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Grow Your Own Cows

Reb Williams wants to know if he should publish his book... and wants you to vote!

"I was three when my father quit his job at a London ad agency to chase the 70s self-sufficiency dream. Family legend has it he had his midlife-crisis moment in a railway station WH Smith. He read a book about green economics and came home ready to sell up and leave the rat race straight away. 

I first knew my mum and dad had become ecofreaks when I ended up on the front page of the Observer in a gigantic pile of recycling.

They’d gone to a Friends of the Earth rally along with “a cheerful group of young people” (the Observer’s words) to highlight the amount of paper London wasted every day. It was 1974, and I was a cute, obedient three year old with blonde hair. A journalist spotted a photo-opportunity and asked if he could snap me on top of the pile, so my parents chivvied me up it."

 How wonderful - I voted YES!

Via: Stephen Barton

crEATe

This book looks brilliant.   crEATe is based upon research by trend analysts from the London firm The Future Laboratory. investigates recent trends and visual developments in and around food. The book examines everything from the way we eat, the interiors and furniture of innovative restaurants and shops, industrial design and the packaging of food to branding and consumerism.

The Happy Minimalist

Charmed by this book!

The Unbook

Watch David Gray's presentation on the Unbook, a process being defined by Jay Cross.

Community Site for Writers....

authonomy is a brand new community site for writers, readers and publishers, conceived and developed by book editors at HarperCollins. Looks fantastic!

Funny

Via - Osocio

Book Design

Fully Booked presents a choice selection of artist books. Created by hand and printed in limited editions, these publications push the boundaries of conventional book design.

It presents material from printed publications that succeed in striking a crucial balance – between the market’s demands for availability, legibility and durability on the one hand and sophisticated visual and content design on the other. By featuring projects in this experimental field that combine enormous creativity with skilled craftsmanship, Fully Booked also reveals trends in today’s graphic design.

Looks fantastic.

Get London Reading

Get London Reading is a campaign to um.... get London reading. They produced a great site with a Rough Guide to London by the book , which you can download for free, and a really useful interactive online map.

There was also a brilliant graffiti campaign across London in April, which included quotes from books stencilled all over the place. Lots more pics here on flickr. Really beautiful...

Via One Floor Up: A wonderful new find.

The Me And My Big Mouth Booker vote

Me and My Big Mouth are running a Booker Prize Poll- More detail HERE

more at twiigs.com...

Blank Board Books

I am ordering some of these. I am thinking they may be fantastic for concept work.

Richard's Crowdsourcing Entry

Richard Weston, author of much admired typography blog Acejet 170 has submitted this beautiful entry for the cover of the new book Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe, editor of WIRED.

The book hopes to generate an impact comparable to similar genre bestsellers The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Richard's entry is doing rather well on the voting :) You can rate the entries yourself here