preliminary renderings for the Francis Gregory Library, design collaboration between Adjaye Associates and Weincek Associates
(discovered via a tweet by marklamster via DC Metrocentric)
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Entries tagged “library”
discovery at the bookstore:
This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
by Marilyn Johnson
hand-lettering and illustration by Ross MacDonald
jacket design by Milan Bozic
photos from “Sesame Street Exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library”
(discovered via a swissmiss tweet via My Modern Metropolis)
Book Mountain by MVRDV, new library in Spijkenisse is schedule to be complete in 2011.
(discovered via Dezeen)
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A film adaptation of the 1978 children’s book classic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will hit theaters in Fall 2009.
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new work by Pentagram: Murals for The Library Initiative
Michael Bierut with a team of designers at Pentagram collaborate with other graphic designers, artists and architects to help beautify the elementary school libraries in New York City’s five boroughs. The expansive L!brary Initiative includes 5 newly built libraries in the Bronx, featuring murals by Rafael Esquer, Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister and Yuko Shimizu, and Charles Wilkin.
I first read about this inspiring, fantastic, beautiful project in the New York Times last week in an article titled, A Is for Artwork That Lures Bronx Schoolchildren to New Libraries.
(the mural seen in the image above is by Christoph Niemann for P.S. 69 in the Bronx).
Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 years of Golden Books exhibition now makes its way to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
The beautiful typographic Library Full Of Dead Trees collaboration between artist Gordon Young and Why Not Associates… (via CR Blog)
The Design Auction collaboration with St Bride Library (via Swiss Legacy)
“ A few years ago, public libraries were being written off as goners. The Internet had made them irrelevant, the argument went. But libraries across the country are reporting jumps in attendance of as much as 65% over the past year, as newly unemployed people flock to branches to fill out résumés and scan ads for job listings… ”
Best Careers 2009: Librarian È
“Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today’s librarians must be clever interrogators, helping the patron to reframe their question more usefully. Librarians then become high-tech information sleuths, helping patrons plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records, often starting with a clever Google search but frequently going well beyond…”
US News and World Report lists Librarian as one of their
30 Best Careers of 2009
(discovered link via the hermenautic circle blog)
