I’m glad to see that the New York Public Library is continuing their collaboration with artists and crafters after their popular Design By the Book series with Design*sponge. This time they are partnering up with with Maura Madden, author of Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Craftsy with Your Friends All Year Long, to [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Jul 28
A Day in the Life
It appears that librarians are posting “day in a life” time lines on their blogs this week. I read the first couple with mild interest, but as more and more have appeared, I find myself increasingly intrigued. As a non-practicing librarian, it is nice to know what a typical day entails. Here are a few [...]
Jul 27
Art Stuff
It has been awhile since I posted something art or design related. I saw this video from Etsy today and immediately fell in love, not only with the beautifully shot video, but with the whole experience of the Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design. While the curator talks of the space as [...]
Jul 20
Running to e-books? Not me.
I have been trying to gather my thoughts concerning e-books for awhile now, after I heard about possible initiatives by California’s governor to switch out e-books for textbooks and similar initiatives in other states. While e-books were touted as he next big thing years ago, they didn’t seem to really hit the big time until [...]
Jul 09
Marketing Can Be Beautiful
I saw this on the DCPL Labs website and had to repost because I loved it that much. The Johnson County Library in Kansas has covered their delivery trucks with these gorgeous and funny advertisements referencing classic books found in the library. According to this article in the Kansas City Star, the ad agency involved [...]
Jul 09
Death of The Printed Blog
It appears as though The Printed Blog has met its inevitable end, with its founder pulling the plug earlier this week due to lack of advertising funds and investment capital. I originally wrote about The Printed Blog back in February and questioned its staying power. Though a fairly novel concept, it seemed like yet another [...]
