Meanwhile #051
I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham.
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 completeness.
“I never thought it would happen / with me and the girl from Clapham” – excellent piece by the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon on post-punk's golden age of lyrical storytelling.
Alex Gorosh tries to see all of the art in London in one day. For some reason, the involves a trip to the Natural History Museum.
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks to It's Nice That about his most-loved books, and to Dezeen about how museums are filling the void left by print magazines.
Vintage cookbook spot illustrations. These need to make a comeback.
Ali Almossawi has kindly made a big infographic showing the imprint-tendrils of the big five publishers. Chances are, Penguin Random House owns you and you don't even know it.
Fabulous illustrator, cartoonist and author (not to mention my son's official portrait artist) Simone Lia has a new website, complete with details and sketches from her new book, They Didn't Teach THIS In Worm School.
Flying Eye founder Sam Arthur talks to Creative Review about Professor Astro Cat, the Hilda series and making beautiful books for curious children.
Banning books in prison is not just wrong, it's counterproductive.
“All of this would suggest that the leadership of publishing corporations should already be treating senior design directors as strategic business partners” – Brian LaRossa on the evolutionary fitness of the publishing industry.
Chip Kidd appears on the History of Batman podcast to discuss his journey into becoming a modern book jacket designer, his life-long fandom of the caped crusader, and the amazingness of 1960s Bat-Manga.