For book lovers is a pleasure – and even a little satisfaction – discover that, once concluded the 2014 edition of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, as the exhibition is destined to design objects and furniture, books have been involved as much as the furniture. In which way? With libraries of course! Which become

Drop Folio – Sheet that shows the page number in the foot when in the other pages it is placed at the top; it is typically used for chapter start pages. Dummy – Volume composed solely of white sheets of paper, prepared by the printer or publisher to present to the client or to the

Man is a hunter, a discoverer, a seeker by nature. He’s always been searching for what he needed to evolve, adapt, feel good. And also to learn, to have fun, to know. On one hand, the hunter, on the other the prey, the object of pursuit, desire, sometimes. The book. Entity that lives on the

After the success of the art version (found at this link), the book Sun and snow becomes for everyone with the paperback version. Fermoeditore started “from above”, giving shape to the suggestions of the text and images using the straw paper, in Italy tied to food for tradition and of strong emotional performance; special papermaking

Bambolo – In case of browning is called like that the swab of cotton wool covered with fine linen and mounted on a wooden handle used in bookbinding to apply a uniform and light layer of almond oil on the scalp before applying the starched gold leaf. Trim – The thin fringing present in the

Large fold – Special folding sheets technique; using it, the texture of paper is disposed parallel to the spine of the book (from top to bottom). Apocryphal, book – Generally referred to a non authentic work or not recognized by the author or unrelated to the traditional canon of his writings. Famous examples are the

New presentation for the newest Fermoeditore book, Whodunit, blue cat?. This time the location was in Milan, in I.E.D. (European Institute of Design) headquarters. Title of the meeting, “Whodunit, blue cat?: from thesis to book.” The authors were there, once again – Giulia Coppola, Silvia Magnani and Paolo Zadra – and they explained their project

Futurists had their loved “words in freedom”. The new century, despite the advent of e-books and e-book readers, finds its form of editorial freedom in bookcrossing. Initiative launched in 2001, which consists essentially in distributing free books identified by a code to follow their path. The distribution takes place through dedicated and unpaid initiatives during