Meanwhile #174
Pictures, pictures of pictures, pictures of things with pictures on.
In lieu of a monograph that absolutely needs to exist, I regularly crawl Farrow Design’s instagram account. Struggling to think of a designer/studio that has played a more prominent part in my musical or professional life. Great to see the original polaroid that featured on the cover of her fabulous 1999 photo book – “Her fan club members were asked to send in memorabilia which we then photographed. One day she walked in and put on a wristband from a fan and we decided on the spot that we had our cover, Kylie’s arm life size.”
Very happy to to see that High School High, one of my favourite little online museums, is still growing. No rules, no know-how, no budget – 1970s high school year book committee kids are a design force to be reckoned with.
Congratulations to Sam Coyle, whose international poster for Corey Deshon’s thoroughly unsettling Daughter won best poster award at the Wild Rivers film festival. Worth watching for it’s rather nice contribution to the “let’s chuck all of the credits at the beginning of the film” trend which seems to be fashionable again.
Big fan of Henry Sene Yee’s book designs (on more than one occasion I’ve received a brief that basically said “do what Henry does”), but it’s his photography that really gets me. Love the eery simplicity of this recent night shot. Needs to be a record cover or something.
Excellent use of Belkis Ayón’s La Cena (The Supper) by designer Alex Merto for the cover of Maya Binyam’s new novel Hangman. Quite unlike anything else out there. Discovered via Literary Hub’s monthly book cover review.