Webster’s lost visual dictionary
Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo ‘as a source for creativity in the human brain’ Yesterday, I thumbed thru Chronicle Books’ trade edition of Johnny Carrera’s...
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Penguin by Illustrators
When it comes to design, UK-based Penguin Books produces some beautiful specimens. And here’s a write up by Ace Jet 170 on the Penguin Collectors Society and their wonderful Penguin by Illustrators...
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Penguin: The covers
Check out Joe Kral’s Flickr collection of some of Penguin (and Pelican)’s best cover designs. And . . . check out Phil Baine’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005. Found via LifeClever Tweet
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Advertisement for the launch of the Turkish Edition of the New York Times, created by Istanbul-based studio Imago New Media More typographic details via The Font Feed here. Tweet
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Parkinson’s Sutro fonts
ADAC 38th season promotional material It’s not often one gets to meet one of their heroes. When I was in high school, a bunch of kids thought it would be funny to sign me up for every magazine...
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Alta California: Named after a newspaper
Alta California office, San Francisco 1851; found via Flickr At one point in my life, I was going to be a journalist. So folly along . . . . I love history, so every one of my fonts falls into some...
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Newspapers: What should be next?
One thing I know about journalists: They’re slow to change. Once dug in. Here’s an opinion piece about where newspapers could be headed. It involves The Times of London’s ePaper, which is a nifty...
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GOOD is good. So is Scott and his team.
GOOD is for people who give a damn – read more below. but first . . . OPEN studio’s Scott Stowell headed up the original design team for GOOD. And I have to write about Scott because he’s been a...
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Mitchell Hooks: Pulp
Mitchell Hooks was one of the pioneers of the ‘literal’ illustration style employed on pulp paperback covers. Overview here. Flickr collection here. And UK Vintage has a whole photostream of paperback...
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More Trek: Artist Toru Kanamori
When Star Trek first became a global sensation, Toru Kanamori landed a gig illustrating Japanese translations of the original series stories. Wouldn’t it be great to reprint a bunch of these in an art...
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Lustig collection
‘He was in the vanguard of a relatively small group who fervently, indeed religiously, believed in the curative power of good design when applied to all aspects of American life.’ -Steven Heller, Eye...
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Bonehead
Every time I teach a publication design course, I assign a famous designer (or other acclaimed individual) as a biographical research subject. As part of the class, students have to do their own...
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SFAUSTINA’s Bloodwars
‘The Magazine for Graffiti Writers, Street Lovers & Other things’ The latest issue is now available for free download. 102 pages. Go here. Tweet
View ArticleThe End of Print has arrived
So we just sat thru a really sucky decade. And there’s just a few weeks left. And even though it was predicted, oh, almost 15 years ago; the End of Print may finally be here. Next year. Watch the...
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Exit Strategy now online
exit strategy, digital The two editions of Aaron Winters’ Exit Strategy art annual are now available to peruse online at Issuu. Featuring art by Jessie LeDoux, Attaboy, Steak Mtn, Jay Howell, John...
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Judging books by (ugly) covers
‘Gradually, I realized that the books I had put off reading for so long all had covers that screamed: ‘Pulp me! Pulp me!” Joe Queenan looks at Huckleberry Finn, Elijah Wood (pictured, with Courtney B....
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42-line Rare Book Calendar 2010
I always forget to get a calendar. And it’s already the 30th. Here’s one: The 2010 42-line Rare Book Calendar features images from Hogarth (1753), William Blake (1793), Charles Le Brun (1806), an 1805...
View ArticleAn ode to the book arts
’3000 photographs (-ish), 35 books, 2 months’ The Complex of All of These, written by Abigail Uhteg, was letterpress printed at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. Music by Ratatat. Tweet
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‘Space Age Style from the Italian Bauhaus’
From LIFE Magazine, March 1969. Found via OBJECT PLASTIC Tweet
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Jules Verne lives!
‘A chance to re-design any classic book is always exciting. Classics usually allow for a more personal interpretation, since most people are already vaguely familiar with the premise of the books, and...
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Literate tees
Vintage covers by Alvin Lustig and more. Available thru Out of Print. Tweet
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A look at The NYT Magazine redesign
‘It’s all in the details. Our end slug was pulled right from the logo itself, the dot on the ‘i’ to be exact. This was a small but proud moment for us. I’m sure you saw the connection right away . ....
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Book gypsies in El Lay
‘They are traveling the country . . . join us for the day as they work on producing a unique keepsake with the Museum’s presses and materials – and then have a talk’ This Saturday, April 10, Santa...
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The Endeavor, 1979
‘Pursued by the relentless minions of the cruel despot Baron Karza, the freedom-fighting crew of the Endeavor breach the Space Wall and emerge on a strange and dangerous new world – a planet known as...
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Rollo Press
The work of Zurich-based Rollo Press. Found via Urban Outfitters Blog Tweet
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48 Hour Magazine: The clock starts Friday, May 7
‘As the name suggests, we’re going to write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.’ the process 48 Hour Magazine Issue Zero begins May 7, 2010. The editors will unveil...
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Morteza Momayez
‘Morteza Momayez (1936-2005) was a Tehran-based graphic designer of posters, covers, logos, and books.’ -Steven Heller More here. And here. Found via Reza Abedini Tweet
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Garcia’s ‘Pure Design’
‘Included are insights into designing covers, formatting pages, selecting photos, using content, choosing a color palette, and picking type for newspapers, magazines, books, and websites’ Another...
View ArticleMagazines in motion
‘Photographer Alexx Henry and his team show you how a magazine might look in the not-so-distant future with the October cover and spread for Outside Magazine.’ Kinda like this, but different. Found...
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Spot
From 2004: Magazine cover design by Amondó Szegi, co-founder of the Fontana Font Foundry. Tweet
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All the news on tee vee
‘Either they all use the same newspaper, or all these shows take place on the same exact day . . . which kind of makes my head hurt.’ Click to view larger/jump. Found via Hoefler+Frere-Jones, The...
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Avant Garde money
‘The third issue of Avant-Garde, May 1968, ran an attention-grabbing feature entitled ‘Revaluation of the Dollar: 19 Artists Design a New One-Dollar Bill.” I have this issue of Avant Garde. Managed to...
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Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico
‘Published posthumously in a limited edition of 250, features 142 sets of roman and italic typefaces, a wide selection of borders, ornaments, symbols, and flowers, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Russian,...
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SPY, the very good (Google) archive
‘[Spy] was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all.’ -Dave Eggers SPY Magazine. The New York monthly. The most influential magazine of its time. The Rosetta...
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Tschichold and Alta California
Rare Jan Tschichold book design, featuring his use of an early prototype of the Alta Calfornia font. Cloth cover for Das lustige Buch (The Funny Book), Verlag der Bücherkreis GmbH, Berlin, 1931. Tweet
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El Lissitzky: ‘Frankreich’
Cover design by El Lissitzky for Roget Ginzburger’s Frankreich (France) 1929. From Neues Bauen in der Welt, a book series on modern architecture published in Vienna. Below, recent release by...
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Czechoslovakian reads
A collection of Czechoslovakian book covers. More over at 50 Watts. Found via Mirko Humbert Tweet
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‘Diktor’
‘The ‘ella’ on Barbarella was probably suggested by Feiffer’s Passionella, a brilliant satire on the Cinderella theme and much of American culture.’ In 1966, French scifi comic Barbarella was...
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Twelve Fingers
Jo Soares’ Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist. Cover designed by Evan Gaffney (with Futura doing the type honors). Found via The Book Cover Archive Tweet
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Super Grotesk in Hell
Svend Smital’s Super Grotesk used on the cover of Brendan I. Koerner’s Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. Found via The Book Cover Archive Tweet
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Chandler in Oz
‘inspiring homes with heart’ Magazines are great sources for inspiration. Not as permanent as a logo – or brand – periodicals have a timer on them. After a few months, they’re gone. A good newsstand...
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Amerika!
‘On the 4th we celebrate what it means to be American: Consuming more than we need to and making things explode.’ -Andy Borowitz Pictured, Alvin Lustig’s 1946 cover design for Franz Kafka’s Amerika....
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Ein Hungerkünstler
‘the letters and punctuation marks were carved into lino plates and digitized to portray the bipolar nature of the protagonist by using lettering with a harsh edge.’ Juergen Schlotter’s interpretation...
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Neo2, Peregrin
Neo2 cover. Photography by Paco Peregrin. Plus, every issue of Neo2 comes with a free font. Details here. Blog here. Tweet
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Russian status symbol: The Book of Olga
‘Billionaire Sergei Rodionov shows off nude fantasy wife to world . . . if it succeeds, perhaps other Russian oligarchs will follow suit and such books could become the hot new status symbol.’ The...
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In Helfer & Baker’s Shadow
‘It didn’t last long; true-blue Shadow fans (and, apparently, the owners of The Shadow trademark) didn’t care for Helfer and Baker’s smart-ass approach, especially when they killed the character off...
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Famous designers on food
‘This collection of stories, instructions, memories and scrumptious ‘must try’ recipes makes a fascinating, entertaining, and revealing read’ Available this month from Baseline, What’s cooking? Famous...
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Karlie, LIFE
Karlie Kloss by Gabriele Revere, LIFE Magazine, 2011. Found via fuckyeahmagazinecover Tweet
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