
Jay-Z's got a new book coming out called Decoded. To launch it the pages have been hidden in significant locations around NYC. This blur between on and offline will build hype and interest around the book. It's also a great way to give fans a little taster of the contents of the book itself.
http://bing.decodejay-z.com/?fbid=2VkFxa909e7&wom=false
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Bing decodes JayZ
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Labels: Books, Digital, gaming, innovation, music
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Illuminated Bookmark

Lightleafs is an illuminated OLED bookmark concept designd by designer Valentina Trimani that provides a light source for reading in the dark. The Lightleaf is as thin as a page in a book and runs wirelessly, allowing you to take it everywhere your favorite literature goes. This incredible bookmark is even rechargeable with a brightness control to turn it down so that it won’t disturb others nearby.
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Labels: Books, innovation, Invention, products
Monday, 17 May 2010
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Point the finger
Nice little book mark idea that has a hand with a movable pointing finger so that you never lose where you read up to (because that can be really annoying and waste precious seconds)

By 25 To Go - check their other nice product ideas.
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Labels: Books, innovation, products
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Clever / fraud
Conceptual artist, Michael Marcovici, collected the credit card data of 100 people online and sent them his new book...
Read all about it here - especially the results of the project. Cool.
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009
It's Nice That
We regularly check the neat design blog that is 'It's Nice That'. And you should too
The guys behind it have also just released a bi-annual book featuring more of the same kind of stuff and it is well worth checking out.
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Labels: blog, Books, design, Illustration
Friday, 23 January 2009
Spineless

This ia great idea - create icons by wrapping the spines of books. Not something I could ever be bothered to do, but looks great. If you speak foreign, read more here 

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Wednesday, 16 April 2008
The future of books
Kyle Bean made this cool art piece called 'the future of books' from an old charity shop book.
Some nice other bits on his site too.
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Labels: Books, Craft, Street art