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Ways of reading

A fan of brevity I enjoyed this neat list on reading from A Working Library (a site that sports one of the finest designs I noted this year). Of the nine pieces of advice one that I’ve only recently taken to heart is this: If a book bores you, or tells you things you already know, […]

Book Worship

I still rue the day when I parted with boxes of ex-library stock with covers just as fine those on display at Book Workship. Collected by Shawn Hazen, the (mostly) Penguin book covers sport some beautiful examples of graphic illustration and design from 1950’s — 70’s. Via Big Contrarian