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JG Ballard

Something for the Weekend

October 1, 2010

There are two new books about designer Alvin Lustig available this month — Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Steven Heller and Elaine Lustig Cohen (Chronicle Books*) and Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press). The Death of [...]

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Something for the Weekend

September 24, 2010

Sadly I missed the book launch earlier this week, but Toronto-based artist and illustrator Gary Taxali talked to the Torontoist and The National Post about his new kids book This is Silly!. You can see more of Taxali’s amazing book covers here. Artifacts — Maximus Clarke has a fascinating conversation with William Gibson about his [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

June 16, 2010

Jimmy Corrigan Japanese Edition Poster from PRESSPOP (via Flog!). Zingers — Film critic and blogger Roger Ebert, who has lost the ability to speak unaided, on Twitter: Twitter for me performs the function of a running conversation. For someone who cannot speak, it allows a way to unload my zingers and one-liners… This has become [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

February 18, 2010

EndGrain — A “directory and aggregator for wood type and letterpress works and information on the web.” Lovely. Crash — Iain Sinclair (author, most recently, of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire — just out in paperback by the way) on JG Ballard’s artistic legacy: A late moralist, he practised undeceived reportage, not prophecy: closer to Orwell [...]

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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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