Posts tagged as:

Penguin

Q & A with Alistair Hall, We Made This

March 22, 2012

I first came across the London-based (and wonderfully-named) design studio We Made This by way of founder Alistair Hall’s prodigious collections of ephemera and found type on Flickr. The chances are I found these either via Ace Jet 170, a fellow designer and collector (and cyclist) who I interviewed last week, or Alistair’s page on Ffffound. It [...]

Read the full article →

Q & A with Richard Weston, Ace Jet 170

March 13, 2012

I don’t know exactly when I first discovered Ace Jet 170. It was a few years ago — at least four because I was reading it before I started The Casual Optimist. And it must have been recommended by someone (I Like? Noisy Decent Graphics?) because I don’t think I can have stumbled across it. [...]

Read the full article →

New Graphic Classics

March 6, 2012

Creative director Paul Buckley has posted the covers for the latest Penguin Graphic Classics to his Flickr. The new covers include Heart of Darkness by Hellboy creator (and Optimist hero) Mike Mignola (pictured above) and an absolute belter by Stuart Kolakovic for The Death of King Arthur: You can read my interviews with Paul Buckley here [...]

Read the full article →

Paris Versus New York

February 3, 2012

Vahram Muratyan’s playful illustrations comparing Paris and New York are now available in a beautiful new pocket-sized hardcover from Penguin. Prints are available to buy from the Paris versus New York blog.

Read the full article →

Midweek Miscellany

November 9, 2011

Expanded Original — Geoff Dyer, author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, on Penguin Modern Classics and the paintings used on their covers: The use of different paintings meant each book was a “modern classic” in its own particular way. A side effect was that books I was reading for an education in literature [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →