Extra-Alphabetical Ordering Systems
Aaron Britt at Dwell Magazine discusses their research office’s practice of organizing books by color.
We’ve organized our bookshelf by color for some time here at Dwell. And to be fair, it looks great. As visitors pass the design wall, the current issue of the magazine tacked up in its unbound state, they’re met with a rack of chromatic harmony. Hell, we even put a picture of the shelf in the March 08 issue of the magazine.
Includes a link to Design Observer’s discussion of various organizational systems for books as well as some images of San Francisco’s Adobe Bookstore much-publicized by-color experiment.
(Personally, I don’t have much of an organizational system beyond saying,
I think it’s on campus.
if I’m at home and
I think it’s at home.
if I’m on campus. If I were actually organized, I’d shift to the by-color method because I can usually visualize the cover of what I’m looking for.
[via http://www.dwell.com/]
