Books, Design and Culture
We’re big fans of Luke Pearson and his ‘Hildafolk’ graphic novels in our house. In this video for publisher Nobrow Press he talks about drawing the books, and the most recent volume in the series, Hilda and the Black Hound:
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The folks behind the amazing Nobrow Press have just launched a childrens imprint called Flying Eye Books. Their first book is Welcome To Your Awesome Robot by Viviane Schwarz.
This short film created for the launch of the imprint was storyboarded and animated by Jambonbon (James D Wilson), using the original illustrations of Ben Newman. The music was composed by Lloyd Evans.
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Eye, Eye! — The Creative Review looks at the vibrant work of printing studio/small press Nobrow.
It’s an Anagram! — Indigo’s e-book initiative Shortcovers has become ‘Kobo’. Much fuss has been made about the name (and the slightly iffy redesign), but what’s more interesting is that Kobo is being spun-off from its parent company in an attempt to expand its global reach… The intrepid Mark Bertils and PW have more on the international angle; Wired think Amazon should be worried; and The National Post have a good Q&A with Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis…
Collector’s Items — Vote for your favourite Nabokov cover from John Gall‘s set of individually commissioned redesigns for Vintage.
The Decade of Dirty Design — Steven Heller, author of Handwritten and New Vintage Type (to name just a couple) on the “anti-digital” Oughts (via Charles Brock):
With the increase of the D.I.Y. sensibility, with renewed emphasis on “making things from scratch,” designers were feeling a need to make physical (not virtual) contact with their materials and outcomes…
[Perhaps less “anti-digital” than “post-digital“? Any thoughts designers?]
And finally…
The Hitchcock Collection — a self-initiated project by London-based graphic designer Ryan Tym (via FormFiftyFive):
After recently purchasing a badly designed Alfred Hitchcock
DVD box set, I set to work on creating my own collection of
original covers. Each design features an iconic image related
to the film it represents and includes a bold typographic
title.
I would love to see Ryan design some book covers… Wouldn’t you?
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