Graphic Design Notes

2011-08-30T20:12:00.000-07:00

Exquisite Corpse designed posters by Job Wouters & Yvo Sprey via ButDoesItFloat

2011-07-13T18:42:00.000-07:00

Vintage British Wrestling Posters via Maraid's Flickr.

2011-04-26T08:50:00.000-07:00

Satanic book design via Yimmy's.

2011-03-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

Via Jillian Tamaki's Sketchblog.

2011-03-15T15:25:00.000-07:00

2011-02-14T07:37:00.000-08:00

Via BibliOdyssey

2011-01-04T12:13:00.000-08:00

Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes

2010-09-12T22:43:00.000-07:00

These Indian textile patterns via BibliOdyssey are perfect as endpapers:

2010-09-07T19:24:00.000-07:00

Custom generated map stationary via mapenvelope.com. I think it would be cleverer to reverse it so that the map became the address on the outside.

2010-08-22T20:51:00.001-07:00

Hi-Fi from bante on Vimeo.

2010-06-29T20:26:00.001-07:00

Via the amazingness that is Yimmy's Yayo

2010-06-29T20:14:00.000-07:00

They're not but it would be cool to produce an ongoing series that you would continutally rebind using the same clip:

Via Woods & Weather

2010-06-10T11:43:00.000-07:00

Via Brigada Creativa

2010-04-19T19:33:00.000-07:00

2010-04-19T18:32:00.000-07:00

"So You Need A Typeface" flowchart via JulianHansen.com

2010-04-19T15:35:00.000-07:00

Swedish encyclopedia of animals called Djurens värld ("The World of Animals") printed in 1963-64 via Musselsoppans Vänner.

2010-04-15T00:35:00.000-07:00

Hoefler & Frere-Jones' advice on mixing fonts.

2010-04-04T23:43:00.000-07:00

Hacking a spinning LP into a zoetrope via We Love You So

2010-04-01T22:55:00.001-07:00

We Are Animals font via behance.net

2010-03-31T22:12:00.000-07:00

Via Gajitz.com

2010-03-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

Via adsoftheworld.com

2010-02-27T13:47:00.000-08:00

Via ignant.de

2010-02-27T12:05:00.000-08:00

Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney from Jim Tierney on Vimeo.

2010-02-26T17:10:00.000-08:00

Via UN/STAGE's 150 Creative Movie Posters.

2010-02-26T09:09:00.000-08:00

'Notebook' [of some sort]
Embroidered silk
Binder unknown, 1775 (France)

'Das Unheimliche Buch'
Morocco leather
Bound by Karl Ebert, 1914

'New Testament'
Silver metal on black leather
Binder unknown, 1710

Book bindings via BibliOdyssey.

2010-02-08T16:09:00.001-08:00

Examples of Chris Ware's Papercraft. Via acmenoveltyarchive.org

2010-01-29T20:28:00.000-08:00

Via Jim Tierney's blog.

2010-01-29T17:27:00.000-08:00

This book has it all. Via Yewknee.com

2010-01-27T15:12:00.000-08:00

Detachable bookmarks on inside flap accentuate cover concept. Via icoeye.

2010-01-27T15:03:00.000-08:00

Great use of infographics to explain music. More at Michael Deal's Charting the Beatles project site.

2010-01-25T10:05:00.000-08:00

Zoomable map via thezoomablemap.com.

2009-12-28T16:38:00.001-08:00

Victorian infographics via BibliOdyssey.

2009-12-09T12:25:00.000-08:00

From the publisher:

When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five—the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books—has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative—dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality—affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.

Photos of the handwritten index cards accompany the text. They are perforated and can be removed and rearranged, as the author likely did when he was writing the novel.

Random House via We Love You So.

2009-12-02T20:33:00.000-08:00

Andrew Zuckerman's Bird book looked fun to design.

2009-12-02T16:42:00.000-08:00

Glandular font via BoingBoing.

2009-12-02T16:39:00.000-08:00

I'd really like to see a lot more papercraft used for illustration:

2009-11-19T08:50:00.000-08:00

Via Kanye West's blog.

2009-11-17T23:22:00.000-08:00

Two covers for Capote's true crime masterpiece via The Book Design Review. They make mention of the second cover having a removable sticker. Let's hope it's the bar code on the spine. I would not want to have that staring back from my bookshelf!

2009-11-17T11:13:00.000-08:00

I just learned about the Interrobang and the Irony Mark.

2009-11-09T15:08:00.000-08:00

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Everyone take a breath. I think the bottom up lighting of the skull makes it. Designed by Michael Paulkner via Dangerous Minds via Information is Beautiful.

2009-11-09T11:01:00.000-08:00

Animation by Donato Sansone via Wooster Collective. I tried to make a book of the Voyages of Sinbad in this style but decided that it should be painted in a Persian miniature style instead of my poorly made sketches so of course I abandoned it.

2009-11-09T11:00:00.001-08:00

Cropped barcode on the back cover of Huck magazine via We Love You So. I think that as long as you have at least a quarter-inch of bar code visible you could pull this off.

2009-11-05T14:36:00.000-08:00

Part of a series on typenesting.tumblr.com.

2009-11-05T14:26:00.000-08:00

From Justin Blyth's absolutely amazing image blog.

2009-11-05T14:22:00.001-08:00

From Thomas de Bruin's Flickr.

2009-11-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

2009-11-02T09:59:00.000-08:00