Edmonton Public Library - new library card designs.
NFT Travel guides have an awesome design, great layout and emphasize exploring neighborhoods versus running from one “must-see” spot to another.
They also have a pretty comprehensive website that gives you the option of just downloading PDF’s of specific neighborhoods in cities you may be visiting.
Spotted this cover at a half-price book store yesterday. It’s a compilation of Swiss books from the past 60 years, and I think I have to go back now and get it.
![Award-winning (temporary) library for the University of Amsterdam by Ira Koers and Roelof Mulder. That information desk is awesome.
The library features a “red room” where books can be retrieved by the borrower until midnight every day of the week, plus weekends. The containers hold all borrowed books and are categorized for ease of use.
In their own words:
“Studio roelof mulder and bureay ira koers [wanted] to achieve two important things: a space like the white page of a book where the students themselves would play the main role in determining how it is filled in, and in certain areas a domestic atmosphere where the students could also study informally. in one of the study rooms you will find a number of kitchen tables where you can work in groups under the lamp, a chesterfield couch for reading a newspaper, various sitting areas for a short break and special telephone areas in the hallways between the quiet study rooms. The columns in the canteen are transformed into illuminated trees with low energy light bulbs.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1ndc7AHBV1qa2go5o1_500.jpg)
Award-winning (temporary) library for the University of Amsterdam by Ira Koers and Roelof Mulder. That information desk is awesome.
The library features a “red room” where books can be retrieved by the borrower until midnight every day of the week, plus weekends. The containers hold all borrowed books and are categorized for ease of use.
In their own words:
“Studio roelof mulder and bureay ira koers [wanted] to achieve two important things: a space like the white page of a book where the students themselves would play the main role in determining how it is filled in, and in certain areas a domestic atmosphere where the students could also study informally. in one of the study rooms you will find a number of kitchen tables where you can work in groups under the lamp, a chesterfield couch for reading a newspaper, various sitting areas for a short break and special telephone areas in the hallways between the quiet study rooms. The columns in the canteen are transformed into illuminated trees with low energy light bulbs.”
I want to go there.
“Listening Posts” at New Brighton library, Christchurch, NZ.
Exterior of New Brighton library, Christchurch, NZ.
It’s nice that they let that lone tree stay to shade the library.
These photos are actually from Flickr user Canterbury Heritage. The Christchurch library website photos could use an update, as the same fantastic “listening posts” shown above look like this on their website:
Not quite the same impression.
I love this book cover design
From the linear transition to the atmosphere & stratigraphy of the land - it is perfect!
And the contents within - modern cartography! Splendid visuals! Fun facts! As a former geology student, I couldn’t ask for more.
Design by Kelly Blair - found here.
The Heads of State
Icon design for the NYPL “Learning at the Library” K-12 education program.
View more work on their website.
They also just came out with a line a travel posters:
Awesome. Here.
