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The Making of Man by Algernon Swinburne, Designed and published by Gordon Murray.
The continuation of our little spring series, this embordered cover really caught our eye! Algernon Swinburne was an English poet and novelist, and also contributed to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
The artist, Gordon Murray, was an English animator and puppeteer who produced children’s shows for the BBC and independently. He also created "thirty-four different limited-edition miniature books under the Silver Thimble Books imprint.“ UIowa holds a collection of his works. See the cataloghere!
"Bound in light blue cloth with a needlework inset on cover. Issued in a slipcase with printed label. Each page has a hand painted illustration or marbled paper with printed text mounted on top of pages. Gordon Murray V 1986. "Printed on double leaves; text sheets are mounted with hand colored initials.” –Catalog
–Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student
Anyone taking up a new hobby over the summer? Needlepoint and cross-stitch seems to be gaining popularity recently, with some neat pop culture designs!
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“ The F1 is a shining light of engineering clarity and devotion to driver experience in a world increasingly darkened by automatic gearboxes and electric power steering. “
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“ Driving pleasure is about the sensation of control over a machine; exerting a will that is directly contrary to both the laws of nature and reason. An ape shouldn’t be able to direct a machine with over 350 explosions per second at over 8 times faster than any ape was designed to move. The more directly that will is expressed, the more directly the machine acts in response to its inputs, the more pleasurable the experience. “
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“The F1 came to bring us into a new era of automotive design. A herald of more advanced machinery with superior dynamics, packaging, and performance.
Which was promptly declined by the world at large.”
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Image from the “Any Road” music video (available to watch on the official George YouTube channel).
Q: “You are a keen driver and own two cars close to being racing models, don’t you? They must give you a lot of pleasure.”
George Harrison: “My McLaren F1 road car always gives me an awesome feeling when I am in it. Next favorite is my Rocket (for hooligans only). Respects to Gordon Murray (designer of both the McLaren F1 and the Rocket, and the BT46B, and now head of car design at McLaren International). Bit of a contrast to my first cars, a Ford Anglia and a Jaguar MkII.” - The Times F1 Handbook, March 2001“[George] had such fun building the McLaren. When we did the McLaren F1, we decided, I decided that it would be the most personalized motorcar ever made. And if you wanted to customize the car, way beyond paint colors and stuff, if you wanted special bits and pieces, we encouraged people to come down [to the factory]. And George got that concept, and he got it big time. And he used to [laughs] — he almost lived there. We actually joked about getting him a bedroom in the factory, because he used to be down there every week. And I think, I think the car ended up with Ganesh — you know, the Indian little elephant thing [ed. note: Hindu God Ganesh] — I think the car ended up with fourteen elephants in it. […] He really went for it on the customization. So that makes it a very special motorcar. And it was great fun doing it. In fact, the guys building the car so loved him coming round that they made him a special book with all the photographs of it, his car being built, and signed it, and they gave it to him at the end.” - Gordon Murray, Living In The Material World bonus features (x)
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