Spine Out

2/22/10

Heads Up

You know the work. You love the work. Don't miss the talk. The Heads of State promise an evening of posters, books, illustrations, broken pencils, heavy metal guitar techniques, marriage counseling and the secrets to everlasting creative collaboration. April 1 at the Museum of Arts and Design.

2/18/10

More Book Art

Article by Peter Terzian on artists who use the printed book as inspiration for their art.

Below: Leanne Shapton, Duncan Hannah, and Richard Baker

2/17/10

My "Other" Job

Well, one of my other jobs. This one for The Other Press.

2/15/10

The Founding Our Fathers

The New York Times Magazine asked a few designers to insert Jesus into scenes from American history. Illustrations accompanied an article about an influential Texas school board's attempts to get more Christianity into public school text books. Here's mine:

2/12/10

Cooper was here.

Was thinking about starting up a blog dedicated to inscribed books. But guess what? There already is one. Shocking. Still might though.

2/5/10

Lustig wear

Seems to be for a good cause.

The only book related garment I've ever owned is a t-shirt with this on the front:

… all gables and wiggles

Short piece on Megan Wilson's redesign of Howard's End for Vintage Classics.

2/4/10

PKD

Selections from a huge and varied archive of Philip K. Dick covers.

A collection we published a few years ago:

2/2/10

Amazon v. Macmillan

Wherein the retailer acts like a dick and a publisher finally grows some balls.

Have to admit Amazon saying "Macmillan has a monopoly over their own books." is the second best (and stupidest) thing I've seen or read this year. Here's the best thing.

And speaking of balls (stay with it).

2/1/10

I've come full circle.

The first book cover I ever "designed":

The most recent cover I designed:

1/29/10

PMS 194 and PMS 116

Michael Bierut on one of the (if not the) most famous book covers of all time.

UPDATE: Just pulled this image randomly from the web and it ended up being Henry Sene Yee's personal copy.

Steven Heller on the cover.

1/28/10

Win $1000

Book cover design contest for In the Name of the Rose.

1/25/10

Why Pay More?

Art utilizing old book components by the great Gary Taxali (do I detect some rejected book cover comps in there?) Not terribly expensive either. Get thee to Toronto immediately.

Worked with him on the cover for Jonathan Lethem's Men and Cartoons some whiles back:

1/22/10

Found at the train station

I don't particularly remember an appearance by Mick Avory in this novel (though I think Dave Davies' hat may have had a few lines of dialogue). Its been a while...