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NTU Art & Design Book 10/11

“The Manual for Creative Action” is the deliberately unconventional title of the new Nottingham Trent University Art and Design Prospectus - a book that encourages creative growth, personal development and self expression. The book is differentiated throughout by a series of statements and slogans such as ‘Sharpen Your Pencil’, ‘Love Your Imagination’ and ‘Wear Your Ideas’.

I personally love the treated type on each page and how it fits so well with the copy. 

Typosynaesthesia by Anna Short

The word synaesthesia (which literally means “together sensation”) is a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense triggers an involuntary response in another. A common example is colour-grapheme synaesthesia, which causes letters or numbers to be perceived as coloured. The precise colours perceived are unique and usually remain consistent for each person.

‘Typosynaesthesia’ is a simultaneous exploration of typefaces and colour-grapheme synaesthesia, with each letter and number displayed in a different colour, as a synaesthete might perceive them.

The Artisan Notebook collection by Benjamin Reynaert features four distinct books individually crafted from the most beautiful materials — handmade linen bookcloth is backed with Japanese paper to create hard covers, handmade headband detailing adorns the top and bottom of the spine adding a hint of contrast. Each book is professionally hand sewn and cased in at the Brooklyn studio and bindery. The unique tall and slim dimensions are based in part on Proust’s original Parisian notebooks as well as dimensions for carrying or tucking into a back pocket, and for drawing and sketching.

nevver:

“…the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”

pukeandcandy asked: Do you have any tips for cutting the uneven edges on a text block off? I've been trying to do it with a heavy duty x-acto, but I'm having trouble keeping my cuts straight on thicker blocks (even with a metal ruler). I used to use a guillotine, but I don't have access to it anymore :c

I’m not actually sure if there are any other methods, as I currently have access to a guillotine at my university to tidy any of my books edges… However, as I’m soon graduating, I’m also interested to know if there’s any other methods people can suggest?

(Usually when I’m making books at home, I have a cheap A3 desk guillotine I use which proves quite useful- although obviously it can’t slice through entire book blocks, just single signatures!) x

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Torjan Rood Vastveit   |   http://sdg.no

“Annual Report for TINY, a chain of stores that sells clothes and toys for children.”

Torjan is a passionate designer and ideas guy experienced in working on forward-thinking brands. Torjan has more than 7 years of experience working for brands in Norway , the UK and Denmark. Areas of expertise include branding, advertising and interactive design. Hobbies include good sound systems, design of all sorts, and spotting fast red Italian cars on the road, or on YouTube.

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Libraries give us Power Books make us Free by Mina Bach

A celebration of the public library system, reading and books.
150 x 240mm, 140 pages, hand bound.

farewell-kingdom:

Boarding School is a brother sister team from Seattle & Maine. We find recycled wood and create beautiful finished boards which are bound into journals, books, and albums (via).

slowlyeden:

Louis Couperus book covers by Jan Toorop, via The Rijksmuseum

Fully Booked: Ink On Paper by Gestalten

I’ll level with you here, we’re getting pretty tired of the print vs digital debate. We love the endless scroll and unbridled sharing of the internet just as much as we love the tactility and uniquely possessive nature of books. Can’t we all just get along here guys? Still, when Gestalten get in touch with news that they’re producing a volume dedicated to the very best in book design and print innovation it IS pretty tempting to tell digital where to shove it.

But we’d never stoop that low. We’d rather celebrate the arrival of this fresh new tome, Fully Booked: Ink On Paper, by telling you that it celebrates the very best of what print does well; foiling, debossing, Japanese binding, experimental print techniques, unique formats and really exceptional design. It’s reassuringly full of work by some of the finest practitioners and publishers in the world today, and as you’d expect from a work that wrestles with such weighty content, it’s beautifully designed too.

So enough of the squabbling everybody, print’s still going strong, but that doesn’t mean you have to set fire to your iPad; it’s much more exciting to live in a world in which we can celebrate books on the internet and glorify gadgets in print. (Source: itsnicethat.com)