Neil Kellerhouse is responsible for some of my favorite recent movie posters and Criterion covers.
Tapmates’ Robin Raszka redesigns Instagram for fun.
Beautiful detail in this concept and design for the 76 Synthesizer iPad app by Jonas Eriksson.
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An advertorial publication from McSweeney’s editor-at-large John Warner and The Morning News founding editor Andrew Womack that presents paid advertisements for books that pass muster with John and his team of readers. Sharp design by Jason Santa Maria.
Most important things happen at a table. Food, friends, discussion, ideas, work, peace talks, and war plans. It is okay to romanticize things a little bit every now and then: it gives you hope.
— Take a few minutes to read Frank Chimero’s advice to a graphic design student in its entirety. Plenty of sage advice and wit. I like the closing line: “This about sums up everything I know.”
The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision. It is not simultaneously restful and lively, like a field full of flowers, or the face of a thinking human being, or a well-made typographic page. And we read the screen the way we read the sky: in quick sweeps, guessing at the weather from the changing shapes of clouds, of like astronomers, in magnified small bits, examining details.
— Robert Bringhurst, writing in The Elements of Typographic Style, which you’ve all read, right? (via Frank Chimero)
Yesterday I wrapped up work on Coming & Crying, the Kickstarter-powered first release from Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell’s Glass Houses Press. The perfect cover photograph is by Nikola Tamindzic, and I handled design duties inside and out.
Oh, also — Dolly is a hell of a typeface.
The feature pages on Grain & Gram are remarkable.
