And in tonight’s latest installment of Poor Font Choices…
Category: ConserveThis! Archive
This is an archive of posts from both my old blogs (Digital Cellulose, Chartex project) and my current Tumblr blog, Conserve This!
Just a little light reading on a work night… I’m reading “The Book” by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
Iconic images reimagined in embroidery and jelly beans, as seen at the state fair.
Fancy book butts!
Edge decoration and marbled endpapers on an 18th century French binding.
More paste paper found on one of our library books. Red, black, and gold paint that’s still shiny!
Somebody on my campus is a ceramist with a sense of humor. They made a vase to fill an empty niche where a pay phone once lived.
This book was the victim of both a bookworm and a librarian, who put cellophane tape over the bookworm’s holes many years ago.
Really digging the typography on this book’s cover. That intertwining C and S!
Is occult sciences something they still offer in library school these days? Always wanted to take that class but I couldn’t fit it in with all my conservation classes.