Thackeray West

www.thackeraywest.co.uk

Interesting new UK based textile designers who produce simple colourful fabrics.

Cy Twombly Fifty Years of Works on Paper

Splashed out on this book, there are some extraordinary pieces inside, the text is a little poncey and I can't really connect to work on that level but as graphics they make me want to get scribbling (sorry Cy).

Here's a more coherent appreciation:

http://tinyurl.com/3655hlv

Cooking for Two

Legs on covers cliché

An article which sites the use of legs on covers as a cliché. Having popped a few legs on jackets myself in the past I know that it's an easy way to not give too much away about the central character but give good positioning clues to the purchaser, 'lovely shoes' etc. It's good that it's over, it was the equivalent of not being able to draw hands so leave them off.

http://tinyurl.com/273urs7

Fritz Wegner

The line work of Fritz Wegner's illustrations are like freshly ironed cotton sheets.

Paperworks project

http://tinyurl.com/yjl6fcw

1959 Ektacolour C prints

Things

Of all the task software that I have downloaded over the years, then dumped, this is a keeper. It's elegantly simple which keeps you on line, you can synch with your iPhone too.

http://culturedcode.com/

Never Use White Type on a Black Background

Here's a preview of this in Issuu
http://tinyurl.com/mnoadd

Coronation ticket

Perpetua at it's regal finest

The Symphony of Science

This is rather beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4

time-lapse cover cover design

This shows all the the twiddly bits.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/09/time-lapse-of-book-c.html

Don't judge a book by its cover

Interesting Guardian article on the perplexities of cover design by Tom Lamont

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/09/judge-book-by-cover

Important Artifacts and Personal Property

Wonderful absorbing detail:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Important-Artifacts-Personal-Property-Collection/dp/1408804727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273507807&sr=8-1

Gem-like bookshop in Notting Hill, well worth a visit. Not much to see on the web but has location details:

http://www.lutyensrubinstein.co.uk/

Eight Years of Faber Book Cover Design

This new Faber book has some glorious early book cover designs and

I notice has a few of our covers.

London Writer's Club

Just given a Q&A to the excellent London Writer's Club. They have some useful posts for aspiring writers and run courses on getting published.

http://www.publishabestseller.com/news/

ASA Designers

Inspiring product design:

asadesigners

First Time I Met The Blues

Tim Turner has written and self published this great book, it's worth a read, visit his blog to find out more:

http://firsttimeimettheblues.blogspot.com/