Congreso Internacional del Mundo del Libro

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

Noriko Ambe, Tokyo, Japan.

Book Mobile - I wanted to be an actress

Lisa Occhipinti, USA

Prints

Vicent Hary, Paris, France

Via Share Some Candy

Muita Letra / Berlim Museum of Letters

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

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

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

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

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

Lettre de Voltaire + Baudelaire

Aoyama Hina, Tokyo + Paris.