#book cataloge

[dylanconrique]

TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!

[artistmarchalius]

I wanted to design my own female Alastor for funsies and put her in clothes she might have worn in the mid 1930s. Once I’d drawn one outfit it was hard to stop. Of course I had to turn them into a catalog page!

[aj-artjunkyard]

I’m all for Unreliable Narrator Apollo™ straight up misremembering myths instead of admitting to myself that Rick got a few things wrong

Lester!Apollo: demigods can be so weird and unpredictable! When that Clytemnestra girl murdered her husband simply because he made one tiny little human sacrifice to me… yikes, am I right?

The same Apollo 2,000 years before, sending a 3rd volley of plague arrows straight into the Greek camp: Agamemnon when I get you. When I get you Agamemnon. Agamemnon when I get you

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: "Another worker makes file cards for each book, showing the book's title, author, and other information. The cards for nonfiction books also show the book's library numbers. Then the cards are filed in the library's "card catalog"." From What Happens at the Library by Arthur Shay. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Books, 1971.

[garadinervi]

From: Luca Pitoni, Ostinata bellezza. Anita Klinz, la prima art director italiana, Texts by Mario Piazza, and Leonardo Sonnoli, Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, Milano, 2022 [Photo: © Louis De Belle]

[oldschoolfrp]

Hard at work conjuring some conjurations (Helen Bedford, from AC09: Creature Catalogue for BECMI D&D, TSR, 1986)

[othmeralia]

Uh oh! What happened here? Seems to be that there was a printing error that caused the typeset or page to slip/move while going through the printing press. What a cool find!⁠ ⁠ Found in our copy of Manuel du parfumeur (1825).⁠

[booksinantwerp]

Yohji Yamamoto was born on this day in 1943. Picture is from the AW1988 catalog, photographed by Nick Knight & art direction by Marc Ascoli follow on Instagram for more

[sleepinglionhearts]

Conversations about literature

[spookygibberish]

@july-19th-club HI I just thought I'd respond to these EXTREMELY flattering tags because they were the push I needed to finally get around to listening to the Xenogenesis series. I've been meaning to check out Octavia Butler for a really long time, and after finishing those books I'm actually mad at myself for not getting around to it sooner, because like, holy shit.

Looking at the books I've enjoyed the most out of all the titles I've listened to in the last year, to picking out commonalities and trends, I came up with:

Explorations of speculative societies and cultures

Xenofiction! Inhuman perspectives, inhuman thought processes; monsters, aliens, and animals as perspective characters

Alienation. Relfect the experience of living in a society which is strange to you, persisting, finding value and beauty in a world that is ugly, complicated, and hostile

Body horror, shape-shifting, transhumanism

Surreal imagery and situations

Often violent, often sexual, (frequently both at once...). strongly visceral

Unsurprising preference for sci-fi over fantasy (it's much more prone to high concept strangeness, though on a surface level I like the trappings of fantasy more)

A LOT OF THESE ARE DOWNERS but I noticed there aren't a lot of straightforwardly bleak endings, I guess I can't resist that uncertain glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel... barring what they say about oncoming trains

Given all that it turns out Xenogenesis was baisically laser targeted to appeal to me and I'm incredibly grateful for these tags for nudging me to nudge Butler to the front of my queue.

[dylanconrique]

i hope episode 5 opens with penelope falling out of the carriage, but instead of falling flat on her face she falls into colin's arms. 🥰🥰

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

By the early 20th century, the American Type Foundry (ATF), founded in 1892, had become a type-founding behemoth by absorbing over two dozen type foundries. The Inland Type Foundry, established in St. Louis in 1894, was specifically founded to compete with ATF by the Schraubstadter brothers, whose previous foundry, Central Type Foundry, had been absorbed by ATF in 1892.

Inland produced a broad range of original typefaces, and for a time was quite successful. Most of their original designs were produced before the publication of this 1906 catalog, Specimen Book & Catalog. Inland was unique among foundries in that many of their typefaces were named after their prominent customers, a savvy marketing move. This catalog was produced in loose-leaf form in St. Louis, Chicago, and New York, where they had expanded their business. In the introduction, the Foundry explains:

The printing of a specimen-book requires time, and the Inland Type Foundry produces new faces with such rapidity that a new edition was scarcely off the press until it was, to some extent, obsolete, as one or more faces had been produced while the book was going thru the press. . . . It is therefore a great pleasure that we present our solution of the problem. In this, the first loose-leaf specimen-book, we are enabled to devote ample space to proper display, and at the same time furnish you specimens which are constantly new and up to date.

Inevitably, and perhaps ironically, the Schraubstadters eventually sold Inland to ATF in 1911.

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[britishchick09]

the historical and goty lineup in ag's february 2024 catalog! :D

[detroitlib]

View of the interior of the Franklin Branch Library, Detroit Public Library. Room is furnished with desk, tables, chairs, card catalog and bookshelves. Stamped on back: "Photo by Phil Olsen. #5722. 19219 Greeley. Detroit 3, TW. 1-2455."

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[garadinervi]

From: You can go anywhere – The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50, Edited by Edouard Detaille and Willem van Roij, Designed by Graphic Thought Facility, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, 2022 [Yvon Lambert, Paris. Les presses du réel, Dijon. David Zwirner Books, New York, NY]

[stone-cold-groove]

The Sears Christmas Book - 1954.