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 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
January 11, 2012
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An interview with Jason Cohn, director of the documentary Eames: The Architect and The Painter, at Imprint: Charles was extremely ambitious and maybe a little bit cut throat in his career. I do think that it was important to him to … 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
December 8, 2008
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“I have always enjoyed photographing loners” — A lovely BBC audio slideshow of “Writers’ Rooms” narrated by award winning photographer Eamonn McCabe. The project, appearing weekly in The Guardian and currently on show Madison Contemporary Art in London, captures the … Continue reading