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quality design publishing house ‘unit editions’ are due to release a new title: TD 63-73 which according to the blurb is
…the story of Total Design’s golden period. It contains hundreds of images from the TD archive, and in Ben Bos’s text the reader is given an ‘up close and personal’ history of a design group that remains as important today as it did when it launched in the icy winter of 1963…

i must admit that i often find some of the hero worshiping of the old TD a bit over the top, but this book does look really good and sounds like a serious overview, so my copy is already on pre-order

m / 16-02-2011 14:16 - tags: ,  

broken glass

i am currently doing a quick revamp of a book cover design i made several years back for a novel… the technique i chose was to shoot an old sepia photo through a sheet of glass covered in water droplets, which looked great but is very complicated to modify, now i understand why books covers are often so simple

m / 16-02-2011 14:04 - tags: ,  

days with my father

a really touching personal project and book from photographer philip toledano

m / 16-02-2011 10:48 - tags: , ,  

this precocious eight-year-old

the most well-read member of the oddest family around: lisa, has her own book club

m / 10-02-2011 15:32 - tags: , ,  

manuale tipografico

one of the earliest design annuals ever from 1818, by giambatissta bodoni, up close and personal…

m / 10-02-2011 15:03 - tags: ,