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Rime

December 4, 2009

Jimmy Turrell‘s book cover illustration for Beat IV: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a fully illustrated edition of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem published by the Heart Agency to showcase the work of their illustrators. The book, designed by Pentagram, won a D&AD Award for illustration and book design. (via We Made This)

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Midweek Miscellany (Paul Auster Edition), November 25th, 2009

November 26, 2009

The award-winning Folio Society edition of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and illustrated by Tom Burns has just about blown my mind. MUST. HAVE. James Wood on the novels of Paul Auster in the The New Yorker: Auster is a compelling storyteller, but his stories are assertions rather than persuasions. They declare themselves; [...]

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5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks

October 26, 2009

“If you do what you love and you find other people who do what they love, you’ll be successful, you’ll do great work, [and] chances are you’ll actually make money miraculously enough. If you combine that with a bit of egotism and a taste for the spotlight you could also become famous, but definitely I [...]

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