Recently, our Youth Services department held a bookmark contest, and four lucky winners are getting their designs made into bookmarks shortly.

I was just about to upload a bunch of old photographs from the Chandler Pavilion construction from 2004, and was hit with pangs of guilt thinking about these great drawings getting buried on our Flickr account only hours after they were posted. So, writing a blog with links featuring the winners' work is the least I could do.

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Mexican architect Alberto Kalach's "books as great ark of knowledge" concept was selected from more than 500 proposals. Described by coolhunting.com writer, Laura Nielson, it is "an outstanding example of a contemporary digital-age library, not to mention a significant display of Mexico's modern architectural movement". She goes on to say:

"Dedicated to José Vasconcelos, one of the country's most influential minds of the early twentieth century, the library originally...

Did anyone catch the recent Newsweek cover? The magazine features Italian artist, Lorenzo Petrantoni, and his trademark collage technique that integrates typefaces and illustrations in the style of early 19th-century signage and advertising combined with modern symbols, icons and what appears to be that decorative scrolly stuff straight out of Microsoft's Wingdings.

President-elect Barack Obama is front and center, arms crossed, exuding confidence, with the words, "The New...

Biojewelry made from donated bone cells. Body modification for love. Free-hand sketches drawn in the air, captured by video and instantly materialized. Fabric built 3-dimensionally, layer by layer on a computer. Victimless leather. Health labs on a card in your pocket. Housing and city planning based on six-sided nanoparticle growth patterns. Furniture design that mimics the human body's ability to generate bone to support different areas of pressure. Mapping neighborhoods that yeild higher levels of social injustice and incarceration. Internet dating site data made into individual portraits that can be perfected and changed by the viewer.

Prepare to be amazed!