Survival Training – Colson Whitehead, author of Zone One, on watching horror flicks and b-movies, in science fiction edition of The New Yorker: It was survival training. “A Clockwork Orange,” w...
Bill Moggridge, founder of design company IDEO and current director of the Smithonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, discusses design and the Cooper-Hewitt’s collection: Foll...
In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing and author of Visual Complexity, talks about networks and the challenges of mapping a complex world: Follow The Casual Op...
You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack — Tom Gauld has a Tumblr (The title is a reference to this of course). Legacy Issues — Stephen Page, chief executive of Faber & Faber, writ...
Krazy Kriticism — Sarah Boxer on George Herriman’s long-running newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat, at the LA Review of Books: [E]ven 95 years ago the truth was as loud and clear as a pair o...
On the latest episode of Radiolab, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore the science of colour (in their own inimitable and meandering style): Radiolab: Colors mp3 (pictured above: Interaction of C...
Françoise Mouly, co-founder of RAW magazine and art editor at The New Yorker, talks about her book Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See with Leonard Lopate on WNYC: WNYC: New Y...
Chris Ware’s astonishing cover for Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature by Philip Nel. See the full thing i...
“I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the colour, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls ...
The excellent Art of the Title looks at the opening sequences to Anatomy of a Murder and Bunny Lake is Missing by Saul Bass. Just Getting Started — Bill Moran on the Hamilton Wood Type and Prin...
Another charming illustration by Grant Snider for the New York Times Book Review. It appears alongside a review of John Sutherland’s Lives of the Novelists. Nicely done, sir. Nicely done. Follo...
It Will All Be Over Before You Know It… – A six-page, six-chapter comic by the brilliant Richard Sala (a must for fans of Edward Gorey, I’d say). Something Lost — Edmund de Wa...
Typesetting is a new documentary series that explores the relationship between designers, their work, and the cities in which they live. In the first episode designer Elisabeth Kopf talks about livin...
Lyra Kilston reviews Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design for the LA Review of Books. The Well-Made Book — An interesting article by Michael Agresta on how printed books, and their design, are ...
Freelance illustrator and paper artist Kevin Stanton recently contacted me about his book illustrations for the new Signature Shakespeare editions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. Art directed by Ash...
In a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation, design historian Steven Heller talks about design and his recent book 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design with Debbie Millman on Design Matters: Desi...
Under Paul Buckley’s art direction at Penguin US, UK-based illustrator Matt Taylor has produced two more stunning John le Carré covers. The type and design is by Gregg Kulick. You can see the previou...
Cover illustration by Adrian Tomine for the Japanese edition of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, published by Shinchosha Publishing. The Darkness — Norwegian cartoonist Jason profiled in The Na...
This Precarious Balancing Act — Maud Newton talks to Alison Bechdel, author of (the astonishingly good) Fun Home, about her new graphic novel Are You My Mother?. Fascinating stuff: I feel like ...
A few weeks ago, I mentioned Stuart Wilson’s unsettling redesigns for the Picador (UK) editions of the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn. Here’s the full the set: Follow The Casu...
Sturm und Drang – Author Nick Harkaway (Angelmaker and the forthcoming The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World) on Amazon and the publishing industry for The Guardian: The most thundero...
Award-winning director Woof Wan-Bau has created a wonderfully weird animated short for the launch of the Penguin English Library: (via Ace Jet 170) Follow The Casual Optimist on Twitter | Facebook | ...
A busy week for John Gall, Art Director at Anchor/Vintage: he unveiled a beautiful new website, and his design for the paperback boxed set of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (pictured above). My Q & A wi...
Insufficiently Bored — An essay by author Toby Litt on technology and reading (and writing) at Granta: Proposition: ‘The human race is no longer sufficiently bored with life to be distracted by...
The new episode of PBS Arts documentary series Off Book takes a look at the art of the title sequence. The designers of the titles for Blue Valentine, Mad Men, The Pacific, Se7en, and Zombieland disc...
I first saw the work of Nigel Peake in his book In The Wilds, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2011. Collecting Nigel’s beautiful and meditative drawings and watercolours of rural ...
A stunning new cover for James Joyce’s The Dubliners by German designer Apfel Zet (which reminds me — in a good way — of Tony Meeuwissen’s Woodbine-inspired cover for Billy Liar pub...
A.S. Byatt by reviews Peter Carey’s latest novel The Chemistry of Tears for the Financial Times. Also at the FT: Jennie Erdal, author of The Missing Shade of Blue, on philosophical novels: The ...
“I thoroughly enjoy the sound of the machines turning, and seeing the type come out is a joy” A really wonderful short film about 80 year-old Lewis Mitchell who has been maintaining Monotype casting ...
Jennifer Heuer is a book designer based in Brooklyn. Formerly a designer at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, she now runs her own studio out of the Pencil Factory. Jen’s striking inkblot...
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