Meanwhile #096
The story behind the 20,000-brick Lego city that Norman Mailer built in his apartment for the cover of Cannibals and Christians. Warning: contains the words “glue them”.
How Chad Danieley created Joker’s gritty logo with wood type letterpress.
Fascinating insight into the digital-physical processes of Jeffrey Alan Love, one of my favourite illustrators working today. Involves more sock than expected.
Björk meets Arvo Pärt and other groundbreaking experimental musicians in 1997 documentary, Modern Minimalists.
“I’m reminded of Rob in High Fidelity, sentimentally sorting records autobiographically” – spring cleaning your font library can be an unexpected opportunity to get all nostalgic. My latest for Creative Review.
Fantastic collection of American Type Founders catalogues and specimens. Mostly mid-century, but some much older. A particularly nice array of borders, symbols and other typographic accessories.
The Casual Optimist – aka book design maven Daniel Wagstaff – looks back at his favourite covers from the last ten years. In summary: it’s been a great decade for books.
Elizabeth Goodspeed’s list of open access archives, historical ephemera and found materials is a fantastic resource, well worth plundering.
The impossible logos of Roger Ferriter, perhaps best known for the L’eggs branding. An ongoing exploration in three dimensionality and impossible objects.
I’ve updated my site with lots of new covers for the likes of Penguin, Verso and Oxford University Press. Have a gander.