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Something for the Weekend

April 23, 2010

Two stunningly beautiful, and sadly unused, designs by Henry Sene Yene with photographs by Jon Shireman for Picador’s BIG IDEAS // small books series. Picador decided not to publish the book. You can see Henry’s other designs for the series here. A Meaningful Publisher — Forbes profiles the fantastic NYRB Classics (via Sarah Weinman): While [...]

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Something for Weekend, May 29th, 2009

May 29, 2009

Hard-boiled — New designs for Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer books by Joe Montgomery seen at FaceOut Books. I know I link to FaceOut just about every other week, but it’s an awesome site and the juxaposition of images in this series are great (as are some of the unused comps). The Concierge and the Bouncer [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, April 22nd, 2009

April 22, 2009

Blue Prints for a World Revolution — seen at the Antiquarian Bookshop 108 Buddhas, which has an amazing collection of avant-garde journals and books from Japan and Eastern Europe  in their gallery section (via Michelle McCormick’s Inspiration Resource ). 12 Steps to Better Book Publishing — Good stuff from Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor-in-chief of [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, April 15th, 2009

April 15, 2009

The #amazonfail shitstorm — from Amazon’s awful “ham-fisted”  glitch (a phrase so dirty it’s probably de-listed from their own searches) to the seething self-righteous indignation on Twitter — has been enough to make me want turn off the internet and go back to bed. But if you need  an overview of the whole sorry story, [...]

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Something for the Weekend, Feb 27th, 2009

February 27, 2009

The 5 Rules of Book Cover Design Book — John Gall, VP and art Director at Vintage, talks about designing books at Barnes & Noble (video). There is also a nice print interview with John Gall from 2007 at STEP Inside Design magazine and another interview with the designer from the same year  at fwis [...]

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