Meanwhile #147
Spies! Astromice! Sauce!
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David Pearson has won the ABCD "winner of all winners" award for his redacted Penguin Classics design of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. One of those rare covers that gets better the more weathered it becomes – always a joy seeing one of these out in the wild, the black bar scratched away by time and/or confusion.
I got the complete 1960s Batman box set for my birthday and oh boy it is glorious. How ridiculous is it that the last child-friendly live action Batman was over fifty years ago? One of many highlights: all the signs and labels, as documented by this dedicated twitter account.
“An absolute failure of marketing, an absolute triumph of aesthetics and form” – Erik Carter on the cover for Frederic Brown’s Mitkey Astromouse by Heinz “Yellow Submarine” Edelmann; another cracking post from The Book Cover Review. See also: Erik’s substack Design Harder.
Fascinating thread by director Nick Murphy on putting together A Spy Among Friends’ visual style bible. Good to see lots of Saul Leiter, Vivian Maier and Nan Goldin thrown into the mix.
Photography by Jack Davison. Goodness me.
Loving these new Heinz adverts by Rethink. Kind of risky to imply that people wouldn’t tell the difference without the iconic bottle, but I think they just about get away with it. Reminds me of Mother London’s KFC ad that featured an alphabet of imposter -FCs.
My Best Shot is one of my favourite regular features in The Guardian; an insight into photographers’ methods and minds. I particularly like the recent one on Bill Henson’s anti-portraits of opera-goers in Paris … in Melbourne.
That is all.