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Final Major Project: Mythology.
Explained a bit more at lucyplayer.blogspot.com/2010/06/final-major-project.html.
find out more about this lecture and watch the video in the kd-lounge archive.
photo: moritz profitlich
Soseki NATSUME's "Gubijinso"
Soseki NATSUME(1867-1916) is a Japanese author.
this is a facsimile of the first edition printed in 1908.
designed by Goyo HASHIGUCHI.
facsimile edition was printed in 2005.
夏目漱石《虞美人草(ぐびじんそう)》初版復刻版
装幀：橋口五葉
初版1908年、復刻2005年
gubijinso means poppy in Japanese and its flower is used as a motif for the design.
外側のケースのことを、日本語では「帙(ちつ)」と呼びます。虞美人草とはヒナゲシの別名で、その花が装幀のモチーフとなっています。
Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig.
Book and Type Designers and Printers in Verona/Italy.
Exhibition celebrating 60 Years of the Printing House ‘Stamperia Valdonega’
Desert Island book... for its length if nothing else. Mad bonkers stuff too. Wallace committed suicide so approach with caution...
«Mamsell Iversen», German translation of a slightly sinister and slightly burlesque novel by young Norwegian writer, Sigmund Løvåsen. 128 pages, hardcover, published in March 2011 by Verlag Martin Wallimann, Switzerland.
Seen here is the inside title page, title set in Hrant Papazian's Harrier typeface, smaller bits using Evert Bloemsma's FF Balance.
Picturia Press was contacted by the wonderful photographer, Kevin Stallard, to design his coffee table book, My Sierra A Personal Perspective. Mr. Stallard has been photographings the Sierra Mountains over a period of many years, capturing different perspectives of the Sierra over the different seasons. He has always desired to create a coffee table book showcasing some of his stunning images and we are thrilled we could work with him on this project.
A wedding present for Margaret of Anjou and Henry VI, The Shrewsbury Book, Rouen, 1444–45, British Library, Royal 15 E. vi, ff. 2 © British Library Board
From:
11 November 2011 > 13 March 2012
Royal Manuscripts: the Genius of Illumination
British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
For more events, see blog.eyemagazine.com/?page_id=158
Book: Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
Author: Joseph Connolly
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 2009
Book designer Giles of Osprey Design posted this cover design, which he calls "woeful". I sort of admire the 2-dimensionality, but it certainly has serious composition problems.
As an experiment, I tried to introduce some distinctions between author/title/etc and to tinker with the balance of figure to ground. The changes are headed in a direction that fundamentally undermines some of the quirkiness of the original while clearing up some of the problems. I wouldn't call it the "right" direction. And if it were, I haven't taken it far enough yet.
The version posted here, which I assume to be the final design, takes a different tack, of lightening the background to help the text stand out. I think that version went in absolutely the right direction and is much better than my experiment.
Book: Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
Author: Joseph Connolly
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 2009
複島出現在最後一期的設計美力。
這跟我分發四技二專吊車尾一樣的的意思嘛……。
不知道怎麼出現在專欄上的，應該是出版社跟聰威帶來的好運吧。而看他的暱稱不知出現幾次「複島XXX書店完售！」字眼，想必應該.....
Surruralism is a photography coffe table book design based upon and influenced by surrealism and other painting movements, such as pittura metafisica, etc., and consist of landscape, dreams, randomness and hidden worlds. The photographs of Stephen Anderson were taken over a period of several years and touch upon the cycles of time, birth, life, death, joy and sorrow.
by Mark Z. Danielewski
Taken for this slideshow on interesting uses of type in fiction:
thepenguinblog.typepad.com/the_penguin_blog/2008/05/5-in-...
Cover of the book "Looking for Janis" by Lucie Baratte
©Lucie Baratte / Looking for Janis
The book is now available worldwide in French on www.lookingforjanis.com
Le livre est maintenant disponible en français partout dans le monde sur www.lookingforjanis.com
snow white book. studio fall 2007.
the book is on the duality of fairy tales, mean to be part of a set, each book criticizing certain aspects and poking fun of classic fairy tales. commentary and criticism on classic fairy tales and how they are interpreted (or misinterpreted) in today's time.
french folding is used to create a hidden layer within the book. at first glance the book seems to just tell the version of snow white (the disney-fied version) that most people are familiar with, but hidden through the pages are commentary and criticism of this tale.
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The Wolf Book, designed in 1990
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In first grade, our teacher assigned us a project. Each student was assigned an animal, and our task was to research that animal. We compiled our research into a short, ten page book. The animal I chose was the Mongolian wild horse, and the experience was a blast. I absolutely loved the process of researching, drawing pictures and maps, and ending up with a designed object.
A few months later, during the summer of 1990, I decided to make another book about one of my favorite animals, the wolf. I spent several weeks photocopying pages from National Geographic World magazine, redrawing maps and diagrams, filling pages with some very bizarre editorial drawings, and typing paragraphs on an ancient word processor. The finished pages were then comb-bound at my father's office.
While designing my recent book, Forgetting Oildorado, I recalled the process of making The Wolf Book. I travelled to my parents house where the book resided, and flipped through it for the first time in well over a decade. It's fascinating to revisit something that was once so cherished, and to see the striking parallels between something that was designed at the age of 7 and the work that I'm currently producing.
When I made this book, I had no idea that I'd end up a graphic designer. But it seems that from a very early age, I was -- unknowingly -- well on my way.
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