interconnected stories set in a seaside apartment block. There are twenty apartments in the building. Each of the four writers works independently of the others, starting off stories from different rooms. New pages are produced by creating a link from a word or a phrase on a page that already exists. Writers can interrupt and take over each other’s stories, taking them in different directions. Month by month the narrative changes, expanding into new rooms, characters and situations, creating new pathways for readers to explore.
The front door allows access to any of the apartments, where the different stories begin. All characters mentioned in a given episode are listed at the bottom of the page. Clicking on these character links takes the reader to a page describing the character, as well as a list of all the pages in which they appear."

(via ifbook)

Capital Mundial do Livro / World book capital

2008-04-18T23:09:00.003+01:00

Durante um ano, de 23 de Abril de 2008 a 22 de Abril de 2009, Amesterdão será a Capital Mundial do Livro, uma honra atribuída à capital holandesa pela UNESCO. O Bookbid apresenta toda a programação.

From April 23rd 2008 to April 22nd 2009, Amsterdam will be World Book Capital, a distinction awarded to the Dutch capital by the UNESCO. The Bookbid presents all the events.

The machine that made us

2008-04-18T20:03:00.002+01:00

Um documentátio da BBC4 em seis partes sobre Gutenberg com Stephen Fry como anfitrião a tentar recrear a primeira de todas as impressoras. Aqui está já a primeira parte. E aqui podem ver a segunda, terceira, quarta, quinta e sexta.

A six part BBC4 documentary on Gutenberg hosted by Stephen Fry set to reproduce the very first printing machine. Here's the first part and then the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth.

(via Kottke.org)

The future of books

2008-04-17T20:20:00.002+01:00

Kyle Bean, Brighton, UK, 2008

Sculpted books in bell jars

2008-04-11T22:22:00.002+01:00

Yellow book 2007
La Terre 2007
De Baudelaire au Surréalisme 2007
The Story of Art 2006

Georgia Russell, 1964, Scotland

Refarm Spectacle

2008-04-10T21:41:00.003+01:00

Jennifer Khoshbin, Book Project 2

O segundo de um projecto à volta dos livros criado pela artista Jennifer Khoshbin em parceria com o filósofo Paul Lewis. 30 livros esculpidos e "perdidos" nos passeios e nas ruelas de Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas, para quem quiser os descobrir, examinar, levar para casa ou simplesmente ignorar.

Second in a series of Book Projects created by artist Jennifer Khoshbin and philopher Paul Lewis. 30 carved books to be "lost" on the sidewalks and alleyways of Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas to whom ever might discover, examine, take, or just ignore them.

... and now for something completely different!

2008-04-08T20:46:00.001+01:00

The return of the pop-up book.

Exemplar único / Single copy (2)

2008-04-08T20:37:00.003+01:00

Death by the book, Blu.

Mapear livros / Book mapping

2008-04-07T21:05:00.003+01:00

O trabalho de Stefanie Posavec mostra que a cartografia pode ser usada para algo mais do que a representação do espaço geográfico. Pegando na obra Pela Estrada Fora de Jack Kerouac, a artista propõe a representação da sua estrutura linguística, partindo de um conjunto de regras desenvolvidas por si e que pretendem representar o ritmo da linguagem do autor, os temas abordados na obra e a dimensão das suas frases.

The work of Stefanie Posavec shows that mapping can be used for something more than the representation of geographical space. Taking Jack Kerouc's On the Road, the artist puts forward a representation of its linguist structure according to a set of rules developed by her that represent the author's language, the themes addressed within the book and the length of his sentences.

Via Notcot.

Wikipedia versus Deletopedia

2008-04-06T08:58:00.002+01:00

Num artigo da The New York Review of Books, The Charms of Wikipedia, uma recensão à obra Wikipedia: the Missing Manual da autoria de John Broughton, Nicholson Baker revela a vida difícil de um editor da enciclopédia on line e desenterra alguns dos seus tesouros escondidos e apagados.
"Recentemente, alguém propôs uma Wikimorgue - um caixote do lixo de sonhos desfeitos onde se poderiam ainda ler todos os artigos rejeitados, desde que não fossem difamatórios ou ilegais. Tal como muitas outras pilhas de lixo, acabaria por nos dizer muito ao longo do tempo. Chamar-lhe-íamos Deletopedia."

Nicholson Baker on the difficult life of a Wikipedia editor and the on line encyclopedia's hidden and deleted treasures. The quotes are from the article The Charms of Wikipedia in The New York Review of Books on John Broughton's Wikipedia: the Missing Manual.
"Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue—a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal. Like other middens, it would have much to tell us over time. We could call it the Deletopedia."