The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.” Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext(e) https://www.semiotexte.com/politics-of-the-very-worst

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New Book ‘Bali Flyers’ presents over 130 pages of rave and event flyers collected in Bali, Indonesia between 1985 and 2002. ↪️ lockbooks net

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a present for my daughter’s birthday… [original title: “Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism”]

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Pierre Soulages

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Magic Squares & Cubes - W.S Andrews [1960] I think this book is already in /the-library

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"Output – An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023" (Edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, 2024) . "An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT."

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Last week was special because we received the prototype of our First Issue of SeekeR And we're SHOCKED by the print quality !!! It's a prototype. It still needs cutting, laminating, binding, etc. But this preview makes us more than confident in the level of piece we want to present 📖 🖼️

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Drawing with Computers, by Mark Wilson, 1985 Magnificently organized book on early computer graphics by plotter legend Mark Wilson. Images and link below.

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Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code, by Daniel Temkin (foreword by Allison Parrish) Now out on MIT Press. See also Daniel's "esoteric codes" blog. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/

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Print Punch: Artefacts From The Punch Card Era - by Steven E Jones, Sandra Rendgen and John L Walters "Print Punch returns to the heyday of the punch card — to a time when you could touch (and punch) data. The aesthetics of this early move towards automation represent a unique moment in our history, when we designed for machines instead of human beings. Rigorous constraints, inherent in punch card technology, unwittingly birthed a coherent design language: rhythm in grids, punched absences and presences, and the patterns in them dancing to their own machine logic." 208 pages Laser cut hardback 240x310mm Limited to 700 copies ISBN: 9781916412132 https://patrickfry.co.uk/printpunch

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If you are in Amsterdam, NL, between early October and early November and are into type design and graphic design, don't miss this exhibition by ENTER ENTER bookstore: E V E R T B L O E M S M A , T Y P E A N D I D E A S 3 October — 2 November 2025 Opening: Friday 3 October, 6–8 pm Finissage: Sunday 2 November, 6–8 pm Opening hours: Friday + Saturday 1–5 pm and by appointment  https://enter-enter.nl/ — Evert Bloemsma (1958-2005) was ‘one of a kind’ type designer. He is still regarded by his peers as a pioneer and innovative thinker, as evidenced by his own writings and his activities as an educator and photographer. The time has come to reassess his contributions to his professional field, in the context of a major technological shift from analog to digital typography between the 1980s and 2000s. Twenty years after his untimely death, his work is now ready to be rediscovered by a new generation of type and graphic designers. This exhibition is the first result of a six-year preliminary research phase, which involved collecting and creating original archives from documents and interviews conducted in three countries with Bloemsma's relatives and colleagues. A monograph is planned for publication in 2027.

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The Internet Phonebook : "An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators." https://internetphonebook.net/ Not the usual art book, but still, probably a good book to have. I just ordered mine as I missed the first sale :-)

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'Forty-Four Esolangs' -- an impressive collection of Daniel Temkin’s many approaches to esoteric programming languages danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/ Img: 'Entropy' - A language where data decays the more it's used; the programmer has a short time to get their point across to the user before the program fades into entropy. Paperback September 23, 2025 The MIT Press 136 pp., 6 x 9 in, 19 b&w illus.

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