A joy to hear Vignelli discuss how he designs books.
Vignelli Associates’ 1966 NYC Subway graphics are wonderful but the Transit Authority needs to rehire Vignelli to clean up and simplify way finding today. American Airlines sadly redisigned his logo. Vignelli and his wife have added inspired design to so many things; I’m fond of their glass designs for Ciga.
(thanks/via: The Fox Is Black and Vignelli Associates)
This book list might be helpful for someone on your holiday gift list.
NY Time’s op-ed columnist, Paul Krugman, always pens good reads. I’ve wondered (more like worried) a lot about the move toward anti-fact on the right.
Krugman links to a new book by Chris Mooney titled The Republican Brain linking conservativism to a tendancy toward authoritarian inclinations. Sounds interesting.
Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
(thanks/via: make, aughingsquid, NPR)
It’s a Book by Lane Smith — Book Trailer (by MacmillanChildrens)
I love this book! Not just for kids though.
Good Books “Metamorphosis” (by Antfood)
A Kafka/Hunter S. Thompson psychedelic mashup promoting Good Books, an online bookseller which providing support to Oxfam.
Client: Good Books
Agency: String Theory
Director: Buck
Music & Sound Design: Antfood
Steal Like An Artist Book Trailer (by Austin Kleon)
Steal Like An Artist, a new book on creativity.
(via/thanks: BrainPickings where there is a more detailed review)
(thanks/via: curiositycounts)
Really nice graphic credits on this book preview trailer for Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker.
It is news to me that publishers made book trailers like this, where have I been?
The Man Cave Book By: Jeff Wilser (author of “The Maxims of Manhood”) and Michael H. Yost (Creator of ManCaveSite.org)
No comment but I had no idea!
(thanks/via ManCaveSite.org)
