Book Design
For some of us, the holiday season is about one thing and one thing only. Ok, two things. Ok, a bunch of things—all nicely wrapped and book-related. Because there is nothing more satisfying than winter reading, whether it’s the classic you know almost by heart, the novel everybody else already read six months ago, or the thriller you’ll never admit you couldn’t put down.
We’ve been big fans of the Out of Print tee series ever since we first stumbled upon the site. Then, about a month ago we saw this book design gem over on Mikey Burton’s Flickr stream. Thus, when we saw that Out of Print and Mikey hooked up to make the tees above, well, it was like a fairy godmother had read our diary!
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood, as our dad likes to say—and indeed, having discovered Joëlle Jolivet’s lusciously illustrated children’s books, we’re about ready for a second helping. We’ve been aware of Jolivet’s work for some time now: while browsing our favorite librairies…
Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna is probably best known as the creator of Miffy — Nijntje in Dutch — the cute but inscrutable rabbit dressed like a toddler and pictured, in bold lines and primary colors, at the zoo, in the snow, at the seaside, etc…
Rather quirky and a whole lot indie, the selection of clothing over at Perks and Mini’s online boutique Someday Store is a upbeat trendsetter’s wonderland. Founders (and lovebirds!) Misha Hollenbach and Shauna Toohey have carefully curated their catalog to include pieces from Bernhard Willhelm, Billionaire Boys Club & Ice Cream, Domestique, Headporter (more on this amazing label coming soon!), Medicom Toy, Neighborhood, Original Fake, Rough Pista, and, of course, plenty of stuff from Someday Store’s founding label PAM and sister label Pambook. We’ve picked out some of our favorites here (yay! Smurfs! yay! Barry McGee! yay! upside down type on canvas bag!)…
A few months back, while splashing around in the happy bookstore mud that is Amazon, I came across David McCandless’ infographics atlas, The Visual Miscellaneum (also titled Information is Beautiful for the UK hardcover edition). As a total graph & data junkie I immediately sleuthed up some details around the author/designer, and found that, aside from the two books under his belt, the writer has contributed visual information & great writing to the likes of The Guardian, Tank, and one of my all-time favorites, Wired. Well, lucky for me, I got the chance to dissect The Visual Miscellaneum / Information is Beautiful page by page and ask David some questions about his approach to visualizing data in a world of rather staggering & bleak stats…
I just loved Back-to-School when I was a kid. Pacing the aisles of Staples, I made sure not to let a single thumbtack’s worth of office supplies slip past my scrutinizing eye. One of my favorite things to do was to wrap my textbook covers…
It seems Santa received my Christmas list this year because, wrapped and waiting under the tree was Marjane Satrapi’s latest graphic oeuvre, Chicken with Plums…
