Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Monday, 23 January 2012

Museum Without Walls, Gallery Without Roof


The great Jonathan Meades is publishing his new book through Unbound, it will be the first time that scripts from his documentaries have been put into print and will bring many of his articles and other writings together as well. Here's the pitch:
It’s an astonishment, maybe even an outrage, that Jonathan Meades’ writing and thinking about the hundreds of places he’s visited have never been edited into a book before.
Over the coming months you will watch it come together as he sifts through the scripts to sixty films, and the hundreds of pieces and he has written and delivered over the past twenty years. The plan is to produce a handsome volume (heavy on the handfeel) containing five full scripts of his most important TV films (illustrated with stills) and about forty pieces, including ten longer essays. Very little of this material will have been read by a general audience; the scripts, in particular, have never appeared in print before and offer an extraordinary insight into Meades meticulous working methods and his subversive visual style.
Head to Unbound to put yourself down for a copy, whether an ebook, a hardback or one of the more personalised options (Update: hardback copies are now available from Amazon).

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Libraries

A house in Pozuelo, Madrid, by A-Cero
Ingmar Bergman's library
Karl Lagerfeld in his library
A concept design for Stockholm's new public library

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Fine Books

I love books and for me nothing compares to the reading experience of settling down with a good-looking, pleasingly weighty, hardbacked tome. This new collection from Penguin is maybe a little too busy in places but they are bold and are definitely worth a look, if only for that great Crime and Punishment cover design. Available exclusively from Waterstones, if you're interested.

Monday, 25 August 2008

Faber Finds

The Ministry of Type has a post up about a new imprint from Faber & Faber called Faber Finds which brings out of print books back from oblivion. This is only possible with Print on Demand so books are only published once they've been ordered, but more intriguingly, this allows each Faber Finds book to sport a unique computer-generated cover design; PostSpectacular details the process of creating a “design machine” capable of generating the infinite "number of unique designs, one for each single book ever printed in this range." Everything about this venture is fascinating and the way Marian Bantjes' border designs are assembled is remarkable.

Saturday, 23 February 2008

Books


Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

- Arnold Lobel