Last week a very interesting building opened up in Seoul.
The temporary structure, a project from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas (famous/infamous in the library world as the force behind Seattle Public Library), can be lifted with three cranes and rearranged to rest on different sides for different purposes. Events [...]
Immediately after the first run of Creating the Future for Libraries notebooks were released and sold out I started taking orders for the next batch. I had an idea of what I wanted to do for the second version but it took me a few attempts to be happy with the design. [...]
Ok, not for your entire collection, but for a special display?
I love one of the comments on the original post
The author never had books. It looks good, stylish, but absolutely useless. It’s hard to keep books vertically even on horizontal regular bookshelf. This one will make you curse
[via design milk]
From Good Experience:
Wawa is a much-loved chain of friendly, well-run convenience stores on the east coast. They’re particularly well known for their coffee… less known is the story of their first cup:
Russo was general manager of the Aston Township store, the second Wawa, 35 years ago, and one day he brought in a 30-cup percolator [...]
Last month when I was in Mexico I had the opportunity to visit a number of small and sometimes rural public libraries. I was totally impressed with the enthusiasm of the library workers and the pride they took in providing library services.
Even more inspirational was the signage treatment provided, I think, for [...]
I recently posted about some nice dialog box language I came across and I saw some more today. I’d much rather click on a “Ooh, That Sounds like Fun!” button than one that reads “Register!” That cutesy language, however, might be at the limit for how far it can go without obfuscating [...]
I don’t speak or read Lithuanian and you probably don’t either. Good thing that nice design transcends language. Take a look at these beautiful sites.
The first image is the homepage of a big Lithuanian library wiki called Grazi tu Mano.
And *this!* This is the start page for a library run Alternate Reality [...]
There are at least three things to like about this new book.
The content looks interesting.
The cover is attractive.
It has been published in print *and* it is being released as a PDF with a Creative Commons license, as are all of AU Press titles.
I’m happy to finally be able to announce that the DCPL is now part of the Flickr Commons. The library’s photos just went public.
Among the photos there are images of buildings around DC, some colorized images, and portraits of people (many of which have awesome mustaches). One set of [...]
