If you're in the New York realm and lookin' for a little something to occupy your Sunday, stroll down to the Brooklyn Book Festival. If you're anything like me and you can spend hours wandering aimlessly around The Strand or…
Continue Reading →As the latest edition in the Cream series, Phaidon has recently released Ice Cream, another selection of 100 of the most significant emerging artists working today. Chosen by a team of ten internationally-renowned curators, Ice Cream familiarizes readers with their…
Continue Reading →For the past week, I have been diving head-first into my new day job -- learning the ropes, meeting my new teammates, and generally bracing myself for a return to the working world have all taken up much of my…
Continue Reading →Last night, around ten o'clock, I swooped a copy of Charlotte Rivers's Poster-Art; three hours later, I set it down, not even halfway through the 150+ pages of incredible poster design. A compilation of mass-market, personal, and limited-edition work by…
Continue Reading →I don't know what's more charming about [Art]ifact, the latest book from Hong Kong-based art publisher viction:ary, that it seems like a legitimately great coffee table book of full clever reuses for household items, or that its description on viction:ary's…
Continue Reading →We like it when our readers travel and keep their eyes open. So, a big shout out to Andy for giving us the heads up on something we really should have been all over: the grand opening of Amsterdam's new…
Continue Reading →American artist Charley Harper, whose well-loved illustrations of nature, insects, animals and people have been appearing in books and magazines since the 1950's, passed away barely a month ago in his hometown of Cincinnati at the age of 84. The…
Continue Reading →This morning, I got another one of those friendly emails Amazon likes to send to remind me that they know me...maybe even better than my mom does. Like enough to know that even though I say I don't care about…
Continue Reading →Every so often, I review my browsing history and start to feel a bit jaded. I mean, surely there's more to life than secret retail sales, snarky blogs, and open bars... right? (I don't know where you're getting these crackpot…
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