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Review: Prince of Persia

Once again the Prince of Persia series has received a makeover, Starting from scratch for a third time. This incarnation of the franchise seems to be the antithesis of the much celebrated original. Forget everything you know about any Prince of Persia game you’ve played in the past before delving in to this one.The Ubisoft Montreal team with Senior Producer Bertrand Heias has set us up with a new protagonist...

Lego for Adults

Don’t worry. This post is ‘safe for work’ despite what your imagination may be telling you. Apparently there is a book called “Lego for Adults” available online to purchase which outlines how to build weapons out of Lego. One of the actual shooting guns is features on the cover to whet your appetite and the book itself even features a slide-action magazine-fed crossbow pistol. This book...

Kickstart

Alexander Herman, Paul Matthews and Andrew Feindel graduated from university like countless others; unsure of what to do next in life. They decided to spend the subsequent two years figuring that out by investigating through interview how other successful Canadians kiskstarted their own careers and lives in hopes of finding the inspiration they needed to do the same with theirs. The resulting book, ‘Kickstart:...

The Monster Engine

Dave Devries is such a plaigarist. He takes drawings from poor defenseless children, spices them up with his fancy schmancy illustration skills then publishes them in his own book. Think your kid can draw? Think again. Whatever your kid can manage, Dave here will 1up them like nobody’s business. (Hi Marissa & Thanks for the tip!)

ABC3D

Marion Bataille has produced a pretty fantastic looking book called ABC3D. Its a three dimensional pop-up book mixing papercraft, typography, graphic design, and fun. There is a preview video up of her own hand made proof of the book in action and the book itself is already available for ‘preorder’ though is out allegedly in October of 2008 from Roaring Book...
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