Dust Jackets by Lubalin January 20, 2013

Cover and spine of Drake Douglas, Horror! by Herb Lubalin Inc. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966 Outside of graphic design and typography circles few have heard of Herb Lubalin but inside these disciplines he is legendary.In 1984 Cooper Union in New York City opened The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography to honor the life and work of Lubalin. The core collection includes an extensive archive of his work, including promotional, editorial and advertising design,…

Stephen Colbert Writes Again October 4, 2012

Media meister, Stephen Colbert, released his third book this week, America Again, now in 3D. In a recent book review he wrote for GQ, he offered to give it “three thumbs up out of four stars”. This is from someone who also suggested the GQ editor use “Weepy Garamond” for the opening sentence, “It’s no secret that America is hurting”.I should have known the great American design team at Stephen Doyle Partners was responsible for designing Stephen Colbert’s…

The LunchBook August 21, 2012

Snack on this: An international recipe book with “paper plate” pages to eat on. LunchBook is designed by Italian design team Sebastiano Ercoli and Alessandro Garlandini for the Expo Milano 2015 world exposition dedicated to food, sustainability and nutrition. This culinary world book contains international recipes encouraging the visitor to use its pages as plates and taste the many dishes from the Expo Milano stands. Once a page is used it can be easily removed. The pages have been…

Christophe Gowans: One for The Record Books May 8, 2012

The premise for Christophe Gowans’ project, The Record Books, is a simple one, “If best-selling albums had been books instead…” Gowans, a graphic designer and art director by trade, transforms well-known albums into imaginary book designs. In many ways contemporary book design, especially cover design, can trace its roots to the graphic design of album covers from the 1960’s and 70’s, though one might not be propelled to buy an album by its cover as…

The Talented Mr. Kidd: Chip Kidd the Entertainer April 5, 2012

There has been no greater influence on the field of book design in the last 50 years than the work of Chip Kidd but who knew how entertaining Mr Kidd could be. In his recent appearance at TedTalks, Kidd shows that he can move like Jagger and dress with the best of them. He also has a little Robin Williams in him. Here’s what Ted has to say about his talk: “Chip Kidd doesn’t judge…