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frontmatters: Tales from the flat file
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Tales from the flat file. Continuing my trip down memory lane, here are a few moldy-oldies I dug up recently and scanned. All from the early half of the past decade—some with spines, some without. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Alex camlin / design. Alex camlin / work. Typecast / AIGA / BSA. RDA Feature / Print Magazine. Triangles 1 / Casual Optimist. Triangles 2 / Casual Optimist. Q and A / Casual Optimist. BoNE Show / BCA Blog. Best of Boston 2009 / Cartogrammer. Harvard Review / BCA Blog.
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frontmatters: overdue book review / Graphic Forms
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Overdue book review / Graphic Forms. In January, 1949 The Bookbuilders of Boston and Harvard University Press presented a series of lectures on "The Arts As Related to the Book". The list of speakers reads like a who's who of post-war book design, including W.A. Dwiggins, Paul Rand, Donald Klopfer (co-founder of Random House), Edna and Peter Beilenson (founders of the Peter Pauper Press), and Merle Armitage (book designer and Art Director for Look Magazine. From the 70s—you get the idea. Before leaving H...
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frontmatters: Tales from the flat file II: back into hell
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Tales from the flat file II: back into hell. Cleaning up my office today, and ran across some of the greatest hits of yesterday. 04 February, 2011 10:46. I stumbled upon the Harvard Review Issue #39 in the bookstore the other day, and fell in love with the cover you designed. Brilliant! Just thought you should know! 05 February, 2011 10:30. Thanks Julie, so glad you liked it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Alex camlin / design. Alex camlin / work. Typecast / AIGA / BSA. RDA Feature / Print Magazine.
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frontmatters: teenage kicks—and sit-ups, and leg-lifts
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Teenage kicks—and sit-ups, and leg-lifts. I found my wife Jennifer paging through one of my sample copies of Punk Rock Aerobics. Recently (more on why later), and I got to thinking about what a fun book it was to design.one of those projects that are one of a kind. At first glance, it might look like a joke—a National Lampoons-style situational goof or something—but this was a real. And had even taken their show on the road to CBGB, among other places. Advises designers (and I'm either paraphrasing, or m...
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frontmatters: Octobucks, or: Krakens will be Krakens
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Octobucks, or: Krakens will be Krakens. Here's an illustration I recently completed for the September/October issue of Boston Review. This issue is the first to be housed in a brilliant new redesign by my friends George Restrepo. For a few years now (since 2006), George and I have been collaborating on covers for the Review. That gig grew out of his long-standing role as the designer of their magazine covers, which have won their share of design awards. I had heard that a major overhaul of the Review.
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frontmatters: GOD: What's the Big Idea?
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GOD: What's the Big Idea? My most recent foray into the rapidly expanding or—depending on your perspective—overly saturated god-or-no-god book market has made me aware of a trend (or a tendency, maybe), in cover designs for this genre. I get the sense that if the word "god" is in the title, you either go big—or go to hell, I suppose. Frank Schaeffer's Patience With God. Maybe the word inspires an American brand of graphic respect: bigger = more badass. After all, god is. Big S/he can be threatening (old ...
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