Static Movements

Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010

Static Movements is Piero Zagami visual exploration of the human movements, focused on martial arts performances, printed on see-through paper on a large format book. The experiment aims to freeze the movements of martial art performers into a tangible series of layers of perception through the use of visual narrative techniques applied with the use acetate, draft film and tracing papers.

Gutter

Posted by Fabio 16 December 2009

Gutter is a huge comic and drawing anthology compiled and edited by Victor Kerlow and produced by Tiny Vices. featuring 100 full-color pages of work by artists such as Andrew Gonzales, Anthony Baab, Ben Jones and Ben Schumacher. read more

Angus Hyland speaks about ‘Bibliographic’

Posted by Fabio 4 December 2009

Angus Hyland, Pentagram Partner and Art Director at Laurence King Publishing, takes a look at ‘Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books’; a compilation of some of the best design books of the last 100 years.

www.laurenceking.com

Geoff McFetridge

Posted by Fabio 3 December 2009

This book is a small collection of some of the work the very talented Geoff McFetridge (previously featured in File issue 1) has done for Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the book Where the Wild Things Are. read more

ANISH KAPOOR BOOK SIGNING

Posted by Fabio 1 December 2009

On Friday 11 December, the final day of the blockbuster exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, Anish Kapoor will make a rare appearance to sign copies of his new monograph published by Phaidon, at the pop-up Phaidon Store on Piccadilly. read more

Phaidon ‘pop-up’ stores

Posted by Fabio 25 November 2009

Phaidon can be seen as the latest example of a trend which has been appearing across the UK from restaurants to night clubs over the last months. However, this is the first time a book publisher has gone down this route, and timely in advance of Christmas shopping.
This is an interesting move within a struggling publishing industry – a stand out decision to go into retail and open their own flagship stores as opposed to just stocking through Waterstones, Amazon etc. read more

The Book Cover Archive

Posted by Fabio 17 November 2009

A great archive of book cover designs and designer from recent years. Edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.

www.bookcoverarchive.com

Spike Jonze at Family

Posted by Fabio 14 November 2009

Heads On And We Shoot book unveils the unique collaboration behind Where The Wild Things Are, the combined work of Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and all the cast and crew. This sunday at Family, Spike Jonze is going to be signing copies and Q&A.

Family Books
Sunday Nov. 15th, 5pm / 436 N Fairfax Ave / Los Angeles, CA

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