Episode 2 of the wonderful PBS web-only series Off Book. Follow: @PBSOffBook. (via Off Book | Typography)
Category Archives: Design
The Invaluable, Incomparable 50 Watts
The above images is from Karel en Mienet (in Dutch) by Marietje Witteveen with illustrations by Eddy Dukkers circa 1950. We love its flat, friendly, and oddly mature geometry. Said wonderful image was found on the equally wonderful 50 Watts, a blog rich in book design and illustrative … Read More →
Drool Worthy: A Brief History of Title Design
Ian Albinson of The Art of the Title Sequence compiled this excellent collection of film titles and delivered it yesterday at the opening of the SXSW “Title Design Finalists Screening”. Enjoy. (via The Casual Optimist)
Fell Types: Historical Meets Digital
In a world where legacy publishing is pitted against digital, it’s refreshing to see a small spot on the web symbolically embrace the old and the new. We’re happy to share with you Igino Marini’s fell type and revival font source. The Fell Types took their … Read More →
2010 Vogue Pile-Up
The above is a curious—haunting, even—look into the mechanics, branding, and design choices behind one of the world’s top-selling mag empires: Vogue. Each pic is a country-specific mash-up of its 2010 covers. The covers have been layered digitally, one after the other, to expose visual averages. Vogue Italia … Read More →
Drool Worthy: Clip/Stamp/Fold
Come explore the “radical architecture of little magazines 196X-197X” at Clip/Stamp/Fold. If your interest is in production/design/zines, this site is worth a stroll. (via C/S/F)
The Future of Desktop Computing?
The BendDesk is a way cool concept: a “computer” that’s one part iPad and the other a desk. Could it be the magic device needed to digitally publish large-format coffee table books? Should we all run out and get one? Nah, but we like it … Read More →
Shout Out: Electric Literature
A necessary shout out to Electric Literature, a quarterly anthology of contemporary short fiction, for their brave and very cool foray into digital publishing. Kudos. Check them out online. Or download their free app for the iPad and iPhone .
Hyperkit
Fresh book layout and production for a generation of web and design 2.0 connoisseurs isn’t easy—but London-based graphic design (graphic desire, more like) outfit Hyperkit gives us plenty of inspirational selects to galler-ize (see above). We love their typography and identity work, full stop. All of … Read More →
When Digital and Print Work Together
Saw Mobile Art Lab’s “Phonebook” in action at MoMA’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. Pretty genius. Seems like a natural in-between step for parents who want to incorporate some of the whimsy and interactivity of digital without forgoing the … Read More →