Floating — Toronto illustrator Michael Cho on his cover art and interior illustrations for The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj (published by Random House Canada).
The Ideal Studio Library — It’s Nice That interviews designer Jason Godfrey about his beautiful new book Bibiographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books, published by Laurence King, (and yes, full disclosure, LK are distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books):
My aim was to create the ideal studio library of graphic design books and put this into a book format. I had always felt that there was a need for a visual reference to that could give flesh to many reading lists that have been published… The really tricky choices were the more recent books as it is difficult to know whether they will become classic points of reference, time will tell if I made the right choices on these books.
Bezette Stad — A book of poems by Paul van Ostaijen, illustrated with woodcuts by Oskar Jespers, available in full at the University of Iowa Libraries’ astonishing International Dada Archive (via the lovely Aqua-Velvet).
And finally…
ENOUGH! — The hilariously on the money Editorial Anonymous:
I REALLY NEED A FRICKING BREAK FROM THE “FUTURE OF PUBLISHING” TALK… I don’t need to read any more of these articles, and neither do you.
A quick overview:
1. Publishing is a somewhat crappy business. Which makes it PRETTY MUCH LIKE EVERY OTHER BUSINESS.
2. Publishing has a future. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT WILL BE.So everyone can stop
a. COMPLAINING
and
b. COMPLAINING.Thank you.
No, no, Thank YOU.
Hi Dan, great selections… as always! Really like Michael’s clean and mean cover art. And Bibliographic will certainly be a fantastic resource, am putting it on *the list*. Great to see Bezette Stad receiving some more airtime, thanks so much for the link back. :~)
p.s. Humorous take on the publishing biz via Editorial Anonymous… forgot to mention. Er didn’t want you to suppose I am just looking at the pretty pictures and not actually reading your finely crafted copy finely incorporating the copy of others, ha.
Thx Amy! I’m really happy to see Michael getting wider recognition and I love that he’s now doing book covers.
Bibliographic is a beautiful book — worth browsing in a bookstore even if you don’t actually buy it! BUT if you DO want to buy it, the fabulous Chronicle Books are the US distributor so it should be widely available in all the usual places…
And it’s good to know that you read the blog as well as look at it! (But just looking is OK too!). :-)