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Something for the Weekend

March 5, 2010

New from David Drummond The Original Spirit — Toronto indie institution This Ain’t The Rosedale Library (one of the 10 best bookshops in the world according to The Guardian) featured at Books@Torontoist, with some nice quotes from owner Charlie Huisken: “creative knowledge [is] accumulative and comes from many sources… Being an autodidact has served me [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

January 20, 2010

Catcher in the Rye — Illustration and hand-lettering by Toronto-based Darren Booth (self-directed project). Darren has done a rather fine Lord of the Flies cover as well. The Catastrophist — Chris Hitchens on J.G. Ballard in The Atlantic: For most of his life, our great specialist in catastrophe made his home in the almost laughably [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, August 5th, 2009

August 5, 2009

Foucault — A nice new cover design from David Drummond (approval pending). (And apparently I like photos of the backs of people’s heads) Kill Your Darlings — Print asks book designers Carol Devine Carson, John Gall, Paul Buckley, Rodrigo Corral, John Gray, Gabriele Wilson, Paul Sahre, and Peter Mendelsund about the covers that didn’t quite [...]

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Something for the Weekend

May 22, 2009

Das Boot — David Drummond’s cover for Canadian Water Politics Edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller has been selected for the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers this year. The book is published by McGill-Queens University Press who clearly take pride in the look of their books and have some other rather nice [...]

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