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Midweek Miscellany

May 9, 2012

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: Now, as we move into the digital age, the well-made copy has come to occupy [...]

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Signature Shakespeare Illustrated by Kevin Stanton

May 7, 2012

Freelance illustrator and paper artist Kevin Stanton recently contacted me about his book illustrations for the new Signature Shakespeare editions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. Art directed by Ashley Prine at Sterling Publishing, and with additional typography by the immensely talented Chin-Yee Lai, both books have laser-cut covers, as well as five laser-cut interior illustrations per book, and more [...]

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Steven Heller on Design Matters

May 7, 2012

In a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation, design historian Steven Heller talks about design and his recent book 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design with Debbie Millman on Design Matters: Design Matters: Steven Heller mp3 Heller really is an astonishingly prolific author. (Full disclosure: 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design is published by Laurence King and [...]

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More Matt Taylor Le Carré

May 4, 2012

Under Paul Buckley’s art direction at Penguin US, UK-based illustrator Matt Taylor has produced two more stunning John le Carré covers. The type and design is by Gregg Kulick. You can see the previous covers in the series here, and, according to Matt, there are a couple more on the way. Happy day.

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Something for the Weekend

May 4, 2012

Cover illustration by Adrian Tomine for the Japanese edition of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, published by Shinchosha Publishing. The Darkness — Norwegian cartoonist Jason profiled in The National Post: “A comedy that has some darkness, like The Apartment, is more appealing than if it’s just fluff. Ingmar Bergman’s best film, to me, is Fanny [...]

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