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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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«mitunter überleben», poetry by renowned Swiss poet Max Huwyler. 96 pages, published in November 2011 by Verlag Martin Wallimann, Alpnach, Switzerland. All text in FF Legato.
www.worldcat.org/oclc/19813982
Mikhail Anikst ( www.anikstdesign.com ) has created some of the most memorable and accomplished book designs in the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s. For the last 20 years he has worked out of his London office for some of the most prestigious clients in the world.
I recently interviewed Anikst for Interni Russia magazine. For full text of the interview see here: mbeletsky.livejournal.com/16294.html
Soseki NATSUME's "Kusa awase"
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.
two short novels, "Kofu" and "Nowake" are included.
夏目漱石《草合(くさあわせ)》初版復刻版
装幀：橋口五葉
初版1908年、復刻2005年
『坑夫』『野分』収録
外側のケースのことを、日本語では「帙(ちつ)」と呼びます。
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From Henry Cohen’s series of inventive photographic covers for Gallimard's Idées series in the 1960s and early 70s.
See Rick Poynor’s ‘Bright Idées’ on the Eye blog, and his article ‘The shape of a pocket’ in Eye 81.
This is the title I was working on this afternoon and evening. Blogged about it, too.
The interior is, finally, almost done. Lots of picky details for something that seems so simple!
Updated, 3/6/06 Put the final version of this title to disc this afternoon. Congratulations, Dan and Gayle!
Soseki NATSUME's "Sorekara"
Soseki NATSUME(1867-1916) is a Japanese author.
this is a facsimile of the first edition printed in 1910.
designed by Goyo HASHIGUCHI.
facsimile edition was printed in 2005.
夏目漱石《それから》初版復刻版
装幀：橋口五葉
初版1910年、復刻2005年
most of the binding process is done by hands of craftsmen.
多くの工程は職人による手作業。
or a bit of further information, please see:
もう少し詳しいことはこちらに：
Book cover design for Golf on The Rocks: a Journey Round Scotland's Island Courses by Gary Sutherland.
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Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig.
Book and Type Designers and Printers in Verona/Italy.
Exhibition celebrating 60 Years of the Printing House ‘Stamperia Valdonega’
"The Phoenix and the Hydra" for Harper Collins. Allison Saltzman, Art Director.
It had to have an image of a phoenix (the mythological firebird) and a hydra (the microscopic sea creature) and, it turns out, it had to have huge type. I still like the (understandably unfeasible) first round comp sans title but the third cover was loved and approved.
The title of the book was changed last minute and the design had to be taken in-house to meet deadline. Hence, my first Kill Fee.
This is the fourth coffee table book that Picturia Press has designed for German photographer, Hellmut Issels. The images appearing in this book were shot with an infrared camera in the larger temple area of the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia, as well as the temples of Angkor Thom and Bayon.