Content, Creation and Convenience
…Middax offers a service whereby it delivers five dinner recipes each week plus corresponding ingredients, right to the customer’s door. Part of me find this ridiculous, especially because I love going...
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Improving Library Signs
There’s more to design than appearances, but the way an object looks is often the most immediate and apparent aspect of how it has been designed. The power of this immediacy allows some designers to...
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National Library Symbol History & Implications
From ALA Library Fact Sheet 30: The image debuted in its official capacity in the 1982 ALA publication, A Sign System for Libraries, by DeVore and Mary S. Mallery, and was the cover story of the...
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Corkscrew Ink Chambers
A nice illustration of how design is more than surface characteristics. [via FastCo Design]
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I Visited the Kenton Branch of Multonomah County Library & Liked It.
The space has a really nice feel due in part to pleasant natural light and smart furniture. Without looking temporary, the desks and stacks seem modular and I bet the space could easily be configured...
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Space Issues
Is the furniture in your library being used as originally intended? [hang2column]How planners probably imagined people using this space[/hang2column] [hang2column]How people are actually using this...
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ROOM FOR RENT
Nothing library related here. I’m just so enamored with this sign – especially the Greek mythology reference – that I have to post it.
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VPL’s Emergency Notices
Vancouver Public Library does a great job with displaying emergency notices on their website.
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Libraries in Which I’d Live: Stuttgart Edition
I don’t know anything about the services of the library or what goes on there. Let’s hope they’re as striking as the building! Clicking though the city’s photos I noticed that the mayor handed out...
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Useful / Usable / Desirable
Here’s a slide from a presentation that Amanda and I gave yesterday. Something to aim for!
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Saul Bass for the Bell System
Here’s the pitch that Saul Bass gave to the Bell System when he was updating their identity. It isn’t a must watch but I’m posting it for a couple of reasons. #1). The beginning is really weird. I...
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Signs On Signs. Never Good.
It probably isn’t a good idea to post signs on your library that read “library closed” when that’s not what you mean. Removing the paragraph at the bottom (that no one is going to read anyway) would...
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A new identity for Copenhagen children’s library
The identity is based on a modular system of shapes that can form different characters and patterns. The idea is that the kids can have fun with this system – creating stories and characters of their...
View ArticleShowering in the Library
It was a hot, dusty day in Moab, Utah. I drove into town from my beautiful campsite overlooking the La Sal Mountains, where I’d been cycling and exploring the beautiful country. I was taking a few days...
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