Tom Cox, Guardian, 30 March 2012

Tom Cox's bookshelves were less about him than about a stranger he subconsciously imagined would one day visit his house – and so began the great sort

"Thoughts Toward a Symposium (May 3-4, 2012)"

This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What shape will books of the future take? Grounded in this technology’s history, we will reflect critically on possible futures, promises, and challenges of the book, showcasing practices by writers and artists, putting them in conversation with scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines who are framing discourse and questions about book-related technotexts.

Recipe book for decorated paper
Germany, late nineteenth century. Paper, 132 leaves, 179 x 112 mm. With samples. PC Des 3, fol. 73v-74r
via: http://simongoode.tumblr.com/

Robert Darnton, John Palfrey
March 2, 2012 - 3:00pm
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

on book design, by The Gentle Author

flickr set, to exhibition January 17 - February 19, 2012
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School

Artists: Steven Daiber, Pati Scobey, Barbara Tetenbaum, Wilber H. Schilling, Kathy Kuehn, Julie Chen
Curated by Ruth Roger, Curator of Special Collections, Wellesley College

via http://briandettmer.com/

google books

Damien Walker, Guardian, 15 February 2012

author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010)

printmaking miscellany

"an augmented-reality book of poems" by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse.

brain on holiday.
Created by Joseph Herscher, a kinetic artist from New Zealand.
like the important role played by the laptop computer.

see reviews/interviews.

Boston Athenaeum, October 12, 2011 - March 3, 2012
includes works by Russell Maret, Laura Davidson, Ryoko Adachi, Stephen Dupont, Harriet Bart, Xu Bing, Iliazd, and more than two dozen others.