As Jessica spent some time scouring her library, she says:
Sometimes, I open these books and that smell of summer, of old paper, comes back to me and I had this Proustian moment of being in the library as a kid in the summertime taking out my book or bringing back a book and what it smelled like when they stamped it in the back. I have such a visceral, totemic feeling about those books and those volumes.
Also mentioned this week:
- Michael’s selections; Jessica’s selections
- Talking Covers, Vintage Contemporaries, Lorraine Louie
- Tim Kreider, New York Times, The World According to Mad Magazine
- Wired, By Dying, Mad Gets Its Best Shot At A Second Life
- Steven Heller, Design Observer, Don Wall: Brave New Book Design
- Getty Design Center, Schlemmer's The Triadic Ballet
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