Hand-Copying the Constitution
Friend of The Cramped Petey “Pete” Conklin sent me this especially timely New York Times article by Morgan O’Hara, an artist who began copying the Unites States...
Author: Shawn Mihalik
The History of Movable Paper in One Massive, 9,000-Book Collection — Atlas Obscura
The History of Movable Paper in One Massive, 9,000-Book Collection — Atlas Obscura Ellen G.K. Rubin never saw a pop-up book as she was growing up, so when she b...
How Letter Press Printing Came Back from the Dead — Wired
How Letter Press Printing Came Back from the Dead — Wired Thousands of tiny letterpress shops (and a good helping of larger ones) now crank out wedding invitati...
Artist Proves That Basic School Supplies Work Fine for Making Art — Boing Boing
Artist Proves That Basic School Supplies Work Fine for Making Art — Boing Boing What we believe in.
Balabanoff Baron Fig Confidant Cover
I, like many users of analog writing tools, am a big fan of leather notebooks. Nothing beats the smell, the heft, the tactile sensation, and the air of importan...
Old Diaries — Danny Gregory
Fascinating video in which Danny Gregory shares some of his favorite old diaries, as well as some of his favorite boring ones. (Via Austen Kleon’s always ...
Gerhard Steidl is Making Books an Art Form — The New Yorker
Gerhard Steidl is Making Books an Art Form — The New Yorker Fascinating profile in the New Yorker last week. The whole thing is worth a read, but here are a few...
The Strange and Grotesque Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books — Atlas Obscura
The Strange and Grotesque Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books — Atlas Obscura “Manuscripts can be seen as time capsules,” says Johanna Green, Lecturer in B...
Why We Use Giant Post-It Notes As Our Publishing Calendar — The Focus Course Blog
Why We Use Giant Post-It Notes As Our Publishing Calendar — The Focus Course Blog With 90% of our working hours spent staring at a screen, we’re always looking ...
The humble ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy — Quartz
The humble ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy — Quartz Fascinating. And there’s some great stuff here about the surprisi...