“the Nook eBook still coming to Barnes & Noble in 2009?”
(via d:r)

No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One Heads to Auction

“…Christie’s, which plans to auction the machine on Friday, estimated that it would fetch between $15,000 and $20,000. Mr. McCarthy wrote an authentication letter — typed on the Olivetti, of course…” —via NYTimes.com

Going West book animation for the New Zealand Book Council
(via design:related via swissmiss)

The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox book published by Rizzoli (designed by Angus Hyland w/ Pentagram)

The Great Penguin Bookchase game
(discovered via Ace Jet 170:)

Slideshow / Art House: The Private Spaces of 8 Great Artists
(discovered via Fast Company)

cover design for Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom
by Paul Rand c. 1963 (via studiosmith)

“Penguin designs should be seen beyond the bookshelf” (article via guardian.co.uk)

Q & A with Isaac Tobin, Senior Designer at University of Chicago Press
(via The Casual Optimist, illustration above by Lauren Nassef)

The Artist in the Office: How To Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week
by illustrator Summer Pierre (via summerpierre)

a lovely collection of vintage children’s book cover designs
(via GIGI Interior Design 集集設計)

FaceOut Books collects Alvin Lustig jacket designs too.
I’m jealous of their incredible collection.

The Silver Spoon for Children beautifully illustrated by Harriet Russell, new Phaidon cookbook spotted at the bookstore

Alex Steinweiss, The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover limited-edition book,
just published by TASCHEN Books, with author Steven Heller

(incase you are wondering what to get me for my birthday…)

redesignrelated:

Brand New on the refreshed logo for The New York Public Library: a look at “An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution” (via Brand New)