There’s only make
Harland Miller, Corita Kent and The Perimeter
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New cover for Dalkey Archive Press – Reprise, collecting three volumes of short stories by Nicholas Delbanco. That’s Ida In An Interior With Piano by Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi and isn’t it lovely?
“I’m into the idea of making stuff that doesn’t look like a book cover … something that doesn’t look like it fits perfectly in” – Steve Leard’s Cover Meeting podcast is back with a second season of talks with book cover designers, kicking off with one of my favourites, Jack Smyth, talking about working with art directors as a freelancer, the growing scourge of design-by-committee and why we don’t need more quotes on covers.
The new Harland Miller exhibition at York Art Gallery is rather fabulous. Can’t go wrong with massive painted typography.
Twenty years after the publication of the excellent Penguin by Design, David Pearson looks back at some of the box sets he and Phil Baines collected for inclusion in the book.
MUBI Notebook’s Adrian Curry talks to poster legend Kenny Gravillis about his career, his favourite work and his enduring creative relationship with Spike Lee.
“There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make” – the Casual Optimist shares a 2021 short documentary about pop art nun Corita Kent, a fine excuse to revisit her Immaculate Heart College art department rules.
Somebody needs to turn Bill Yates’ 1972/3 photos of Florida’s Sweetheart Roller Rink into a movie.
Clare Skeats has designed The Perimeter, chronicling Quintin Lake’s five-year photographic odyssey around the coast of mainland Britain between 2015 and 2020.
Loving this cutaway house illustrations appreciation post. The first rule of publishing: if your book doesn’t have endpaper maps, it should at least have a cutaway house illustration.
Between 1966 and 1970, a San Francisco-area photographer captured thousands of images documenting civil rights demonstrations, Vietnam War protests, Grateful Dead concerts and so much more. The problem is that no one knows who the photographer is.
That is all.
His name is Ignatius Maximus Anonymous.