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paul rand

Mendelsund vs. Kafka

January 26, 2011

Peter Mendelsund on his remarkable (and unexpectedly Paul Rand-like) Kafka redesigns for Knopf imprint Schocken: After all, what is it that makes Kafka, Kafka? The economy; the dark humor; the teasing inscrutability; the brilliance of the thought-experiments; the hieratic and esoteric flavor of the constructions; the disorienting cadence of the prose; the impeccable, internal, magical [...]

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10+ Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration

February 22, 2010

“10 Websites for Vintage Books, Covers and Inspiration” is one of the most popular posts on The Casual Optimist, and here, at long last, is the promised follow-up: “10 Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration.” There are a lot of amazing photostreams with book sets – Covers etc, insect54, Kyle Katz, mjkghk, Montague, Paula [...]

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Something for the Weekend, June 19th, 2009

June 19, 2009

50/50 — AIGA announce their 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008. Included in the fifty is the cover of Kenneth Hayes’ Milk and Melancholy designed by Toronto’s Underline Studio (pictured above). Gxuu! — Linguist Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages, chooses her 10 favourite words from invented languages for The University of [...]

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What Are You Looking At?

February 5, 2009

This book just arrived in our office and it’s staring right at me! There’s more than a little something of  the late, great Paul Rand about the transfixing cover for Essentials of Visual Communication by Bo Bergstrom (published by Laurence King)  wouldn’t you say? …which is about all the excuse I need  to post this [...]

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