We understand that it can be hard getting a feel for what a book contains when looking at it on the web. We, on the other hand, get to spend a lot of quality time with the books we have in stock, so we felt it may be helpful share a few of our favorites with you.
Fresh from sticking it to the damn colonists and declaring independence on behalf of Kosovo and Tibet, Björk is leaking some lush imagery for her new video Wanderlust. Video will be released in the next few days. Feed has the latest.
Fidel then, Fidel now. “So, is it really possible that if clothes make the man, they can undo him as well?” Read the full article here.
Introducing Dubby, the first handset typeface designed by Blake E. Marquis to be carried by YouWorkForThem.
Check out his work and the font.
The masters of NeoGeo have added new work to their portfolio. Non-Format continues their winning streak.
Some Friday type for all you slackers.
“Letman’s letters are curious. His handmade style fits the boundaries of typography like a universe on itself by lashing out to illustration, grafitti and graphic design. Letters are free entities to him. They are clear and cunning.”
The mysteriously magic marker work of San Francisco illustrator, Scott Barry (Sacred Mtn.).
Purchase his So Long Sister Moon zine at Nieves when it becomes available again.
Or in the meantime, catch more work at Sacred Mtn. or Birdstand.
London-based agency Saturday is doing some beautiful high-end work.
Apparently they just wanted a shot of the beer splashing a bit as the mugs hit.
Didn’t expect the entire thing to shatter. Another reason why I love flickr.
“A contemporary grotesque ornamental typeface inspired by ‘The Unfinished Body’ – a quote taken from Mikhail Bakhtin. The alphabet compares our with medieval folk culture where life and death was the same thing and always happened simultaneously. Bakhtin argues that the grotesque ornament was the ultimate symbol for this where human, animal and plant form intertwined.”
Ken Meier‘s work is typographic-based and pretty amazing. Simple type, done right.
