The Sigla Blog

If you can’t actually get around to reading all your old hardback books, here are a couple of suggestions. Via Curbly, a video tutorial on how to make this bag:

Or, via a Design Files interview with Australian book sculptor Nicolas Jones (more images via the link, something a bit trickier.

Thanks to Jazz Biscuit who today took time out from making us laugh to post a video about Platelet Donation. Having received a lot of blood and platelet transfusions during chemotherapy, I used to do a lot of press stuff for the IBTS to raise awareness about platelets. Everyone knows about giving blood, but very […]

143 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln was watching a performance of Our American Cousin, when John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head. Lincoln’s prophetic dream about his own assassination is well documented (he dreamt he saw a funeral, and when he asked a soldier who was dead, was told that it was the president […]

Chris Cunningham made two stunning but controversial videos for Aphex Twin in the 1990s. ‘Come To Daddy’ made it to number 35 in Channel 4’s Most Scary Moments, mainly for the image of an oversized demon figure bellowing at a nice little old lady. In ‘Windowlicker’, Richard D. James (one of the best things to […]

Fústar has been been keeping the hellfires of Dreadful Thoughts burning. I had to miss last Monday’s discussion - a double helping of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Poe and Saki’s ‘Sredni Vashtar’ - but you can still offer your thoughts on either story here.
Mulley’s Fluffy badges now have an evil twin in the […]

Having been terribly disappointed by the last couple of Salman Rushdie books, I can tentatively say that I’m enjoying The Enchantress of Florence. Midnight’s Children - winner of the Booker of Bookers - is one of my favourite books of all time. I also loved The Satanic Verses and Haroun and The Sea of Stories, […]

“I make my music at The Saltlands. It’s a studio that I spent all summer building with a few friends in DUMBO Brooklyn. It’s in the basement of an enormous old factory building and I’ve had a rehearsal space there for the last five years. We got our haz-mats on and put up walls, […]

Congratulations to Pat McCabe, who is one of eight shortlisted authors for the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It’s the world’s largest financial literary prize (for a single work of fiction in English), with the winner scooping €100,000. The prize is voted for by libraries across the globe and it’s no mean feat making the […]

“My music begins with me alone in my bedroom. It’s a square room in a high-ceilinged Victorian house. I work on a computer at a pine desk, programming and arranging until my fingers freeze (there’s no heating). When I’m not at the desk I lie on the floor, or I perch in […]