Shelf life, reimagined.
For you modern design book
lovers out there, you may already have a creative design strategy for book
storage. If not, a new book just
published this month may offer some quirky, unique, and very modern ideas. (Yes, we are getting very meta today: a book about storing
books.) Alex Johnson, a writer for
Britain’s Independent newspaper,
began blogging on the subject a few years ago, which eventually led to Bookshelf, featured on
NPR’s Picture Show Blog
a few weeks ago.
With iPads and Kindles and other e-devices exploding in
popularity, many people have moved away from reading actual books. While digital versions are certainly
lighter and more compact—and therefore great for travel—we really love paper
pages and well-designed covers and being able to fold corners and write in
margins.
Call us stuffy and old-fashioned, but we love books. And thanks to Johnson’s extensive
research, now we can organize those books that define us in a beautiful, modern
way—and breathe new life into an art often deemed archaic. Check out the slideshow, because the
designs are really quite inspired: from Moroccan mosaics to Pacman, Chilean
tree branches to a rope bridge, the images give just a glimpse at the
creativity collected inside Bookshelf.
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