Michael Bierut with a team of designers at Pentagram collaborate with other graphic designers, artists and architects to help beautify the elementary school libraries in New York City's five boroughs. The expansive L!brary Initiative includes 5 newly built libraries in the Bronx, featuring murals by Rafael Esquer, Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister and Yuko Shimizu, and Charles Wilkin.
I first read about this inspiring, fantastic, beautiful project in the New York Times last week in an article titled, A Is for Artwork That Lures Bronx Schoolchildren to New Libraries.
(credits for the murals seen above: top mural is by Christoph Niemann for P.S. 69 in the Bronx, bottom mural is by Maira Kalman for P.S. 47 in the Bronx).
I'm really looking forward to Director Spike Jonze's live action film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book Where the Wild Things Are. (the screenplay is written by Dave Eggers)
The official movie trailer is going to air as a preview for DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens (in theaters March 27th, 2009).
A preliminary trailer leaked last month on the web, and later came with a disclaimer from the director that it was premature.
(film poster found via slash film via Nick magazine)
Leanne Shapton illustrates a few favorite books authors are taking to dinner in the Sketchbook section of this week's New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Chronicle Books has just published a reissue of Ann & Paul Rand's children's book I Know a lot of Things (c. 1956)
Link: I Know a Lot of Things by Ann Rand, illustrated by Paul Rand
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About Me:
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everything but what I should be doing. - Listening to:
pandora - Reading:
"Perfection" by Julie Metz - Watching:
old episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
