“A thing is not beautiful because it is beautiful, as the he-frog said to the she-frog, it is beautiful because one likes it.” - Bruno MunariTumblr (3.0; @amperesand)http://amperesand.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l87nn3jXQ51qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Now found <a href="http://dogmatika.tumblr.com/">here</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/5415014926http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/5415014926Thu, 12 May 2011 02:18:04 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfcj6Plmk1qae6kbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://grainedit.com/2011/04/26/eric-ellis/#more-5385">Eric Ellis</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/5067447265http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/5067447265Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:00:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfe13XMV81qae6kbo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2011/apr/26/ex-libris-bookplates-in-pictures">The art of bookplates</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/5045643771http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/5045643771Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:00:38 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljfk18Nww11qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.pbelger.com/1166236/Scandal-in-the-Classics">Phil Belger</a> reinterprets the classics as tabloid headlines [via <a href="http://aqua-velvet.com/2011/04/phil-belger-design/">Aqua Velvet</a>]</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/4490630785http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/4490630785Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:36:44 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljfjrh9Thd1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Alfred Hitchcock</strong>’s head in a refrigerator [via <a href="http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/alfred_hitchcocks_head_in_a_refrigerator/">Dangerous Minds</a>]</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/4490565190http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/4490565190Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:30:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljfjdvhv971qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Matt Roeser reads books & designs <a href="http://newcover.tumblr.com/">new covers</a> for them.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/4490474737http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/4490474737Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:22:43 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_levnvir2Gj1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.casualoptimist.com/2011/01/10/q-a-with-john-gall/">The Casual Optimist</a> interviews <a href="http://johngall.blogspot.com/">book designer</a> & collage artist <strong>John Gall</strong>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2702470596http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2702470596Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:33:18 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ler05oSUWU1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><a href="http://cargocollective.com/thirtythreepointthree">33.3</a></em>, an art show of album covers reimagined & reinterpreted by artists & designers. Pictured, <a href="http://www.kolbisneat.com/">Andrew Kolb</a>’s remake of the Beach Boys’ <em>Pet Sounds</em> [via <a href="http://blog.drawn.ca/post/2595896312/andrew-kolbs-interpretation-of-the-beach-boys">Drawn</a>]</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2665724273http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2665724273Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:10:36 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leq1amOaPl1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A <strong>Roy Kuhlman</strong> cover on<a href="http://bookworship.com/"> Book Worship</a>, Shawn Hazen’s blog on <em>“graphically interesting, but otherwise uncollectible”</em> vintage books. More <a href="http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/496301439/roy-kuhlman-the-grove-press-covers">Kuhlman</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2665651766http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2665651766Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:01:19 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leq0ipONhP1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.momentofmoore.com/">A Moment of Moore</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2655949804http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2655949804Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:20:49 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leq0feMOR01qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Beardsley / Jonathan Burton & Douglas Adams / Whisky Priest Books / Garth Williams / Surrealism in the Pre-School Years / Alexander Korzer-Robinson / <em>Le Livre de Sante</em> / Stereo Stack / Bossa Nova & the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s / <a href="http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/amperes-and-131/">ampere’s and</a>, my fortnightly column for <em>3:AM Magazine</em>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2655923441http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2655923441Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:18:50 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le1i870DX01qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://trendland.net/2010/12/23/andreas-gursky-photography/">Andreas Gursky</a>’s “visual structures or systems.”</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2469385799http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2469385799Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:43:19 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le1f6l4mLO1qae6kbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="https://dhs.stanford.edu/creeley00/">Digital maps</a> of <strong>Robert Creeley</strong>’s email [via <a href="http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/12/talking-with-anne-waldman-from-larynx.html">Silliman’s Blog</a>]</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2468974916http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2468974916Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:37:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le1dfnsgTe1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Vintage cigarette cards at <a href="http://passportstation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cigarette%20Cards">LOWEREAST</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2468755400http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2468755400Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:59:47 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le1db585X41qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>David Richardson’s artwork for Marcel Proust / Bill Watterson / Yoshitomo Nara / Melville House’s International Crime Series / Alvin Lustig / Never Judge…? / David Shrigley / Mahendra Singh / <a href="http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/amperes-and-130/">ampere’s and</a>, my fortnightly column for <em>3:AM Magazine</em>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2468740333http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2468740333Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:57:05 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lculduVoaM1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-covers.html">Ronald Searle</a>’s book covers for <strong>Henry James</strong>, <strong>Herman Melville</strong> & <strong>Lord Dunsany</strong>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2080709451http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2080709451Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:34:42 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcuirqXzCn1qae6kbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://flavorwire.com/132898/fred-tomasellis-nyt-drawings-highlight-global-issues">Fred Tomaselli’s <em>New York Times</em> drawings</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2080438847http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2080438847Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:38:14 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lctkrvru0U1qae6kbo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/new-pocket-classics-from-whites-books/">White’s Pocket Classics</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2074063141http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2074063141Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:23:54 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lctk3nWamp1qae6kbo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2010/11/actes-noirs.html">Caustic Cover Critic</a> on <a href="http://www.actes-sud.fr/rayon/romans-policiers">Actes Noirs</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2073925346http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2073925346Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:09:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lctju1CjZd1qae6kbo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/78019/the-picture-mostly-charmless-jed-perl-moma">Abstract Expressionist New York</a>.</p>http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2073870402http://amperesand.tumblr.com/post/2073870402Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:03:37 -0500