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Enough with all of my yakety-yak— Am I right people?This uns printed on newsprint, innit?———————————————————
I posed this question on Twitter, and nobody proffered a solution—So I pose it to you now here:What important textual secret is embedded in the phonetic spelling of Lolitas name? Anyone?I only saw it...
And speaking of Jean Paul Sartre and Roland Barthes... --------------- Did you know that Sartre played the piano? No, me neither. (Evidently there is a video of him muddling through some Chopin and D...
(Three new covers)To begin with—what one doesnt see, in this photo, is proper scale.To put aside metaphoric scale for the time being, Sartre was reputedly only four feet eleven inches tall. A real sh...
“I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledg...
On Late Style--------------------“O but they say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony”—Richard II--------------------Is there such a thing as “Late style” in Design?----------...
“Anyone who doesnt read Cortázar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He wo...
Roland Barthes on the "functions" of photography (I think this describes the work a book jacket does as well):"To inform, to represent, to surprise, to cause to signify, to provoke desire...
This morning, on the way to work, I read and enjoyed this short piece by Leon Wieseltier on libraries and the physical book.Leon Wieseltier is a fine stylist and an astute observer (frankly: in the p...
Thanks to Nathaniel Bellows for the heads-up on the displayThe Indies get it.The above photo is of Book Culture on Broadway—one of my favorite uptown browsing spots.My favorite uptown browsing spot u...
Another Die-cut! This one from the wonderful Matt Dorfman.Textured stock, foil-stamp, matte pre-printed case.———————————————————
On occasion, I use a freelancer for a jacket at Pantheon. On occasion, that freelancer happens to be frighteningly talented.* Which is to say: Paul Sahre. Here is his gorgeously simple and clever wor...
Next talk Im doing will be at McNally Jackson...© Yvonne BrooksThis one is pure enjoyment for me. Ill be speaking off the cuff (no pesky PowerPoint files to prepare) with a good friend (fellow musici...
THE DESIGN OF CRIME at The Vera Institute of Justice (which turns out is not this place). There might still be space for you. Free admission, but seating is limited.For info follow this link.&n...
For some reason every Pantheon freelancer working on the last list wanted to employ a die-cut as part of their proposed jacket design. We accommodated (almost) everyone (can you believe it?!). Finish...
The first of a couple of speaking events in NYC this winter: The Design of Crime: One Mans Journey Through a Graphic Life of Murder and Justice.What does crime look like? How do we visually represent...
I remember, years ago, one fall evening, driving back from Vermont on i95 south, my wife in the passenger seat strobed by the oncoming traffic, my two children, still young enough to be in kid carsea...
(I know. Steve Jobs OWNS that expression.)In any case, immediately after publishing that last post, this thing below arrived in the mail. Its my good pal Jason Fulfords contribution to EXPOSURE magaz...
Ive been writing a bit.Not for this blog—but, rather, for various extra-curricular projects Ive been juggling.It occurs that I should post some excerpts from the various pieces here on Jacket Mechani...
Steve Jobs was a designer first, CEO second."His focus on the little things like the space between different letter combinations was a constant from the development of the Macintosh to the iPhone...
As a postlude to that last entry:Sam Potts designed covers for Stephen Jay Goulds oeuvre in February for Harvard University Press. See what i meant about a collective unconscious? Either that, or thi...
Egregiously late to the party, as ever, but:Writers No One Reads Well, not exactly no one, but few people anyway. Case in point: Did you know that the son of G.E. Moore (my favorite of the Canta...
Design Bureau Magazine recently asked me to participate in a wee interview- go pick up a copy ifn youre interested. They also devoted six pages to some of my music designs (designs for records and cd...
Not that you care, but, all these outtakes were killed by yours truly. They were never shown. So they are more sketches than killed covers.———————————————————
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