Type City (made of metal movable type) by Hong Seon Jang.

Beast of Burden by Ellen Jewett (via @RaeBeta)

Micro cameras inside actual instruments, i.e. the plans for my new home. (Maybe a few more windows on the sides.) (info via @kiplet)

One more from His Dream of the Skyland, art by Aya Morton

Aya Morton, page spread from His Dream of the Skyland

vikingpenguinbooks:

How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries

An interview with the creator

The concept, sponsored by Locke’s imaginary Department of Urban Betterment, is that New Yorkers will pick up unfamiliar titles while running their errands and then, perhaps, replace them the next day with favorite books of their own. That’s in an ideal world. Of the twoguerrilla libraries that the artist has fashioned, one has been used properly while the other has had its entire collection repeatedly ganked by sticky-fingered pedestrians. Its shelves were also stolen.

But Locke has many more libraries planned. With plywood consoles that slip over payphones as neatly as aprons, these sidewalk objets are endlessly replicable. (No doubt they’ll feature in his 2012 Columbia course, “Hacking the Urban Experience.”) I caught up with Locke over the weekend to ask him about what was and wasn’t working with these literary outposts, as well as why he started the project in the first place. 

More at The Atlantic

François Schuiten is one of those artists I tend to mysteriously forget about and then have the joy of rediscovering all over again. 

I very much admire how he can bring an intimate moment into a extravagant landscape–or, more often than not, a bookscape.

This would be perfect for Taran! And perfectly adapted to the way she likes to organize things.

vikingpenguinbooks:

Tree shaped book case for kids room

via Design Buzz

It just occurred to me that Boris Artzybasheff was quite likely influenced/inspired by Ernst Haeckel.

Cheese balls are oddly attractive in swarm formation.