BLACK PINE just released a new book which is not only lovingly hand made but is exceptionally beautiful in its simplicity. Great as a daily journal and small enough for traveling or taking photo-notes. Order yours here.
My girlfriend hand makes really nice, super simple/minimal books under the name BLACK PINE. She just launched her online shop with a blank journal that is available in two different colors – a great gift idea for the holidays (or for yourself).
Happy 40th birthday to Sesame Street! To celebrate, I give you one of my favorite moments (next to maybe this, of course): Geometry of Circles, a clip from a 1979 episode that includes music composed by Philip Glass! If only shows for kids were still this great…
Jeffrey Ladd, author of 5B4, got in touch to inform me of a new publishing company he has started called Errata Editions. Working with publisher Valerie Sonnenthal and editorial director Ed Grazda, Jeffrey is giving creative direction to the project. Errata’s first releases, four books from a series called Books on Books, help get “the [...]
I was chatting with Michael Bühler-Rose (who, if you haven’t noticed, is currently holding down the fort for Laurel) and we got to talking about this installation piece posted on VVORK. “You just can’t look away,” Michael said. Seeing Mai Hofstad Gunnes‘ piece made me think of the work of French photographer George Rousse. Which [...]
Thanks to Leslie, I’ve been entertaining myself for the last fifteen minutes with this great little Java applet that can turn any website into a graph. For a simple example, see my portfolio (shanelavalette.com): Here’s an explanation of how it works from Sala, the creator: Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of [...]
Early color wheel, 1708 © C.B. (presumably Claude Boutet) Pulling from Sarah Lowengard’s text, The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe, the COLOURlovers blog put together a great article on the history of the color wheel. The article looks at the progression of color organization systems and how the wheel came to be, featuring a [...]
A little while back, I posted about an online archive of jazz LPs. I was thrilled to come across a similar collection of classical record sleeves. Love it.
Check out Vintage Vanguard‘s great online archive of record sleeves for albums by various jazz musicians. Nice use of color, image placement and typography in some of these LPs. In case you were wondering, “ジャズレコード館” translates from Japanese to English as “Jazz Record Mansion.”
cover and p. 1 of About 2 Squares, 1922 © El Lissitzky In one of my classes today we spent a little while looking at and discussing this beautiful children’s book by Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect (seriously!) El Lissitzky, titled About 2 Squares. In the images above, the page on the [...]
