the world of haute couture & graphic design meet in a new book graphic design for fashion, more info via dazed digital
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window shopping
yesterday morning we put up a window display in a bookshop in town for the ‘façade’ book, using the plastic letters i made for the book, and a sheet of unused and untrimmed flyers
the result is a bit messy but somehow seems to fit the idea of what the book is about, the final advertising billboard in the project (by erik kessels & hans aarsman) is coincidentally still hanging, right across the road on the university building, when this one is taken down it will be cut up and made into covers for the book too
the books are being hand numbered in a series of 500 by artist and writer ‘dick tuinder’, if you would like a copy visit ‘athenaeum’ bookshop in the centre of town, a bargain at €15…
the fractalist
nice abstract cover for a book on the recently deceased benoit mandelbrot
“illustrator-y”
…when I showed this cover to my friend Henrik Kubel, he was, to my dismay, not overwhelmed. He thought the spine was a joke, or an obvious stroke of supreme laziness (which it was). He finally said the design looked “Illustrator-y”. Whether true or not, there’s not a worse adjective he could have used — it went straight to the heart of my insecurity and I instantly knew I had to start again…
marian bantjes shares the process behind the design for the cover to her new book
printed matter
karel marten’s seminal book ‘drukwerk/printed matter’ is going into a third reprint with some new material