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Judging a Book by its Cover, and Bookmark

Igor Udushlivy has designed some friendly book jackets that cleverly interact with the presiding bookmark.

Link: Icoeye: designer, who loves to make icons

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Literary Landscape

Moleskin is presenting a new exhibit at the MoMA Tokyo Design Store where authors and artists are invited to compile and illustrate Moleskin notebooks. Pictured is Nendo's concept on the idea of "place".

Link: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/7884/nendo-part-of-detour-moleskine-exhibition.html

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Some Books You'll Get Into

Kansas City, Missouri is an oddly interesting Midwestern city for design much like Cincinnati, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana are for architecture. Local citizens were asked to nominate books that most appropriately represented the city. The spines of the chosen books' covers were recreated as an architectural feature to mask the parking garage at the public library.

Link: Innovative Way Of Promoting The Library.

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A Green Gift

...is both earth-friendly and costing a bundle of green paper money. These purses are made from hardback books.

Link: http://www.rebound-designs.com/

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PS

I will beat you to the chase: Chris shopping for purses? How novel!

Drop everything, pop-up ads make a comeback

Ulterior motive aside:)

These are not the intrusive and annoying Internet pop up ads, rather, the tactile ones designers enjoy.

"Drop everything" in red Compacata typeface opens up the 4-page ad in SI's Swimsuit Edition. The following spread pops-up with the symbol for Tony Sopranos "family" headquarters, the Bada Bing strip club.

For a how to book check out:


http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/list-services/36069.html

http://www.adpunch.org/entry/hbos-the-sopranos-bada-bing-is-a-winner/