November 29, 2012
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Ruined… For Life — Yuka Igarashi on the consequences of copy-editing at Granta: There is a danger to copy-editing. You start to read in a different way. You start to see the sentence as machinery. You focus on the gears … Continue reading
June 8, 2012
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A stunning jacket design by the great Isaac Tobin for After Freud Left, published by University of Chicago Press. You can read my interview with Isaac from 2009 here. Bauhütte to Bauhaus – A fascinating overview of the Bauhaus by Frank Whitford, … Continue reading
May 9, 2012
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Lyra Kilston reviews Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design for the LA Review of Books. The Well-Made Book — An interesting article by Michael Agresta on how printed books, and their design, are changing in the digital age: … Continue reading
May 2, 2012
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This Precarious Balancing Act — Maud Newton talks to Alison Bechdel, author of (the astonishingly good) Fun Home, about her new graphic novel Are You My Mother?. Fascinating stuff: I feel like cartooning for me has been like a way to be … Continue reading
April 13, 2012
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A stunning new cover for James Joyce’s The Dubliners by German designer Apfel Zet (which reminds me — in a good way — of Tony Meeuwissen’s Woodbine-inspired cover for Billy Liar published by Penguin in the 1970′s). Consistent Forms of Hostility — With an exhibition opening … Continue reading