It finally feels like this might be coming together. These are the plants that slugs and snails have allowed us to grow. They’re also the plants that can withstand massive amounts of air pollution (the A12 sits just beyond these trees) as well as the endless fussing of a control freak graphic designer.
Great Tits are go!
Such a treat to witness: the way the parents use food to coax and cajole the reluctant chicks out of the box and then up off the ground (they are in very immediate danger from local cats) I had no idea how much aftercare was required once they fledge.
A special edition of family game Find Your Father (using only photos and videos found online).
Special because Grimsby are on course for their best season in 20 years but also because for the first time Dad was captured with his arms aloft (during yesterday’s 4–1 win at Gillingham). A real spotter’s badge.
Maybe he felt especially jubilant as today is his birthday. Happy birthday Big Mick!
A cover for Orwell’s Pleasures, a collection of essays celebrating some of the small joys of everyday life.
It’s not hard to see that this was a collaboration with @commercialclassics and owes a massive debt to their artful resuscitations of long-forgotten typefaces.
I will retire a little happier knowing I once got to use Macassar (Nonsense Poetry) for a commercial job.
Thanks too to art director @jim_stoddart for graciously allowing 39 uninvited words onto the cover.
Edited by Rebecca Solnit
Published by @penguinukbooks in October.
After a little break the Book Cover Review is back with @micahlexier and the work of Belgian-Canadian artist Pierre Boogaerts.
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A cover for Too Little, Too Hard, a book born out of an online publication and podcast that asks established and emerging writers to consider the intersections of work, time and value.
This is the slowest method I could think of to earn my cover design fee.
Published in June by @presspeninsula
Art direction: @samcaradog
I do like these hard-boiled Heinemann covers from the mid ’70s. Just the right amount of very little, delivering a good swift kick to the eyeballs.
The spines are hilariously unfocused though, and bring to mind the bouncing DVD screensaver.
The case of the missing design standards.
Photography: Robert Golden
Designer unknown
One of several type-led illustrations I produced for Chanel last year.
I’m forever fascinated by the strange patchwork of jobs that make up a freelance career.
Is designing for dead authors actually really easy and not a proper design job?
I’ll be discussing this and more at this year’s @fontstand conference in Berlin.
Tickets: /yr79nazf
It’s a tough place to go, Leyton Orient. Three teams are allowed on the pitch, goalkeepers can catch the ball wherever they like and their manager is just dying to chin someone.
