This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completion.
Designing covers for celebrities … from the sixth issue of wonderful book cover design magazine Spine, which is out next week.
Cooper Hewitt just put 200,000 items from their collection online. More of this sort of thing please, museums.
Students and scribblers have loved them for over a century – why is the basic marble notebook made by so many brands still so popular? Weirdly, they're not such a big thing the UK. Not sure why.
A whirlwind tour through the colorful history of comic book lettering.
Modernist cover-lovers, it's well worth spending some time on Bernd Kuchenbeiser's A Good Book blog – a fine companion to his book 61 books with black type on white cover.
Oh nothing, just thousands of gorgeous Polish book covers.
“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead.” – Neil Gaiman on why we read and what books do for the human experience.
Watership Down and the power of not-quite-appropriate children’s books.
The perils of letting the client see behind the curtain. The work that goes into any design project is yours and yours alone. Unless, of course, your client asks to have a quick peek at it. Well, they were warned …