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✖ Via Techno Tuesday: “Desire”

Techno Tuesday is a comic drawn by Andy Rementer:

Andy Rementer is a creative person based in Philadelphia. He received a bachelors degree from The University of the Arts in 2004. From 2005 to 2007 he worked for Fabrica, while living in Treviso, a small town in northern Italy. He currently divides his time between graphic design, cartooning and illustration. […] Aside from doodling Andy enjoys Italian meals, playing the banjo and drinking coffee. (more)

Check his personal website for more of his work.

• Aug 11, 2010 link notes tagged: art illustration comic humor technology book ebook iPad vintage history time obsolescence evolution devolution

✖ Via Yale Alumni Magazine: “This Is My Book” by the Editors, March/April 2010

“The bookplate, which emerged in the 1400s as a way to adorn a book with its owner’s coat of arms, has evolved over the centuries into an artistic genre of its own. Artists specialize in it; collectors swap pieces old and new, and sometimes commission a plate not for their books, but for its own sake.” (more)

See all 27 pieces from the slide show. Read a related post in The New York Times’ Books blog. Bookplates are also called “ex-libris” : learn more about them on Wikipedia.

Found via Infoneer (if you still don’t who’s Infoneer, meet the guy).

• Mar 17, 2010 link notes tagged: art technology communication book ebook bookplate ex-libris

Of course, I still love real books. One of the things missing from eBooks is a sense of each book’s physical size. I bet most of us approach a book differently if it’s 600 pages long rather than a skimpy 150. But it’s hard to tell what you’re getting into on the iPhone.

✖ Via Physicalising ebooks (Phil Gyford’s website)

• Dec 30, 2008 link notes tagged: technology book sense ebook iphone stanza Classics