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Category Archives: Industry news
Retrospective
Three books, with interesting covers (2 Penguin titles and a Pelican imprint), that caught my eye in the English section of a fantastic secondhand Paris bookshop near the Sacre Coeur, and one that I rediscovered sitting at home on the bookshelf (Sphere) – I want to design for an independent publisher that commissions covers like this again…
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What a beautiful idea…
Artist Alex Varanese’s Alt1977 project imagines marketing 2010 technology to wide-eyed consumers of the 70s. So get ready for: the Pocket Hi-Fi (“Like a party in your pocket. But not in a weird way”); the MobileVoxx (“Stop missing calls. Start interrupting movies”) and the Microcade 3000 (“A child’s toy that can guide nuclear warheads”). Continue reading
Book and cover
The conservative tastes of over-mighty retailers have resulted in generic jackets that say nothing about their contents Continue reading