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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)

This idea of digital archeology has been explored by Graphic Designer Boris Meister from ECAL University of Art and Design, Lausanne Switzerland. The book, Above the Cloud is an atlas about social networks archeology, death and digital marks left in distress on the internet. Over 6 million Facebook accounts belong to dead people or ‘Ghosts’, and Meister explores how people continue ‘Semi-Living’ through interactions from friends.

Epitaphs are also explored through the last messages written on social networks before dying. An example is Taylor Sauer who posted:  “I can’t discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha.” on Facebook one minute before she had a fatal car accident.

(Source: itsagoldrush.wordpress.com)

visual-poetry:

“internet directory” by daniel temkin

(lists all the “serious” sites on the internet)

deltamualpha:

Day’s worth of Flickr printouts fills Amsterdam art gallery | The Verge

skycave:

it’s a small world after all.

(Source: skycave, via theonlymagicleftisart)

happy2bsad:

Hello! I’ve decided to start selling physical copies of the first issue zine again! However, because this time I will be printing on demand rather than by bulk (I don’t want to order a bulk amount of copies in case I end up with a surplus), they are more expensive to cover the costs! They now cost £8 instead of £6. However, if you still want a copy, it’s on the right hand side ————————->

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A much abridged version of Wikipedia!

I wonder what it’s fully realized physical size would actually look like…

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