Posters & books

Posy Simmonds in her studio

This is from 2008 but always good to see how someone like Simmonds crafts her work.

karel martins studio

Decode memoir of Jay-Z

art of looking sideways

D&AD stuff 5

more D&AD stuff

scamps book

Simon's book on Advertising.

Great American Writing

Paul Virilio's Terre Natale at the Cartier Foundation

Old post but I have been looking for this book for a while.

British Library agrees a deal with Amazon on ebooks

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Music:
Mark E. Smith reads the football results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKvBGU01V44

Kurt Cobain feedback over William Burroughs story:
http://www.songfacts.com/category:songs_inspired_by_books.php

Vanity, the self and narcissm on the web:
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/

Great Wall of Books in Macau:
http://www.welltheatre.com/Gallery1.htm

Vesalius's 16th-century anatomy treatise

Newspaper Club

This is such a good idea, since Mute was printed on the FT press back in the early 90s I have always wanted a way to do small run newspaper print jobs. Great use of post digital.

richter book cover paintings

library book - 2008

Hand collated book by Dexter Sinister and Duncan Hamilton. Using a Riso RP3700 printer. "The resulting loosely collated book was handed out to the attendees at a conference about contemporary art book publishing at the Museum of Modern art in NYC." Duncan Hamilton Uses of Literature.

...18

The always good, if sometimes long winded DotDotDot, by Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey). No. 18 out now.

Penguin stories online

Thanks to Nic for this Penguins 'We Tell Stories' using google maps, twitter and blogs.

It certainly creates added depth to the reading.
Some designers are doing a similar thing but with fly posters. See CR blog for details.

Muriel Cooper

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In a design industry still dominated by men one person stood out to break the cliche. Muriel Cooper. Her mitpress logo is for me one of the best logos ever designed. Taking 7 book spines and moving 1 upwards and 1 downwards is perfect in every way. But as always going beyond the printed world; it is a bar code that means zero as well.

Further work producing books by the designer was the start of what we now know as desktop publishing. Her 1994 work 'word landscapes' made me move into digital design. A decade on designers only started to realise this navigation through flash using action script.

She is a much looked over genius well before her time but approached design from workshop 'make it yourself' practice. As mentioned in the previous post David Reinfurt's article and work on her is a good start in showing the recognition Copper's work deserves.

David's MIT pages

Beauty unrealized roma books

The ever excellent ROMA publications. dot dot dot and ROMA are publishing consistently good work. And for 7 Euros a book.

This edition reminds me of the late Muriel Cooper's work from the Visible Language Workshop at the MIT. Most of the 60s, 70s work was produced on electronic typewriters and was a pre cursor to the desktop publishing of the 1980s. There is an excellent article in dot dot dot 15 by David Reinfurt.

A full post on Coppers work to come.
More links for David Reinfurt's work here
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Art Directors Club Muriel Cooper