February 29, 2012
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Elegant Simplicity — A nice profile of book designer David Pearson at Spitalfields Life: On the basis of “Penguin By Design,” David was given the job to design the covers for Penguin Great Ideas, an experimental series of low-budget books … Continue reading
February 24, 2012
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Blown Covers — The New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly has a Tumblr (pictured above: “Eustace at a Stoplight—Right?,” by David Urban) Spanking – Charles McGrath remembers the late Barney Rosset in the New York Times: Mr. Rosset was far from … Continue reading
February 22, 2012
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Publisher, film distributor and rebel Barney Rosset has died aged 89. The Associated Press obituary is here: As publisher of Grove Press, Rosset was a First Amendment crusader who helped overthrow 20th century censorship laws in the United States and … Continue reading
November 4, 2011
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Project Thirty-Three, one of my favourite mid-century modern design blogs, is now using Blogger’s “Dynamic Views” template. It looks great using the new ‘Flipcard’ feature. The Crash — Alan Hollinghurst talks about writing and his new novel The Stranger’s Child with the … Continue reading