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Designer Profile:
Peter Mendelsund

By Stefan | Published: 03/03/2009
A version of this article formatted in sexy full-color PDF is available here. A cover (or jacket) is a token for remembering a book: after its initial task of enticing a consumer, it will be opened, closed, looked at and handled dozens of times. After the sale, matters are in the reader’s hands, and a gawking [...]
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Put your glasses on: iconic drinkware around the world

By Stefan | Published: 12/02/2009
“Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time,” said Kurt Vonnegut in a 1970s Paris Review interview. It’s true, most of us have to drink water, and we must do so wherever we go. Last week a CouchSurfer from Tijuana came to stay with me, and [...]
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