posted on: 01 July 2008
In his 2-volume work, 'Décorations Polychromes', artist Ernst Ewald assembles what amounts to a grand tour through some of the most important elements from the decorative arts output of the Renaissance, found in buildings from Europe (and North Africa).
posted on: 21 January 2007
“ From this place, and from this day forth begins a new era in the history of the world, and you can all say that you were present at its birth.”
posted on: 08 December 2006
Via India,Ink.:
“ Penguin's just announced a new series of My Penguin classics with naked front covers - white art-quality paper, blank save for the Penguin logo. It's up to you to clothe them, in illustration or collage or whatever, and if you e-mail it to Penguin they'll post it to their online gallery.”
A nice idea.
posted on: 31 August 2006
“ Early in the 19th century, the need for speed, simplicity, and economy in book production led to the introduction of cloth as a binding material and casing as a binding process. This exhibit chronicles the growth of English and American publishers' binding from its infancy in the 1830s to its decline in the early 20th century.”
posted on: 25 August 2006
Beautiful pictures of Libraries:
Libraries are the keepers of human history, the shape of men efforts to understand and remember, they bring perspective to human history and enable anyone to learn and keep learning.
posted on: 25 January 2006
From The British Library :
" Digitised Renaissance festival books (selected from over 2,000 in the British Library's collection) that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 "
posted on: 19 December 2005
posted on: 01 September 2005
“ Codefetch's code excerpts connect users of open source software with great books about those software products”
Basically it lets you search for a piece of code and brings it back with an excerpt of the book is in, a shot of the book itself and where to buy it. An interesting idea. It could be used to look for books starting from a phrase in a online Library, for example.