Saturday, March 03, 2012
Caslon et al.
A book repository designed along the model of the Svalbard seed vault. (John Seabrook's memorable piece about the seed vault is online only to New Yorker subscribers, but here's a good slide show to an old NYT story on the same topic. Peruvian potatoes and Syrian legumes are among the most recent deposits.)
Labels:
archives,
collecting,
farming,
georgics,
preservation,
seeds,
storage,
typography
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