BLUE & TAN, a twitter photo convergence
today, I scan from @katehrmr
Day at the beach. from @susanorlean
The Great Gatsby turns 87 years old today. We should all look so good at that age.
More Lo-Res Books are shelved here.
NYC pay phones repurposed as book drops.
A lovely project by architect and designer John Locke.
(Not to be confused with…)
update: There’s an interview with Locke up on Atlantic Cities.
Card folder, digitized in high contrast black-and-white.
From the back matter of The Water Supply, Sewerage, and Plumbing of Modern City Buildings by William Paul Gerhard (1909).
Page torn, perhaps by Google Books employee. The image of p. 71 is of a whole page, but after the leaf is turned, there is a tear in the image of p. 72.
From Narrative of the Revival of Religion at Kilsyth, Cambuslang, and Other Places, by James Robe (1840).
Happy to see all the great attention my office-mate John Caserta is getting for his Modern Pictograms set. Free download, and a neat slider specimen action too.
Earlier this month, I caught Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective at SFMOMA before it closed. The whole thing was amazing—Behold! By the entrance! The original verb list!—but I was particularly struck by these untitled roller drawings from 1973.
Amazing how everything looks like a succession of turning pages if you look at them right.
The show opens at the Menil in March.
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What we talk about when we talk about type and we don’t know what we’re talking about.
The Blanding of America, in Adweek.
In which McCain used an “optimum font” in 2008, and Gotham is “a sans serif font the Republicans have used often in the past.”
Gotham or Verlag?
ROOSTERS, a convergence
White Leghorn Rooster
#3 on LIFE Magazine’s own list of 20 Worst Covers
“In LIFE’s 75 years, this is the only cover not to feature the distinctive logo in the upper left corner. Not surprising: If your cover story was as newsy, sexy, and controversial as “White Leghorn Rooster,” you’d hide your logo, too.”
and
The Push Pin Graphic
by Seymour Chwast
designed by Martin Venezky
THE DILEMMA OF FOOD
a convergence
The Bounty of Food
#6 on LIFE Magazine’s own list of 20 Worst Covers.
“Pears and onions, raspberries and cabbage, artichokes and grapes… all lovingly arranged against a pitch-black cover. Behold, the days before food stylists!”
and
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
cover design by Darren Haggar
So Many Dots, a convergence…
Book Design by Sian Elin Thomas
&
Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart
Designer: Rodrigo Corral
