A design:related interview Rich Roat, co-founder of House Industries, about starting a foundry, type trends, and the future of type design on the web:
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Published July 15, 2010
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Published July 15, 2010
Waiting for “Superman”
After posting about Newsweek‘s report on education and declining creativity in America yesterday, this amazing animated infographic created by Buck for the documentary Waiting for “Superman” seems awfully relevant:
Made by David Oscar-winning filmmaker David Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary about the American public education system and how it is failing kids. You can watch the trailer here.
(via The Donut Project)
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Published July 9, 2010
You Can’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover
Published June 22, 2010
Intricate Beauty by Design
Graphic artist Marian Bantjes (whose typeface Restraint was used to great effect by Arthur Cherry for the cover of The Story of God by Michael Lodahlr) on individuality in design at TED:
(Via Nate Williams)
UPDATE: There is more about Arthur Cherry’s design for The Story of God at FaceOut Books.
Published June 11, 2010
Hi-Fi
Drawing inspiration from the iconic Blue Note LP covers from the 1950’s and 60’s designed by American modernist designer Reid Miles, Hi-Fi is an amazing music video directed by Bante for last year’s concert season at the Bellavista Social Pub, in Sienna, Italy (how great does that sound?).
It’s beautifully done. In fact, the whole video just made me smile…
(Discovered via the excellent The Font Feed who also point to this great article The Jazzy Blue Notes of Reid Miles)
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Published June 3, 2010
Time & Again
Time & Again is a melancholy short film by Jacques Khouri about a man’s repetitive daily life. It is beautifully done with animated Chris Ware-like sequential panels:
Published May 28, 2010
The Distant Hours
Andersen M Studio, the team behind the amazing stop-frame animation book trailer Going West, have produced another stunning short film using intricate paper cut-outs for Kate Morton‘s new novel The Distant Hours (to be published by Pan Macmillan):
(via Creative Review)
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Published May 22, 2010
Penguin RED
Penguin Press Art Director and designer Jim Stoddart talks about his design for the (Penguin Classics)RED edition of Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola:
Penguin designers Coralie Bickford-Smith and Stefanie Posavec also talk about their designs for series.
There’s more information about the videos and the (Penguin Classics)RED editions on the Penguin Blog and you can see all the covers of all 8 books on Flickr.
You can read my interview with the talented Ms. Bickford-Smith here.
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Published May 19, 2010
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Published May 11, 2010
Up There
Published March 29, 2010
Doctorow at Bloomsbury
Whether you agree with him or not, this is an interesting — if scatter-gun — talk by Cory Doctorow on publishing, e-books, pricing, and DRM (and more) at UK publisher Bloomsbury:
There are some additional notes (and a couple of corrections!) at Cory Doctorow’s website.
(via Ted Striphas’ The Late Age of Print)
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Published March 29, 2010
The Abolition of Built-In Obsolescence
A nice short video about Dieter Rams’ design philosophy and the recent exhibition of his work at the Design Museum London:
What has this got to do with books? Well, it’s a timely reminder to care about what we make…
(video via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals)
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