A great post on designer Josef Müller-Brockmann at I Love Typography:
A student from the back of the room shouted out a wish to see JMB’s business card. As JMB casually pulled the business card out of his coat pocket, there was a frenzy like fish at a pond when the morsels are tossed in. He was taken aback as we scurried around to take a peak at the card revealed; novice typographers eager to see his miniature piece of art. I still remember the card clearly. It was on light gray paper stock printed with a solitary color of cool gray ink. All content was in a singular sans serif face, all lowercase, and no punctuation to speak of other than the umlaut and hyphen in his distinguished name. No commas, no periods, no colons. All the elements on the card were restricted to the purest of necessary elements. In that small space he proved the mastery of minimalism; communication clearly achieved without the use of a period or a comma.
Thumbnails — An interview with book cover designer Isaac Tobin at the University of Chicago Magazine:
His approach to cover designs… hasn’t changed even as Kindles have sparked an ink and paper bonfire. Book covers always have had to work at reduced size, to be appealing from afar on a bookshelf or to make attractive catalog displays. “Things like color and shape,” Tobin says, “can do a lot to work from a distance or in a thumbnail.”
My 2009 interview with Isaac is here.
Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn are going to publish a limited edition book of their photographs.
And finally…
Holy Offset Press, Batman! — My favourite thing on the internet this week so far… Marvel and DC superheroes printing comics (with art by Joe Kubert):
(thx Jacob!)