Monday, November 15, 2010

endpapers

endpapers from:

How Far is Far? by Alvin Tresselt and Ward Brackett, 1964 / See What I Am by Roger Duvoisin, 1974 / Sparkle and Spin by Ann and Paul Rand, 1957 / What is the World? by Betty Miles and Remy Charlip (endpapers by Ray Johnson), 1958 (previously) / A Day of Winter by Betty Miles and Remy Charlip, 1961 / Swimmy by Leo Lionni, 1968 / What A Fine Day For... by Ruth Krauss and Remy Charlip, 1969 (previously)

Saturday, November 13, 2010

feather pen

(details from) Everything About Easter Rabbits by Wiltrud Roser (translated by Eva L. Mayer), Thomas Y Crowell Co., NY, 1972 (original German edition, 1968)

Friday, November 12, 2010

R.P.

Either Or (shuttlecock, superball, balsa wood, paint, wood, fan) / Milk Crate (mdf, acrylic paint) / Ascending Rolls (wood, mdf, acrylic paint)
Roula Partheniou at MKG127.
Sadly, ends today.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Le Petit Prince (Canadian Educational Edition) , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Bellhaven House Ltd., 1969 (1966)

somewhere

from Your Space: How to Put it Together for Practically Nothing by Jon Naar & Mary Ellen Moore, St. Martin's Press, NY, 1979

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

To Draw On Stone:

FROM AFAR IT IS AN ISLAND by Bruno Munari, World Publishing Company, 1972 (originally published in Italian, 1971)

(Infinite thanks to Burgin Streetman of Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves for her astounding generosity.)

previously---Bruno Munari: Images of Reality

Monday, November 8, 2010

synthèse des arts

Low cost housing development near Berlin. Architect: Eduard Ludwig, Painter: Theodor Werner, 1952
Mural by Hans Fischer, primary school in Saatlen Zurich
Play sculptures in Stockholm, Sweden, by Egon Möller-Nielsen
Mosaic in a primary school in Riehen, Switzerland. Architect: T. Vadi, Painter: Charles Hinderlang
From Synthèse Des Arts/Art In European Architecture by Paul Damaz, Reinhold Publishing, NY, 1956

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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Burl Ives Songbook. Ballantine Books, 1953 (1966)
G.B.S. on Music, Penguin Books, 1962
Improvisation, Hodgson & Richards, University Paperback, 1966 (1972)

Friday, November 5, 2010

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from The End of August at the Hotel Ozone by Jan Schmidt, 1967
(Thanks Kirill)

Thursday, November 4, 2010

eyeless sight

Design for the new Soviet dowsing rod.
from Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander & Lyn Schroeder, Bantam Books, 1971

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

birds

Untitled (birds), enamel on unfired clay, 2008
from Jon Pylypchuk, François LeTourneux, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, 2010

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

...

(details from) How To Tell a Monster from a Friend by Alvin Granowsky, DC Heath & Co., 1973

Thursday, October 28, 2010

eye four kettle ear

A Wet Handle by Ivor Cutler, Arc Publications, 1996