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Are you a fan of print design?  Then THIS is the blog for you!  I love how thorough they are about giving statistics about paper stock, sizing, and printing process.  Link.

So there’s a book out there called Pictorial Websters. To put it simply, it’s a book of artwork from the engravings of Websters from the 1800’s. In other words, a look into the past. But as this video shows, it’s really a work of love and art. If you’re a book designer, print designer, print maker, book binder, or just like cool shit, you’ll be entranced in this video about it’s 10-year creation as I have been.

Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all design geeks here. Well maybe not “all” but at least “the ones who bother to read the posts that go under the comics sometimes”. A while back there was a blog that started making the rounds called Letters of Note that showed famous letters from history in their original form, on their original letterhead. This is like that site, but without all that historical content gobbletygook in the middle. It’s just the letterhead paper itself without all that crap on it bogging down the designy awesomeness (or sometimes unawesomeness, find the Scientologist letterhead). LINK.

Sidenote: It’s funny how sites like this spread. I’ve seen it on VSL, Kottke, and Daily Heller in the last few days. Not to mention all over The Twitters. If you ever spot something awesome, let me know somehow (systemcomic at gmail, comment on the site, Twitter, etc). Some day maybe I’ll post something first instead of last.

Thanks to Systemic Christina for the link.  And it’s even a steampunk book cover! Via BoingBoing. LINK »