Just in from the Midnight Morning book launch and exhibition opening, featuring the work of Matt Huynh, Haline Ly, and Will Loeng, at 12 O'Connell Street in Newtown. It's an interesting space, by the way, as I hope the photos I took will show a little. Also good to be back in Newtown, it must ... Read full entry

I guess we all have a "rude waiter" story, but of course we only know the half of it. A book due for publication soon, written by a waiter who blogs under the non de plume The Waiter, will doubtless have a number of "rude customer" tales to tell. According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining ... Read full entry

Join Matt Huynh (whose work I profiled at OnVoiceOver about a year ago), Haline Ly, and Will Loeng for the launch of their collaborative book, Midnight Morning, from 6pm, 17 July 2008 in Newtown, Sydney. Midnight Morning is a love letter in pictures to the precarious moments teetering between yesterday and tomorrow that presents itself simultaneously as first, second and final chances for finding new ... Read full entry

One Leg Leads to Another A collection of book and magazine covers, and movie posters, featuring the use of the "A-Frame" spread-leg stance. The human leg has evolved continually over many eons, adapting from an underwater propeller to its current form. But on book covers and on film and theater posters, the leg has evolved very little. In fact, the "A-Frame," a cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device, is the most frequently copied trope ... Read full entry

NSFW Gallery: Sex Science From Da Vinci to MRIs While the images in this article, taken from Mary Roach's new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, aren't especially NSFW, the subject matter could be considered sensitive... In Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, author Mary Roach travels through the history of sex research, exploring centuries of theories about why things go right ... Read full entry

Interview with Melbourne "Book sculptor" Nicholas Jones, at The Design Files. You have to see his work to believe it :) I would describe my artistic style as book sculpture, although it has been referred to as altered book making, book surgery and other things. It has developed very organically over time. I have let the ideas come out very naturally, rather than using too much force. I make work ... Read full entry

Design Dictionary Would you judge a book by its cover? In this case, yes, I would :)

For sheer stupidity, this has to top talking on a mobile phone (sans hands free kit), or sending text messages, while driving a car in peak-hour commuter traffic: reading a book. Yep, while driving a car. That's exactly what I saw when travelling into the city for a meeting earlier this morning. Must have been a great book. "Page turning suspense, I just couldn't put it down..."

Sydney Fashion designer and artist Lang Leav has just released her latest book Quaint Little Rhymes. Quaint Little Rhymes is a beautifully presented cloth bound hardcover book, painstakingly hand made by Akina artist Lang Leav. Themed around Valentines Day, the book features little rhymes and illustrations inspired by love and misadventure. Quaint Little Rhymes is a follow up to The Teddy Bear's Picnic Storybook which sold out within 3 ... Read full entry

Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. Guidance for just the sort of thing all web developers thrive on: the challenge of "web standardising" large, intricate, websites. So the book starts with the challenges a Web team might encounter while making the switch to a "Web Standards" - based Web development approach. If you don't know what that means, then you are probably not the intended audience for ... Read full entry