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My Ideal Bookshelf: The Books That Make the Designer
Visually, the average bookshelf is a mess. Arranged along single planks are these hundreds of objects of every conceivable dimension and color, spanning decades—centuries, even—of our cultural history....
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Bucky Fuller's Book: "I Seem To Be a Topsy-Turvy Design"
Last week, Steven Heller covered Quentin Fiore, designer of books by the medieval-minded media theorist Marshall McLuhan and the yuppie-brained Yippie leader Jerry Rubin. Heller also mentioned a 1970...
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Comics/FX Artist on Gore Garters, Sequential Paintings, and the Benefits of...
Meaghan O'Keefe is among her people. She's in a comics shop in Burbank, California, at a release party for her first graphic novel, a dark terror tale titled Identity Thief, written by Bryant Dillon....
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Many Happy (Tax) Returns: A Marxist Doctrine
With all of us looking at the Fiscal Cliff on the horizon, who better to explain things than Marx . . .. . . GROUCHO Marx.About 15 years ago, I traded my signed copy of The Groucho Letters to the...
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What Is the Essence of a Book?
Over the last couple of months, I have been picking my way through I Read Where I Am, “82 reflections on the future forms of reading.” In the book, some contributors claim that we read less than we...
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Los Angeles Views "Graphic Design: Now in Production"
At a Hammer Museum panel last month, Willem Henri Lucas introduced himself, Gail Swanlund, and Brian Roettinger as three L.A.-based designers who were about to discuss a current exhibition of...
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Wunderkammer of Color: January 2013 Edition
What’s the very latest in the bright kaleidoscopic world of color? Let’s reach into the grab bag and find out.Many of you know I’m a sucker for oddball coloring books. So I just about leapt out of my...
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ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book (and Talk) About Color
ROY G. GIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color by Jude Stewart. Design by Oliver Munday. Buy now:...
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Editor's Choice: What can we learn...
Today and tomorrow, the Design Group Editors have been given a great deal of power. For the next two days, their favorite books are half cover Print's MyDesignShop.com price. What can we learn from an...
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Arthur Frommer Gets His Name Back
More than half a century ago, U.S. Army Corporal Arthur Frommer published a travel guide for American soldiers stationed in Europe. He would later produce a mass market version entitled Europe on $5 a...
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