Last night was the second anniversary of KERNSPIRACY. Both Yves Bodson and Ritzy Periwinkle were kind enough to share links to the photos they took of, among other things, me stuffing my fat cakehole with delicious devil’s food. I’ve got about a quarter of the damn thing sitting on my kitchen counter right now.
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If you’re a designer and you haven’t lusted after Wacom’s insane LCD-based Cintiq 21UX tablet, then you probably just haven’t seen it yet. For most of us, the $2,500 asking price was the deal killer, but it looks like they’re releasing a 12″ version come November and it’s likely to sport a much more agreeable [...]
Robert Bringhurst’s magnum opus The Elements of Typographic Style should be required reading for anyone who even thinks about working with type. Applying the principles that Bringhurst clearly and eloquently articulates in Elements is what makes the difference between typing and typesetting, and knowing that difference is what makes one a designer. I’m not the [...]
Since I’m totally self-absorbed, I thought I’d start a new series to suggesting books that I think any designer would be a fool not to own. First at bat is Basics Design: Print and Finish. From the publisher’s description:
How can printing and finishing techniques be used to enhance graphic design? Basics Design: Print and Finish [...]
Embarrassingly, I’m familiar with Marian Bantjes name only because she’s very involved with SpeakUp, but I never really connected her name with her work until I was looking through a Fox River Sundance promo featuring her that’s been sitting on my desk for months.
Um, holy crap. I think it just changed my life. Check her [...]
Here is a collection of vintage Penguin Books covers that will make you wet your pants. This set was put together in response to the totally must-have Penguin by Design: A Cover Story by Phil Baines (softcover, hardcover).
I found this via BoingBoing, who also recently linked a long interview with Penguin art director Paul Buckley [...]
