Ben Casnocha: My Startup Life

Posted on May 29, 2007 Under Books

My friend Ben Casnocha is off and running with his first of what I expect will be many books. The book is called My Startup Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley, and while…

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Atelier Machado Notebooks

Posted on May 25, 2007 Under Books

I'm an enthusiastic user of Moleskine notebooks because they're high quality, but now that everyone and their mother has one now, I'm always getting paranoid about my roommates mistaking mine for theirs if I ever accidentally leave it laying around…

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Border Film Project Update

Posted on May 16, 2007 Under Books

Last March, we told you about the Border Film Project, which distributed some 400+ disposable cameras to undocumented migrants and the border minutemen attempting to end their passage from Mexico into America. The cameras have now been collected, the photographs…

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Moleskine City Notebooks

Posted on April 24, 2007 Under Books

The newest from Moleskin, the City Notebooks are part guidebook, part journal; they have helpful maps, begging-to-be-used blank pages, and easy to navigate tabs. At this point, they cover a good number of European cities, as well as Boston, New…

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The 1000 Journals Project

Posted on April 9, 2007 Under Books

The 1000 Journals Project, an absorbing experiment in creative collaboration that traced 1000 journals throughout their extensive travels, has finally reached some sort of culmination (though the project itself still lives on) in the form of a very good-looking and…

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Peace: 100 Ideas

Posted on March 26, 2007 Under Books

Peace: 100 Ideas is a collaborative book project put together by Chen Design that juxtaposes 100 illustrations next to 100 ideas for achieving a more peaceful world. The book is printed on 100% post-consumer recycled, elemental chlorine-free paper using soy-based…

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One to One: That's a Lot of Tickets!

Posted on March 22, 2007 Under Books

I'm really excited to get my hands on a copy of One to One, a new book by Tanja Backe that may well be the ticket. Literally actually-- the book is an international collection of tickets (over 1,600 of them)…

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Logology: The Wonderland of Logo Design

Posted on February 22, 2007 Under Books

Logology, the latest title from the folks at Victionary, was just announced. The 288 page leather-bound book is packed full of both case studies and literally dozens upon dozens of examples of breathtaking identity design solutions from graphic designers around…

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Lomography Notebook

Posted on February 22, 2007 Under Books

Lomography is a photography term: it's the casual, snap-shot method of taking photos used to document daily life. The Lomographic Society International has just released a Lomography Notebook that serves as a great companion to your camera. Even if you…

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D+G Fashion Album

Posted on February 1, 2007 Under Books

In the fashion world, photography is everything. Photos convey the arty and sometimes blurry language of fashion into something seductive and clear to the average eye. The Dolce & Gabbana Fashion Album is a large format (heavy) book that documents…

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