All my hummingbirds have alibis

Max Ernst’s A Little Girls Dreams of Taking the Veil, a wonder of surreal collage and story. Includes the above phrase as a caption to one of the images.

e.e. cummings’ library

what do you read? which books do you keep? here, a snapshot of the contents of e.e. cummings’ library, with the entire collection here. (For other collections of dead people, see here.)

Maret’s Eclectic Geometric

By Russell Maret.

Delicious Font

As well as being a chairophile, I am also a bibliophile. {Chairs and books seem to be naturally complementary addictions.} Consequently here is the font Los Niches by Juan Pablo de Gregorio, which has been chosen by Typographica as one of the best fonts of 2007.

On beautiful books

As an occasional (and very amateur) bookbinder, I am awed by the work of the real professionals, these master craftsman bookbinders. Recently, the V&A had a small exhibition, just outside the National Art Library, of commissioned bookbinding work for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. The one above is On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, bound by Peter Jones, a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders. The rest of the books can be found here.