We've been brainstorming with a potential client on a book project, and while doing some research, I came across this interesting video from IDEO:

See the whole teaser on book's site, which is quite nice and minimal.

Thanks to Coolhunting for pointing out an interesting new book "Cartographies of Time", by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, which "dissect[s] and track[s] the methods people used when attempting to record the passage of time."

Some examples:

"Relying on symbolism rather than scholastic precision to recreate a moment in time, Johannes Buno helped redesign and redefine the timeline."

Katie Lewis, 201 Days (2007).

"Lewis used pushpins to represent significant 'sense events' and connected them together with red thread. The result is a precise yet jumbled representation of Lewis' bodily experiences. "

Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you’ll get a sense of François Blanciak's marvelously inventive new book, Siteless: 1001 Building Forms (The MIT Press, 2008).

Blanciak, a French architect who has worked alongside Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and the Danish provocateur Bjarke Ingels, now lives in Japan, where he is a research fellow at the University of Tokyo. In Siteless, his first book, he displays an equal gift for playfulness and rigor, drawing by hand 1,001 building types—fanciful and sometimes impossible—with no thought paid to site, program, or budget.

Read more at Metropolis.

Behold Werner Design Werks' nifty recent release: Alphabeasties: and other Amazing Types, a children's book featuring animals crafted out of typefaces: an alligator set in Volta EF, a dachshund made out of "d"s set in Bauhaus, and so on.

Grain edit (whose post tipped us off) appropriately notes resonances with Bruno Munari's Alfabetiere.

You can buy Alphabeasties at Red Balloon Bookshop.

There's a new book forthcoming about glitch art and aesthetics, and it looks promising. The editors have made some high resolution plates from the book available for download -- I recommend checking them out (22mb ZIP format).