The ultimate in reading stands, by Bruno Mathsson.
Synonym, a magazine that tells immigrant stories through food.
To mark a place, Lucky Star Candle's burnable bookmark braid.
Fornasetti's Libri magazine rack, because of the key, the butterfly, and the tasseled bookmark.
COMBO, an annual magazine "conceived as an archive of our collective dreams."
Louie Issaman Jones' sculptural bookstand, designed to display spreads.
Word Making and Taking, the 19th century's favorite word game, via Haec City / Also Books.
Maggie Umber's Sound of Snow Falling, a visual diary of great horned owls.
"A piece of glass" by Derek Sullivan: "a publication to hang in a window, a bit of wonder when conditions permit" at Paul + Wendy Projects.
Archival boxes, for keeping rare pieces.
Sounds for Focus & Productivity, a zine by Sun-Rom and AURAGRAPH that comes with a risograph-printed poster for the wall and a flexidisc for the turntable.
The Brick Journal, "a collaborative publication devoted to the visual language, social and geologic histories, and cultural production that stem from and connect to brickmaking and brick work."
Alan Sobrino's epistolary novel sent by mail, via five handwritten letters imagining the sexy correspondence Valmont and M. Merteuil of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Alica Nauta's Reference Library Files, a book that documents looking for images at the Toronto Reference Library.
Jewelry for books, by Fixed Air.
Bundle Theory, an essay by Romy Day Winkel published by OUTLINE on "collecting, or hoarding, as an aesthetic of patiences."
Morgan Ritter's wearable poems, "curious tags [that] may be integrated into your life as plainly as the branded tags on the interior of your garments."
A wheely silver Hulken bag, for schlepping finds home from library sales and art book fairs. (I have this and love it so, so much.)
Not pictured: Gift certificates to a magazine/zine-focused store, like Chess Club or The City Reader in Portland, Oregon, Periodicals in Detroit, Paper + Dirt in Pittsburgh, Hi Desert Times in Twentynine Palms, the Heath Newsstand in San Francisco, Tomo in Austin, Quimby or Inga in Chicago, and in New York City, Bungee Space, Casa, Head Hi, Iconic, Magazine Cafe, and Printed Matter. Alternatively, a subscription to Stack, Steven Watson's marvelous magazine subscription service, which delivers a different independent magazine from around the world each month.
Finally (though truly, this list could go on forever): Marcell Mars' manifesto:
In the 1990s, activist, independent scholar, and artist Marcell Mars founded Memory of the World / Public Library amidst the ruins of the former Yugoslavia, with the aim of resisting the privatization of knowledge and encouraging everyone to freely share books online.
B09k’s poster work is a re-enactment of Mars’s Public Library manifesto,
“When everyone is a librarian, the library is everywhere,” inviting everyone to participate and become part of the world’s memory.
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Okay, one more idea/shameless plug: magazines about sound and emotion, mushrooms (1 + 2), and cats, edited by yours truly.
