This book cover is actually entirely digital, which bums me out a little because I would love to track down the nonexistent original and run my fingers over it. Texture and layers, how I love thee!

The colors are fantastic, the textures of the papers are fantastic, the edges and patterns created within each layer are fantastic, and yes, the typography… mmmm! faantastic!

Created by Carlo Giovani. See more at his site.

via I love typography

“He looked up at the sky, which was covered by a thick layer of stratus clouds that moved slowly across the landscape. He couldn’t remember the last time he had seen the sun. Then, to the south, a small hole opened up in the cloud and a beam of light split to earth, warm and welcoming after the prolonged winter and dismal spring. The pool of bright sunlight fell to earth two fields away, startling some sheep who had forgotten they possessed shadows. Then the hole closed again, and soft, directionless light once more settled on the earth.”

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, p331

Erik Spiekermann has a bookshelf. A two-story bookshelf. And you browse this delicious spread of books by a “remote-controlled mountaineer’s harness.” Drool!!

Dwell via Swiss Miss

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything.

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg