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Fashion Icon Books - Karl Lagerfeld's Metamorphoses of an American (GALLERY)
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This is a very interesting ad for Biblioteq using the tag line, "Feel inspired. Biblioteq - Creative Books”.
In the first stencil image, we can see a piece of beef being fed to a carnivorous plant inside the hollowed out face of a woman. The second image shows the hollow face of a baby with a li…[More]
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Hollow Faces to Portray Desires - Biblioteq Ads: Feel Inspired (GALLERY)
The ‘Bookman’, pictured here, is a decorative, yet functional piece of furniture, designed and sold in England by artist Kazmierz Szmauz. The construction is wooden, usually made of mahogany.
While it certainly takes more space that a traditional bookshelf, these displays are much more creativ…[More]
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Ornamental Libraries - The Bookman Shelf
Behold the modern library experience.
The recently renewed Library of Congress includes a bunch of exciting new interactive technologies, courtesy of Microsoft.
These exhibitions make the Library of Congress and its collections more dynamic and accessible than ever. Touch-screen kiosks with the …[More]
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Interactive History Lessons - The Library of Congress Experience (GALLERY)
A lot of people make fun of me for going crazy with highlights and color coding, but the Rainbow Bookshelf takes organization but hue to an extreme.
Chotda organized his extensive library by jacket color, putting all red books, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple together, in the order of the r…[More]
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Color Coded Homes - Rainbow Bookshelf (GALLERY)
Green Chic is a new book that covers how you can start Saving the Earth in Style. Christie Matheson writes in a fun way, without any hint of preaching. It's a delicious read, from recycled cover to cover.
Matheson doesn't advise you to take extreme measures like taking speedy, cold showers or dres…[More]
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Saving the Earth in Style - Green Chic by Christie Matheson
Daniel H. Pink is the bestselling author of A Whole New Mind.
I was fortunate enough to get a copy of his latest book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need. After devouring the book, I wrote a review on Trend Hunter.
It turns out, Dan is a fan of Trend Hunter too…[More]
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Daniel H. Pink - New York Times Bestselling Author (INTERVIEW) (VIDEO)
Designer Kyle Bean created a design to demonstrate how technology has changed the way we source information and relate to books. He made a laptop out of a cheap book to create a visual that illustrates the issue.
Yanko Design notes, "The book/laptop, has a CD-Rom drive complete with CD, a keyboard…[More]
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Secret Book Computers - The Future of Books Laptop (GALLERY)
Dr. Michael Salzhauer, who is a plastic surgeon, has written an illustrated book for children to help them understand why their mother looks different. In 2007, 348,000 women had plastic surgery in the USA for various different kinds of procedures ranging from breast augmentation, face lifts, tummy …[More]
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Plastic Surgery Kids Books - My Beautiful Mommy by Dr. Michael Salzhauer
Home Sweet Home is a book about Banksy, who is arguably the best-known graffiti artist in the world. Banksy is also very shifty, clandestine and surreptitious. Nobody seems to know a whole lot about the Bristol, England native. And whoever knows something is not talking. Anyway, "Home Sweet Home", s…[More]
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Counterculture Biographies - Home Sweet Home is About Banksy's Bristol (GALLERY)
Clementia Marie Giovanetti is a woman with a difficult task. She's been trying to sell her mansion for a cool $1.25 million bucks. But in today's depressed economic times, who has a million and a quarter bucks laying around? So Clementia (a published author) has decided to hold an essay-writing cont…[More]
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Write An Essay About Pet Love And Win A Mansion In Florida
Daniel Simon is an internationally established former Bugatti and Lamborghini designer who has worked on futuristic vehicle concepts. Simon wrote a sci-fi 176 page book called Cosmic Motors where he engages the readers in a futuristic escapade of visionary and fantastic vehicles in a world many cent…[More]
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Futuristic Fantasy Cars - Cosmic Motors by Daniel Simon (VIDEO)
Want to learn more about the war on terror but dislike the way traditional media covers Afghanistan? Try reading Timaking's Afuganisu-tan a Japanese anime book and former web comic. Afghanis-tan
In the 26-part sociopolitical manga series, Middle Eastern countries are represented by female character…[More]
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Sociopolitical Manga - Afuganisu-tan (GALLERY)
There are advice books, and then there's this.
Just announced as the winner of the Oddest Book Title, 'If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs' was written by Big Boom, and is a self-help book written by a man to benefit women. Uh-uh. T
he author writes, "It’s a book, tha…[More]
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Odd Book Titles - If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs (GALLERY)
Amazon's BookSurge has been getting a lot of buzz, as it could potentially change the print-on-demand industry.
BookSurge allows anyone to ship them their books, Amazon will warehouse them and then sell and ship them through the site.
"According to talks with several pod houses, BookSurge has tol…[More]
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Dominating Print-on-Demand Industry - Amazon BookSurge
All good cooks have their favorite recipes. The organized ones have them on file cards, the really organized ones have them on a laptop. But this Kitchen Sync takes the idea to the logical conclusion: the electronic recipe book. The Kitchen Sync is a concept appliance gadget from designer Noah Balm…[More]
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Digital Cookbooks - Kitchen Sync by Noah Balmer (GALLERY)
Story telling is being taken to a whole new level of modern with a digital fiction project from Penguin! The new form of story telling will be found on We Tell Stories over six weeks and will involve six authors and six classic stories... plus a secret seventh story which can be unlocked by clues!
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Interactive Digital Fiction - Penguin's We Tell Stories
Would you take advice from a comic book? Adults in Japan do, where manga, or comics, are hugely popular across all age groups. Japanese manga covers all topics, yet in the western world, there are no comics geared toward adults, and definitely none that could be found in the business section.
Danie…[More]
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Business Manga - The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Daniel H. Pink (GALLERY)
One of the hardest parts about being a student is the cost of education. Textbooks alone cost hundreds of dollars, adding up to thousands throughout their schooling. So how about eliminating that cost entirely and making them free?
Several companies around the world are already doing it including …[More]
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Free Textbooks - Sponsored Ads Help Students (VIDEO)
The Japanese bento box, or lunch box, dates back hundreds of years in Japanese history. The contemporary bento box has been influenced by pop culture elements such as movies, TV shows and manga.
The bento box is "Comprised of food crafted into visually creative, appealing and recognizable forms, a…[More]
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Edible Cartoons - Face Food Bento Boxes (GALLERY)
A new book on "remix culture" has just been released from Vice Magazine writer, Matt Mason.
The Pirate's Dilemma, "How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism," covers new media in 2009, but instead of examining the technology itself, like future music players and mobile devices, it looks at the be…[More]
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Remix Culture - The Pirate's Dilemma (VIDEO)
This a cute bookmark. The Abracadabra has two sides to it and one of them comes inflated. When you place the inflated part in your book to mark your place, the weight of the book deflates it. When you go back to your reading, you need to squeeze the half that's sticking out and this will re-inflate …[More]
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Inflatable Bookmarks - Abracadabra (GALLERY)
The finalists for the "Brit Insurance Designs of the Year" have been selected. The artists fall under several categories, from architecture to fashion, products and interactive art.
The seven finalists currently have their best works on display at the Design Museum in London.
One of these will b…[More]
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Top 7 Designs of 2007 - Brit Insurance Designs of the Year (SUPER GALLERY)
These beautiful, unique and quirky book covers were designed under creative direction by Paul Buckley, but credit for The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition has to be given to various designers whose works have been clustered together to create the commemorative art book.
The Penguin Classics Deluxe …[More]
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Creative Cover Art - Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Paul Buckley (GALLERY)
The very last Harry Potter book will lead to the creation of not one, but two films. This is a fantastic business idea, as the films, based on the seventh Harry Potter book, are guaranteed to drive millions of box office sales as well as DVD purchases.
As it's the final book in the JK Rowling seri…[More]
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Super Stretching Profitability - 7th Harry Potter Book Yields 2 Movies
How cool is this? You can sleep UNDER your bed time story! These blankets from the Bedtime Stories Project have a cute story on them and consist of layers that you can peel off to reveal more layers of the tale.
From what I can tell from the images, the story looks like it's of sleeping beauty. How…[More]
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Fairytale Sheets - Bedtime Stories Project (GALLERY)
Oprah Winfrey is teaming with Skype to set up the first interactive worldwide classroom in an effort help bring awareness about A New Earth.
Skype is sponsoring the program which Oprah hopes will bring her book club to the next level. She's helping to promote Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth whic…[More]
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Interactive Worldwide Classroom - Oprah & Eckhart Tolle on Skype (VIDEO)
Your office cubicle says a lot about you. It says you believe in it's semi-solid structure to keep you set apart from your inferior co-workers and it also says you have earned your place in corporate life.
The downside is your cubicle also says you're boring, unimaginative, and no different than th…[More]
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Cubicle Decor - Cube Chic by Kelley L. Moore (GALLERY)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Hollywood's most famous young twins, are launching their own style bible. The fashion book called Influence which is fitting seeing how heavily they have been able to impact the wardrobes of millions of young girls worldwide.
The Penguin-published book will be released …[More]
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Olsen Twins Fashion Coffee Table Book - Influence (GALLERY)
This concept is similar to writing something in junior high and having your teacher mail it to you years after you left the school. It would be so exciting to get mail from yourself you had forgotten you wrote.
Future Me is a website that does exactly that, via email. All you do is create a new en…[More]
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