Making Ideas Happen
You should go order my friend Scott Belsky's book (of Behance Fame), it's called Making Ideas Happen. Seriously, do it. Very proud of him. It's going to be great!
Continue Reading →The 5 Year Plan
The 5 Year Plan is a collection of 32 screen-printed artworks by 32 contemporary artists. Contributors include Yoko Ono, Francesco Clemente, Donald Baechler, Chris Martin and Julie Doucet, as well as under known artists. All profits from sales of 5…
Continue Reading →We Feel Fine: The Book
Over the years I've had the pleasure of getting to know and becoming friends with Jonathan Harris through all sorts of different avenues, projects he has done, and more recently the times we've found ourselves in the desert in Jordan…
Continue Reading →Flashback: Retro Design
New Victionary book about retro design and how it's appearing in contemporary graphical work. Looks good as both inspiration and a reference tool. Emerged today as the perfect marriage between old and new, retrospective designs are deemed to be an…
Continue Reading →Gestalten Books
Two crazy (and crazy interesting) books from Gestalten showed up on my desk this week. Both are worth checking out! The first is called Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper (top) and is all about the crazy and ingenious projects…
Continue Reading →Andy Kaufman Wrestles The Ladies
Andy Kaufman was before my time but if what I read about this feud with Jerry Lawler and that "Man on the Moon" movie were any indication, this guy was a walking laugh factory. He blurred the line between the…
Continue Reading →Upstarts! Book (I'm in in it…)
Nearly a year ago I was interviewed for Donna Fenn's next book Upstarts!. Now, I'm in it (there's an entire section on Undercurrent and our culture) with a handful of my entrepreneur pals from around the globe... It's a great…
Continue Reading →Viction:ary's Colour Mania
Good looking new book called Colour Mania from the folks at Viction:ary! In a world where everything dances in a veritable kaleidoscope of colours, few of today's uni-colour design has successfully manifested the intrinsic expressive qualities of colours across a…
Continue Reading →SparkLife: Blogging New Moon
We're neck-deep in a vampire renaissance. First, there's True Blood, the Alan Ball created series that imagines Bon Temps, Louisiana as a place where strange and supernatural creatures aren't just a result of second cousins marrying. And then there's Twilight…
Continue Reading →Pinkghost x Chubby Book Series
pinkghost just announced the latest (and least exploitative) expression of fandom for all things round and chubby since Dance Your Ass Off. In collaboration with artists Julie West, Helena Garcia and 64Colors, pinkghost will debut the Chubby Books Series. The…
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