AUDIO (archived)
Butterfly thinking
If my first glance of the morning was for the sun, my first thought was for the butterflies it would engender.
— Vladimir Nabokov
What does it mean to "think effectively" and why do we view the world through rectangles? Show notes: The Libro Illegibile (Unreadable Book) by Bruno Munari and those Ellezi Klipi staplers. The image for this episode is not the Starry Night Cracker, I mentioned, but a sketch I made of a black swallowtail. Also included: Marcel Proust, Kenya Hara, and Virginia Woolf.
spark joy podcast
A conversation with the Spark Joy podcast about the book as an object, haptic design, Tsundoku, book recommendations, discarding dust jackets, and what it means to live with books late into the print era.
THE BOOK, UNFOLDED (PART 1)
The form of the book in the 21st century, originally published in
Amphora Magazine, No. 178
I don’t think it’s cool to spend the present anticipating the future.— Kenya Hara, ‘Books as Information Sculpture’, Designing Design