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Le Carré | Matt Taylor

July 13, 2011

Not long ago, I posted Stuart Bache’s wonderfully cinematic John Le Carré covers for Sceptre in the UK. Now (as mentioned earlier today) John Le Carré’s American publisher Penguin have reissued new editions of his books with amazing illustrations by Brighton-based illustrator Matt Taylor and design by Gregg Kulick and Paul Buckley. Mr Buckley art directed series. [...]

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Something for the Weekend

July 8, 2011

Sweet Nuttin’ — A primer on George Herriman’s classic and wonderfully idiosyncratic comic strip Krazy Kat at Robot 6: Krazy Kat is far from a chore… Indeed, it is rarely anything less than a delight to read, although it can be a bit challenging for newcomers. The early strips are dense with wordplay, while the [...]

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Herbert Bayer’s Book of Maps

June 10, 2011

Nate Burgos of Design Feast takes an appreciative look at the World Geo-Graphic Atlas (1953) designed by Herbert Bayer with Martin Rosenzweig, Henry Gardiner and Masato Nakagawa. Published in 1953, the book contains 2,200 diagrams, graphs, charts, and symbols about the planet: The video is part of a new series called ‘Rare Book Feast’ about [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

May 18, 2011

Juggling — The multi-tasking Charlotte Strick,  art editor of The Paris Review, art director at Faber & Faber and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and book designer,  interviewed at From The Desk Of… Genre — China Miéville, on his new book Embassytown and genre fiction in The Guardian: “I love genres; I think they are fascinating. [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

May 4, 2011

Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age — new from Steven Heller and Louise Fili, published by Thames & Hudson. 50/50 — Designer Andrew Henderson, curator of Lovely Book Covers, is going to spend 50 days designing 50 covers based on the 50 most influential books of the last 50 years. See also: Matt Roeser’s [...]

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