Bookslut has a nice post in their February online magazine by Heather Smith who writes the "Judging a Book By Its Cover" column. This month she covers "Books About Eating"She makes an interesting observation on the evolution of the food book market noting that they have gone from "books that were kind of eating porn, in which people traveled all over the world looking for the most perfect, exquisite loaf of bread, or the most tender baby sheep that charmingly scampers and gambols on the sun-dappled Tuscan hills and therefore is all the more delicious when it is cooked and...
Pin-Up Typography and Who Makes the Best Letters
The Epica Award is Europe's leading creative award. The 2006 Gold winner in the Publications category was Taylor Lane for "Studio Pin-Ups", a typographical conquering of the pin-up calendar.Here is Miss Bembo:As you can imagine in this day and age it was controversial, though it really has much more to do with creativity than controversy, and it was good for business creating a 25% increase in turnover from existing and new clients.and over at Typophile.com there is an ongoing discussion to come up with a list of the 20 most important type designers of all time. Guaranteed interesting thread.Why not...
Take My Library, Please
Talk about wanting to move onArtist Robin Pacific has had a tough couple of years and is doing away with her library as a way to sever herself from her past.A biblo-cleanse if you will.Pacific, a former professor of English, Canadian literature, Theatre and Women's Studies, is exorcising her library of 30 years through an exhibit/installation at the Red Head Gallery in Toronto.Details:-All the books are free-Collection of 1670 books-Includes rare, out-of-print and general books-Books are hung laundry-like from their spines on string-Each book bears the inscription: "This book is a gift for you from Robin Pacific."-Disposable cameras available to...
Ducks and the Winter Palace
We end the year with Part 3 of Book Patrol' s celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Guild of Book Workers Exhibition.From the Retrospective Exhibition:Carol J. Blin. Frieda Firzenmeyer, Carol J. Blinn, illustrator, Once Upon a Time Book Six. Warwick Press, 1992. 23 x 15.5 x .5 centimeters. Case binding covered in full Keyari paper with printed paper label on front cover. In this story, Carol’s alter ego, Frieda Fitzenmeyer, immortalizes the flying adventures of a duck named Buddy and her side-kick Percy. Blinn is the proprietor of the Warwick Press.From the Contemporary Juried Exhibit:Susan Collard. Winter Palace. Portland,...
Book Design, Bibles and Some Projections
The Book Design Review blog picks his favorite cover designs of 2006 The current issue of the New Yorker has an article on the best selling book of the year, wait make that every year- Here is a snippet:The Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year. Calculating how many Bibles are sold in the United States is a virtually impossible task, but a conservative estimate is that in 2005 Americans purchased some twenty-five million Bibles—twice as many as the most recent Harry Potter bookThere is a short post on Metroblogging San Francisco on visiting a Barnes &...