Chateau Sign

IMG_4523, originally uploaded by hello.vickibrown.

Spotted this sign while I was in France - lovely. A bit Rob Ryan I thought - the people remind me a bit of the Crooked Man on this book cover.

What's my line?

What's my line?, originally uploaded by litherland.

Some lovely type in The New York Times Magazine. Swooshy.

IBM 1975 - The Future

These images of a 1975 IBM presentation have survived to become part of the enormous Square America collection. Besides the obvious intrigue of the future in the past (if you know what I mean), I think the design stands up pretty well 33 years later.

I bet it was done on a Mac.

cajmq2, originally uploaded by pinkfloyd99.

Click through and see it at a readable size.
Via VSL.

Faber Finds

The new service from publisher Faber & Faber looks really interesting - as digital printing becomes ever cheaper it's now viable for them to re-produce out of print books to order. Faber Finds is also unique (I think) in it's use of a "design machine" (as they call it) to generate a unique cover for each and every book ordered. What a great way to make a book really special, as well as a great solution to making print on demand accessible and well designed. The talents of Marian Bantjes for the border design (elements shown below), who has some more lovely examples if you follow that link, Karsten Schmidt for the technical bits and Michael C. Place for the custom typeface have been brought together fantastically well.

Giovanni Pintori

Giovanni Pintori, originally uploaded by hello.vickibrown.

Some colourful inspiration.

Marian Bantjes - Love Stories

Marian Bantjes has just published a set of fantastic personal work in the latest Monograph (available to Creative Review subscribers only). Luckily the Creative Review blog also has a bit of information about it, and you can see lovely big images of all the work on Marian's website. Each of the beautiful pieces is the story of someone she loves, and you really get a sense of the people behind these.

American Craft Magazine

Another interesting guest post on design*sponge about American Craft's move towards more hands-on typography. Some lovely images. I'm going to try and hunt a copy of this down.

Ray Fenwick - Magic Tricks

Magic Tricks, originally uploaded by Ray Fenwick.

More lovely stuff. I recommend a good look through his Flickr, it's all fantastic.

Chicago Type

In a refreshing change in tone, there's an interesting guest post over on design*sponge all about type. It led me on to chicagotype.com, an archive of found type in and around Chicago; some good, some bad, some just interesting. No tranquilizers.

Linzie Hunter

abcd3f, originally uploaded by Linzie Hunter.

So simple and so lovely!

Casey O'Connell

There's a great interview with Casey O'Connell over on Josh Spear at the moment. An interesting read and some beautiful work.