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The Helmet of Horror | Angus Hyland

by Dan on July 21, 2011

As a follow up to yesterday’s Design Matters post, I just wanted to share Angus Hyland’s extraordinary design for The Helmet of Horror by Victor  Pelevin, published as part Canongate’s Myths series a few years ago:

The illustration is by Sara Fanelli.

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Angus Hyland | Design Matters

by Dan on July 20, 2011

Pentagram partner Angus Hyland has designed book covers for Canongate, Penguin and others. On the latest Design Matters podcast, Hyland discusses childhood brand recognition, Tintin, music, dyslexia, book design and his new book Symbol, co-authored with Steven Bateman, with host Debbie Millman:

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Disclosure: Symbol is published by Laurence King and distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books. 

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Something for the Weekend

January 7, 2011

A Sense of What’s Possible — Ramona Koval talks to Edith Grossman about her book Why Translation Matters and her translation of Don Quixote for The Book Show on ABC Radio National. From the transcript: What I mean by ‘deep reading’…and it comes after a couple or three readings…what I mean is capturing the subtleties [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

July 14, 2010

The portfolio of Julia Hastings, Art Director of Phaidon Press (via It’s Nice That). Rarefied Content — Alan Rapp on the future of photography books at Imprint: [A]rguably the independently published photo book is flourishing. You can see this from the increasing popularity of on-demand printing services such as Blurb, Lulu, and MagCloud , as [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

February 24, 2010

Precisely and Concisely — The Caustic Cover Critic interviews designer and Artistic Director of Granta magazine Michael Salu: Bizarrely, designers looking for employment are often judged by what software they’re able to use. Intellect, cultural awareness and often creativity don’t seem to be values worthy of a resume. There is no substitute for good ideas, [...]

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