This is dangerous. You can be doing a lot of work as a creative and still feel as though you’re not doing much of anything you love.
A long-time friend of mine who experienced this feeling early on in his career described it as: “having an apartment with a lot of things in it, and yet still…
Bookcase Petrol Bowser
An art installation by Nissan for their LEAF model in Sydney, Australia showing how petrol bowsers might be used in a ‘World Without Petrol’.
Typography Jokes by Gary Nicholson
“Personal Project to design a series of posters with typographically focused puns to lift the spirits of fellow designers.”
This 2009 blog post by Colleen Lindsay is a must-read:
http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2009/02/self-promotion-or-warning-being.html
- Foire aux livres, Romainmôtier.
Second-hand book fair makes up a beautiful archway between Abbey Courtyard and Main Street, in France.Photo credits to timtom.ch & overthemoon
“An engagingly fun piece… Getting a tone partway between Pratchett and Rankin, though slightly quieter than either in narration, The Court of Dreams is short, fast-paced, and well worth picking up.” - Drying Ink
Available for a limited time - May 19th-23rd - from Amazon.
Walls the Colour of Charlotte Web’s First Gosling.
The 200th issue of The Paris Review included a series of paint chips inspired by literature. If you happen to be a book lover, you’ll dig these swatches depicting the colour of Holly Golightly’s cheeks, the inside of Rothko’s forearm, or Lady Montdore’s mink. (Even if your imagination disagrees with the shades, it’s a fun exercise.)
(via peteditor)
Books will turn you on!
Limited edition stickers for Feasting with Panthers, a literary fantasy novel by Lyle Blake Smythers, now on sale from Pink Narcissus Press.
Also available from Amazon or Barnes and Noble in both e-book and trade paperback.
Well that was easy.
And that’s why you never open your query letter with a yes or no question.
Galileo Galilei
Graphic decription of Venus phases (in Il saggiatore, In Roma, appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1623)Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Library, Florence, Rari 153
One of the engravings presented in Galileo’s Saggiatore shows the planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Venus (with its various phases), as they appeared to Galileo through the telescope.
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
Giveaway ends June 06, 2012.
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