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Midweek Miscellany

April 28, 2010

I’m currently in Vancouver for the Raincoast Books sales conference and I was very happy to see Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Steven Heller and Elaine Lustig Cohen on Chronicle Books Fall 2010 list. Design:Related has a short piece about the book here. (Obvious disclosure: Born Modern will be distributed [...]

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10+ Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration

February 22, 2010

“10 Websites for Vintage Books, Covers and Inspiration” is one of the most popular posts on The Casual Optimist, and here, at long last, is the promised follow-up: “10 Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration.” There are a lot of amazing photostreams with book sets – Covers etc, insect54, Kyle Katz, mjkghk, Montague, Paula [...]

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Something for the Weekend

January 15, 2010

Salu, Bonjour! – The Caustic Cover Critic features the awesome work of designer Michael Salu. The typography is great. And speaking of typography… Knockout — The New York Times profile type jedis Hoefler & Frere-Jones: Sitting in their New York studio in the charmingly ramshackle Cable Building, designed in 1892 by the flamboyant Beaux-Arts architect [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

December 9, 2009

Well, oh shit. Go fuck yourself — The pugnacious George Lois in BlackBook magazine: The design was the idea. I don’t design, if you know what I mean. If you want Andy Warhol being devoured by his own fame in a can of Cambell’s soup, you just put the can there and you have him [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, November 18th, 2009

November 18, 2009

Lusting After Lustig — Designers Charles Brock and Tim Green share their collection at FaceOut Books. While Amazon announced the Kindle will be available in Canada this week, The New York Times looks at reading on phones: Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones [...]

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