The Import

Unfortunately now sold out – apparently in a rather impressive 2 hours – the PDF version of this lovely new type-geek magazine is understandably a must for anyone with more than a passing interest in the world of fonts and typography. Asking eight high profile designers which typefaces they’d use if they could only ever [...]

Design Books Graphic Design Magazines Typography

A little while back, for the benefit of our Twitter followers – if you’re not already, then why aren’t you? – we told you about having just received a lovely new book, from London based illustration agency, CIA, and also promised that we’d show it off in a bit more detail. Well, firstly apologies for [...]

Design Books Illustration London Print

Fairly high on our list of ‘must-haves’ at the moment is this rather splendid looking book from brilliant Norwegian studio, Bleed. Limited to 500 copies, the book features 8 of Bleed’s designers and their different interpretations of ‘Hunger‘ and is a rather desirable 200 page tome.

Contemporary Design Books Graphic Design Norway Oslo Photography Studios

We’re all becoming more and more obsessed with consumption – but could you imagine documenting your mundane purchases by drawing something that you buy, every day…. since February 5, 2006? Well – that’s just what Wisconsin based artist Kate Bingaman-Burt has been doing with her time…. and now, the parking tickets, coffee, packs of gum, [...]

Art Books Design Books Illustration Shopping

We’ve seen some beautifully designed recipe books over the years, not least those by award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand who, along with the critically acclaimed Jacob Kenedy – chef at ultra-fashionable London Italian Bocca di Lupo, has produced The Geometry of Pasta, a sensationally minimalist homage to the perfect pasta and sauce. Never before have we [...]

Books Design Books Food Illustration London Restaurants

There’s something beautifully nostalgic, and indeed inspiring, about perusing vintage public communications posters, probably due to the unfortunate realisation that it’s a relatively lost art… when was the last time you saw a public information poster as simple, effective and stylish as these retro classics? Collector, Paul Rennie is an expert, collector and dealer in [...]

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