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instagram: Mixing Fantasy and Reality in Aracataca, Colombia For more on life in Aracataca and Gabriel García Márquez, explore the Aracataca location page. Aracataca, Colombia, is a place where reality and fantasy seem to blend. Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez was born here, and it was the inspiration of Macondo, the fictional town in…
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instagram: Mixing Fantasy and Reality in Aracataca, Colombia For more on life in Aracataca and Gabriel García Márquez, explore the Aracataca location page. Aracataca, Colombia, is a place where reality and fantasy seem to blend. Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez was born here, and it was the inspiration of Macondo, the fictional town in…
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bookporn: detroitlib: Happy Birthday Frederic Goudy!! March 8, 1865-May 11, 1947. Mr. Goudy was a self taught typographer and printer. During his career he developed over 100 typefaces. His most famous being Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style. From our stacks: The Alphabet. Fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations…
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bookporn: detroitlib: Happy Birthday Frederic Goudy!! March 8, 1865-May 11, 1947. Mr. Goudy was a self taught typographer and printer. During his career he developed over 100 typefaces. His most famous being Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style. From our stacks: The Alphabet. Fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations…
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The executives spent most of the meeting touting the evolving market, namely how their newfound allegiance to digital learning materials—rather than old-school physical textbooks—would place them at the forefront of the new wave of education technology. Rhetoric describing the company’s unmatched innovation pervaded the hour-long meeting; they raved about the company’s across-the-board shift to digital,…
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Doris Salcedo | MCA Chicago
Doris Salcedo | MCA Chicago theoffingmag: Editor of the The Offing’s Dead Letter Office, Leslie Parry, speaks to her current obsession with the first retrospective of Doris Salcedo’s art. I can’t stop thinking about the Doris Salcedo retrospective at the MCA. Salcedo, a native of Colombia, creates sculptures from everyday materials: wood, cement, grass, furniture,…
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That’s when intimacy entered the picture. I suggested that it’s kind of strange to hear Caballero—a person whose previous games have preached empathy, emotional intimacy, and understanding—rally behind habits that effectively cut him off from the rest of the world. I found it doubly strange because Caballero is such a warm, personable person. He grins…
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austinkleon: ED EMBERLEY by Ed Emberley, Todd Oldham, and Caleb Neelon This is a lovely monograph of Ed Emberley’s 100+ book career. Starts with a great introductory essay by Neelon, who explains in one paragraph what makes Emberley so great: Includes stuff from Ed’s famous drawing books: But also lesser-known work, like his terrific woodcut-based…