Category Archives: USA

A Love Letter to the City

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

Here in the Philadelphia area, Stephen Powers’ large-scale murals have been a colorful, entertaining and surprising presence since the 1990s. Although he’s currently based in Brooklyn, Powers has been spreading his personal brand of typographic signage murals around South America, … Continue reading →

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Sacred Geometry at the Beach

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

H/T to loyal TBTP follower Aubrie Rudnick for this post. With commonplace leaf rakes and rope, San Francisco artist Andres Amador creates extraordinary temporary masterpieces on the beaches of California and Mexico. Even though it takes hours to form the enormous … Continue reading →

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Reading Roadtrip

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

Celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, Vroman’s in Pasadena is Southern California’s oldest and largest independent bookstore. The popular bookshop recently installed a clever display called “Read your way across the USA”. The shelf display presents books that are set in … Continue reading →

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Best Joe in NYC

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

H/t to Nimal Banerjee of Butterfruit Labs for this fun map of the best coffeehouses in Manhattan by subway stop.

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You talkin’ to me ?

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

This terrific video is a cinematic love letter to America’s greatest city and America’s greatest filmmaker. Robert Kolodny took clips from 14 of Martin Scorsese’s films—After Hours, Bring Out the Dead, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, King of Comedy, Mean … Continue reading →

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This Is Not A Map

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

Poetry Wanted is a tiny Paris-based publisher with a somewhat incongruous focus on photography. Last year the company founder, photographer Rémi Noël launched a project called “This Is Not A Map”, which produces a publication that looks like a map … Continue reading →

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The Allure of Old Books ( & maps )

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

The Peculiar Underworld of Rare-Book Thieves The Allure of the Map What is the oldest book in the world? The Library of Congress by the numbers. What happens when Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Vaticana collude?

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Craving Cartographic Clarity

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

designing metropolitan subway system maps to make them easily understood for both locals and visitors is a challenge for any graphic designer or cartographer. It’s equally challenging to create city transit maps that reflect a municipal identity. Zero Per Zero, … Continue reading →

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Books I Love

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

Books I Love is a new social networking app for book lovers that allows readers to share their reading suggestions and critiques digitally with social contacts . The free iOS app lets users both send and receive book recommendations individually … Continue reading →

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Creepy, Crawly Indeed

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

London-based book cover designer Jamie Keenan has created a terrific cover for a new paperback edition of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella Metamorphosis. This version, based on a completely new translation by Susan Berofsky, has just been released by W W … Continue reading →

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