Cover and spine of Drake Douglas, Horror! by Herb Lubalin Inc. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966Outside 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, typeface designs, posters, logos, and other materials dating from 1950 to 1980.On Your Marks, 1969While he is best known for his illustrative typography and his groundbreaking...
Stephen Colbert Writes Again
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 newest book...again. Doyle designer, Ben Tousley kindly shared this teaser video Doyle Partners made to celebrate it. It is a great example of smart and playful design,...
The LunchBook
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 coated with a waterproof biopolymer film and are 100% recyclable and compostable. An added feature is having each paper plate's border based upon the traditional...
Christophe Gowans: One for The Record Books
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 they would a book, the design of an album cover was an essential and integral part of the offering. There are over 100 examples in Gowans' Flickr stream.There...
The Talented Mr. Kidd: Chip Kidd the Entertainer
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 books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the...