Posted in Books, tagged Espresso book machine, Jason Epstein, print on demand on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m not used to speak about new technologies in printing, it’s not my field and I’m not an expert. But today I read something which astonished me.
Watch this:
This machine can give you the choice between 400000 titles (they will bcome one million….) and it can print your book in five minutes. [...]
Posted in Books, tagged ABC3D, Bruits, Editions Thierry Magner, graphic design, lettering, Marion Bataille on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some months ago, I was surprised by the video of the book “ABC3D”, posted on youtube to present the book by Marion Bataille, a French graphic designer who dedicated her talent to make an alphabet-pop up book that became one of the most popular (you can see the video here).
Today I would like to show [...]
Posted in Books, tagged Anna et Froga, Anouk Ricard, Éditions Sarbacane, bandes dessinées on March 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I had many books here to read and during these last weeks I started. The last Frankfurt book Fair had been quite crazy for me, but I found a moment to meet Claire from Éditions Sarbacane, one of mi favourite French publisher. As my boss wasn’t with me (yes!) I had the opportunity to talk [...]
Posted in Books, tagged Albin-Michel Jeunesse, Crüilla, David Gauthier, El viaje de Max, El viatge d'en Max, La Balade de Max, Marie Caudy on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Max’ Travel, originally published in France under the title “La balade de Max”, is a big story -big because of the size and of the contents- of a boy who is dreaming about going away and find Spring instead of the cold Winter that is about to arrive.
With his strange cap he starts a travel [...]
Posted in Books, tagged End papers on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is my first night here in Barcelona after my holidays and, alone at home, I dedicated a couple of hours to my favourite hobby: google. And from a blog to a web page to another and bla bla bla… I found out this interesting project, End Papers, a gallery of images posted by the [...]
Posted in Books, tagged graphic novel, I will destroy you, The blot, Tom Neely on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First of all: thanks to my friend Arnau who gave me this book for my birthday.
Tom Neely is from Los Angeles. “The blot”, his first graphic novel, is the story of a thin and shy man who finds love. A big black ink mark follows him everywhere. When finally he seems to have found happiness, [...]
Posted in Books, tagged Gabriel Pacheco, Ivo Rosati, L'uomo d'acqua, The water man, Zoolibri on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m back! Yes, so much time… I went on holidays: I had to change my house; and finally my mac got broken and I had to buy a new one. So I had the blog abandoned, but I bought so many books and I’ve so many things to tell you…
Here with my first review: “The [...]
Posted in Books, tagged catalan publishing house, editorial bruguera, seasons of the year on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The disappeared catalan publisher Bruguera was one of the first imprint in Spain dedicated to children’s and young comics. Not all the books were beautiful and the quality was not so good if compared with what was happening all over the world, but it had been smart to find this little book dedicated to spring.
I [...]
Posted in Books, tagged american illustration, bill rutherford, bonnie rutherford, children's book, golden books, golden press, the gingerbread man on May 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday I found an old copy of “The gingerbread man”, illustrated by Bonnie and Bill Rutherford. The book was on the ground, in the second hand market; it was like love at first sight.
This edition by Golden Press is from 1976. The owner of the book was Adriana: I can still read the dedication. The [...]
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