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Back-Alley Bookends: Narrow Tokyo City Scenes Bracket Books & Tell Stories

Inspired by the winding, cyberpunk-worthy passageways of modern-day Tokyo, these bookends invert expectations, shaped themselves like books but carved out to reveal city-based ...

Pairing Wine & Literature: Italian ‘Book Bottles’ Wrapped With Short Stories

Curling up with a glass of wine with a story has never been easier thanks to Librottiglia, a project that wraps printed pages around bottles of Italian reds and whites. Each wine is paired ...

Story Dispensers: Street Printers Vend Free Short Stories

If your mobile device runs out of batteries on the streets of Grenoble, simply find one of these machines, specify a desired duration, and receive a free printed short story to read in a park or ...

Animating Van Gogh: World’s First Fully-Painted Feature Film

It is a fantastic endeavor and nearly finished - a movie made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings, all presented in the style and told by the characters of the tale's protagonist: Vincent van ...

Frame-Busting Art: 2D Graffiti Figures Break Free from Walls

Treating abandoned buildings and urban surfaces more like pages in a book than bricks to tag, this street artist brings an illustrator's touch and storyteller's approach to his unique ...

99% Invisible: 7 Episodes of the Best Radio Show on Design

There is no witty wordplay nor shocking truth in our title today, but that is quite by design - we simply did not want risk underselling Roman Mars, the maker of a radio show that covers ...

Static Flip Books: 360-Degree Scenes in Panoramic Pages

Like a flip book, there is no text, and each page of these volumes contains a slightly different scene. Except instead of paging through them rapidly to reveal the story, the 'reader' unfolds the ...

Structural Humorist: ‘Coffee With an Architect’ is Hilarious

He begins: "I started this site as a way to reach out to people in the community. I thought that a virtual a cup of coffee would be a low pressure way to meet and discuss our shared ...

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