Andrea Magnani and Giovanni Delvecchio of the Italian design collective Resign claim theirs is a methodology “for all the designers who believe in magic and symbolic value of things.” Via Cool Hunting Twelfth in an occasional series.
From your friends at Significant Objects.
Photo: World’s Smallest Book: “Measuring 2.4 x 2.9 mm and presented in a wooden box including a magnifying glass: http://tumblr.com/xr4d721ee # Beware of blurbs – Surprisingly (to me) this Laura Miller column cites evidence that book-buyers rely heavily on blurbs: … Continue reading
1) Rick Moody will publish his new novel, The Four Fingers of Death (Little, Brown), on July 28. 2) Margot Livesey says: “I adored David Malouf’s new novel, Ransom. Malouf approaches the death of Patroculus, and Achilles’ response to that … Continue reading
From your friends at Significant Objects.
1) Wesley Stace‘s third novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on July 1st. It will be published in the USA by Picador on February 2011. 2) Sam Means and Elliott Kalan … Continue reading
At the Guardian‘s books blog, Alix Rayner runs Significant Objects through Kantian Critique of Judgment filter before deciding that what we’re doing is perfectly OK. Excerpt: Ad man turned novelist F Scott Fitzgerald declaimed advertising as having contributed “exactly minus … Continue reading
It had to happen eventually. In September 2009, I noticed that a modern smartphone or PDA of some sort had somehow ended up in a photo on the cover of the 1960 French edition of Chester Himes’ Imbroglio negro (All … Continue reading
Above, and after the jump, the latest additions to our Significant Objects Owners Photo Pool: Two from the recent Epistolary Week series.
Fox News Attacks Chicago Libraries – “They eat up millions of your hard earned tax dollars. It’s money that… http://tumblr.com/xr4clu1h4 # “Reading appears passive because it takes place in a chair, on a bed, at the beach, in the tub, … Continue reading
1) Dean Haspiel‘s latest comic, The Angel, is currently featured in South Brooklyn’s OVERFLOW magazine. You can also see it online at ACT-I-VATE. 2) Matthew Sharpe will be reading in New York with Arthur Nersesian on July 8 & 9 … Continue reading
Silent March from Ciné Institute on Vimeo. 1) Annie Nocenti spent four months in Haiti, just after the 2010 earthquake, producing films, reportage, short docs, and a feature documentary — with her students at the Cine Institute in Jacmel. She … Continue reading
