Keegan Meegan
I am truly intrigued by the prints and recent book by Keegan Wenkman. Keegan lives and works out of Portland, Cascadia and was recently featured on FPO. Keegan’s book Codex Viginti Sex focuses on the number 26. “The first book Codex Viginti Sex is based on the repetition and context of the number 26 in my life.” I know how you feel, the number 22 or 222 is always throwing itself into my life. 0 Read More
Day Ruining Invoices
Being a freelance designer can be a task. Especially when it comes to direct contact with your clients, well Jessica Hische has a fabulous outlet for all that pent-up anger. She’s created a notepad of Day-Ruining Invoices which will be available to purchase soon. So when you’re having a bad day and need to get it off your mind, write that pesky client an invoice, seal it in an envelope, and don’t ever send it. Unless you don’t... Read More
Spencerian
If you are a follower of my Twitter page, you probably already know that I found a copy of the Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship printed in 1867 in a local antique shop. I am 39 pages into the book and some of the writing is certainly hard to read – I’m so used to modern-style writing. But the most wonderful part of the book was not what was written on the pages, but samples of someone’s practice left in the book. I found a few... Read More
Grit City Inc.
I just magically stumbled upon Grit City Inc., an independent publisher releasing books that they would buy. Based in Philadelphia here’s a great quote from their site – “Our books are a tangible, beautiful expression of people and their stories. GritCityInc. is all about community love – must be our Philly roots coming through.” I’m really interested in the soon-to-be-released Tatted. Cited as revealing the emotion... Read More
Creative Spaces
This book just caught my eye over at Laurence King Publishing, Ltd. and is officially on my wish list. Am I the only nerd who bookmarks publishers and browses them for good books? Creative Space: Urban Homes of Artists and Innovators is a book about the creative folks who are generally DIY who’s interiors strongly reflect pop culture. Written by Francesca Gavin, Visual Arts Editor at ‘Dazed & Confused’ magazine. 0 Read More
4000 Alphabet & Letter Motifs
I received an email about pre-ordering this book today and thought it might be interesting. Sometimes looking through tons of fonts on a computer can be taxing on the eyes so I tend to like looking through books. 4000 Alphabets & Letter Motifs: A Sourcebook features “a lavish treasury of elegantly rendered typographic and calligraphic alphabets from the familiar Roman letters to scripts inspired by Runic and Cyrillic writing—along with... Read More
Typographic Desk Reference
Introducting The Typographic Desk Reference. I have to admit, you probably can’t have too many typographic books around when you need one. Any one will do but this looks like the have-all for typography nuts like me. The foreword is by Ellen Lupton, and if you wanted information on typography she is the go-to gal for it. She calls it the “Ultimate tool for the type geek.” I won’t fill you up with details because you can get... Read More
Visual Aid from Draught
I just saw the work by Draught Associates and needed to share their designs for Visual Aid, a book designed and compiled in-house. Cool graphics and looks like it’s a fun book! 0 Read More
A Week in Your Life
I.D. and Moleskine teamed up to give us “A Week in Your Life”, featuring renowned designers to promote the new Folio collection. The project includes work from the following artists: Giuseppe Amato Marian Bantjes Yves Béhar James Biber Ayse Birsel Louise Campbell Claesson Koivisto Rune Han Feng Seth Godin Michael Graves Alfredo Häberli Jessica Helfand Linda Tischler Oh, and did you know that April 27 was World Graphic Design Day?... Read More
Pop Up on Video
This has got to be one of the coolest music videos ever, it features two large-sized pop-up books that tells a story to go with the song. Adorable! The song is by Lisa Hannigan from her new album Sea Sew and the pop up books were created by Jamie Hannigan (a relative to the singer?) and Maeve Clancy. Thanks to Design Sponge 0 Read More
