A Book Cover Anthology: Penguin Turns 75
by J.C. Gabel
To commemorate the publisher’s 75th anniversary, Paul Buckley edited Penguin 75, a book that collects a cherished Penguin cover design for every year of business, including many Classic Deluxe Editions. “To me,” Buckley says, “often more interesting than the covers themselves are the stories, and the psychology that created all the variables that led to one cover over the 20 others proposed.”...
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The Eklips of Ungerer
by Steven Heller
Tomi Ungerer, one of the most important illustrators of our time, has produced more than 40,000 drawings, poster drafts, collages, lithographs, woodcuts, and objects during his lifetime. He has also illustrated 140 books for children and adults, ranging from fairy tales to social satires and dealing with diverse topics such as childhood memories, eroticism, and death. He now has a website. And if you want to see what this master of acerbic art is doing now, go there right now. (And don’t be surprised by what you see.)...
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Eat, Pray, Nip, Tuck
by Steven Heller
Television shows, films, and stylish celebs have the power to influence the consuming public. Mad Men, for example, brought back thin ties, white shirts and "modern fit two-button suits." So will the new film based on Elizabeth Gilbert's confessional Eat Pray Love make many yearn for a week- or year-long stay in Bali? Scenes in the movie of that idyllic surrounding (since the devastating bombing there), along with intense close-ups of star Julia Roberts devouring pasta (and roast turkey) in Rome are the most appetizing moments in this cinematic turkey....
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Pablo Ferro Book Illustrator
by Steven Heller
Pablo Ferro, best known for his film titles, illustrated this unforgettable tale of a fifties café in northern Kentucky. The sleepy little town of Willow Creek is steeped in good fellowship, magic, and strange occurrences. In this spot, without so much as a dot on the map to hint of its existence, Alma and Vannie May often show up unannounced when most needed, and their business, The Two Sisters’ Café, is open from early morning until the last customer of the night chooses to leave, full of something more sustaining than even the sisters’ amazing food....
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Speaking of Bernhard
by Steven Heller
One of the best designers to carry the Lucian Bernhard gene, Michael Schwab recently launched the Turner Classic Movies poster project (creative director: Rob Reed – 1 Trick Pony), which you can see on TMC “Summer Under the Stars” website. The posters, which follow in the sachplakat tradition with a hint of the Beggarstaff Brothers, include two score silhouettes of movie stars, like Julie Christie, Clint Eastwood, and Norma Shearer....
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Hail Bernhard the Magnificent
by Steven Heller
The Priester Match poster is a watershed document of modern graphic design, or rather, proto-Modern design. Its composition is so stark and its colors so startling that it captures the viewer’s eye in an instant. Before 1906, when the poster first appeared on the streets of Berlin, persuasive simplicity was a rare thing in most advertising: posters, especially, tended to be wordy and ornate. No one had yet heard of its young creator, who, thanks to this poster, was to influence the genre of advertising known as the Sachplakat, or object poster....
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Nice Car, Nice Car
by Steven Heller
Have you heard the joke about advertising Volkswagen back in the 50s, attributed to George Lois? When his agency, Doyle Dane Bernbach, had the account, he said the challenge was to sell a "Nazi car in a Jewish town." And so they did. The ads that emerged from Doyle Dane Bernbach in the 1950s (no, not the Nazi era one below top) succeeded in putting the volk in the joke and taking the Nazi sting out of das VW; the result was the cute little beetle....
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Windows As Theater
by Steven Heller
It is hard to avoid the Steinbergian influence in veteran John Rombola's work. Nonetheless, aspects of his work transcend the similarities. For all of August 2010 Rombola's surreal displays are installed in the highly visible windows of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue, New York (above). And in keeping with Bergdorf's tradition for eccentric windows, they jump through the glass. Rombola is in the perfect environ....
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What's In Store for Core?
by Steven Heller
CORE77, the pioneering design blog, is now a pioneering design store – in Portland, Oregon. Co-founder Allan Chochinov reports the new flagship – the Hand Eye Supply – is waving furiously.The Blakläder Utility Kilt (above) alone does it for me. But how about the Ben Davis Black Bib Overall and the Gedore Woman’s Workcoat? Also the CORE store features these: Studio & Shop Supplies, Implements & Materials, Occupational Accoutrements, Old School and Nu-Style Workwear, Gifts for Creative Types, Brands both Domestic and Foreign....
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Bombs Away! Forever!
by Steven Heller
At fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima. The rest is history and horrorstory. 65 years ago yesterday the first atomic bomb was detonated. Three weeks later John Hersey‘s “Hiroshima” was the first and last single story to fill a full issue of the New Yorker magazine.
“The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city."...
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Bozo: American Hero
by Steven Heller
Before his death in 2008, Larry Bozo Harmon finished writing THE MAN BEHIND THE NOSE: Assassins, Astronauts, Cannibals, and Other Stupendous Tales. Together with writer Thomas Scott McKenzie, Harmon tells the inspiring, touching, and unique story of his life. Bozo was a hero. "He left the world a happier place than when he came into it. This is the wonderful legacy of Larry Harmon, the man known and loved by children and adults everywhere as Bozo the Clown."...
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Add Water and Talent
by Steven Heller
You may have seen the recent bubbly ad campaign in magazines with the alluring headline "Learn Graphic Design Fast." At first glance I wondered whether it was the equivalent of the traffic sign, "Slow Children Crossing." Maybe there should be a comma somewhere.The ad for Shillington College in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, London, Manchester and now New York, has been causing some consternation in the blogosphere....
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