RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • it8bit: The Chip: 8-Bit Typography Created by Gabriel Figueiredo Font available for download at fontstruct behance || Tumblr || Twitter

  • becoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually…

    becoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually… ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually mostly in favour of large personal book collections. I have several hundred books on my shelves and another 200-odd at my parents’ house that I could reclaim if I wanted to. the house I grew…

  • As independent bookstores crash and burn in the United States and Britain, the book market in France is doing just fine. France boasts 2,500 bookstores, and for every neighborhood bookstore that closes, another seems to open. From 2003 to 2011 book sales in France increased by 6.5 percent. The French Still Flock to Bookstores (via…

  • Underpaid Genius: The World Is Burning

    Underpaid Genius: The World Is Burning underpaidgenius: Bill McKibben says very well what a great number of climate observers are saying: the world is burning. While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles – Bill McKibben via the Guardian You ever wonder what global warming is going to look like? In its early stages, exactly like this. …

  • Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and…

  • Academic publishing

    barthel: I am trying to get electronic access to an article from 1990. I cannot do so. This is normal. Except it’s ridiculous. Why? Because the article was published in the journal I currently work for. I can’t even get to it through the backend. 

  • notational: oeste: latimes: Little Free Library brings neighbors together through books: A nationwide movement, Little Free Library prompts bibliophiles to put up small shelved structures outside their homes where people can take books and leave some too. The result can be conversation, friendship and a sense of community. In the half a year that Beggs’…

  • In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was…

  • In order to save the books, they had to threaten to burn them. At least, that’s the story told by Leo Burnett Worldwide, a Michigan advertising company that just won nine awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The kudos were for a P.R. campaign on behalf of the Troy, Mich., public library.…

  • artlistpro: Grupa TOK performance, Serbia ‘73  Public performance art, using protest signs with minimal patterns. More photos here via prostheticknowledge: