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‘3000 photographs (-ish), 35 books, 2 months’

The Complex of All of These, written by Abigail Uhteg, was letterpress printed at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.

Music by Ratatat.

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‘Gradually, I realized that the books I had put off reading for so long all had covers that screamed: ‘Pulp me! Pulp me!”

Joe Queenan looks at Huckleberry Finn, Elijah Wood (pictured, with Courtney B. Vance), Gatsby, Doctor Faustus, Death of a Salesman – and how a BAD cover design can ruin a perfectly good book.

NYT essay here.

What to do about an ugly cover: 1. Brown bag it; 2. Reverse it; 3. Try spandex; 4. Use house paint; 5. Duct tape it; 6. Tear it off

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I Love You magazine #3. The Secretary Issue. Details here.

Found via Coute que Coute

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The work of Alexandre Farto aka Vhils.

Found via Hello Typo

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Selected by the always incredible Paste Magazine. See all of em here.

Click on images for jump/description.

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‘My new band and our first CD cover. yay!
note: we have no members or songs at this time.’

Design by Victoria Arriaga.

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Packaging for The Skull Defekts by designer Thomas Ekelund

Will recorded music survive the next ten years? Article at CNET.

My take: Sounds a bit like the font industry. Passions fuel incredible work; what the article misses: It’s not always about the money.

Though without decent income, things can scale back drastically.

How much one is willing to starve for their art has great relevance right now.

Article found via theSTART’s Jamie Miller;
Ekelund’s work found via Hardformat

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Normandie’s Circle of the Beloved membership kit arrived in the mail. Wrote about it last week.

Box o good stuff: Handmade CDs by the band and a bunch of things I designed, black and white tees, poster, lifetime show pass. For more info, hit up their merch page.

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So Sacramento’s kinda full of Kansas City emigres.

Many graphic design studio owners came from there, having studied under the legendary Rob Roy Kelly at the Kansas City Art Institute. And it may be only a matter of time until DJG ends up in Sac (I’m just guessing).

The Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985. And recently, I found out a few of my students have been designing Kings billboards on the side.

Part of a campaign headed up by Sacramento Kings creative director Heather Vaughan – the handmade, graffiti-themed billboards have been appearing all over town. Not prints, but the actual handpainted art. The project has garnered national publicity appearing as a ‘Coast to Coast Best Practice’ in the Sports Business Journal.

Time-lapse video, above. Work (by students) below. More details here.

Demetris Washington

Jonathan Price

Daniel Mendez

Found via Lyndsie Ross, Kings design intern

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(Unofficial) music video for Instant Remedy’s Fairlight.

Animation by DW Design.

Mesmerizing.

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40th Anniversary Woodstock tribute poster tied to a west coast music festival.

This was a collaborative project I designed with psychedelic light show legend George Holden. His liquid light backgrounds, my illustration and lettering.

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