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Blog: Book design

8 February 2010

Town of type

the events department

Revisiting the book designers of St Gallen, Switzerland

St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland is renowned for its Abbey Library, with its valuable medieval…

27 January 2010

Ditto – hard copy

‘I’d rather reach 100 people who care than 20,000 who don’t give a sh*t’

Some still prefer print, writes Chloë King, but is it sensible to start a small press…

11 December 2009

Tony Meeuwissen in Stroud

steve hare

‘The eye of an illustrator with the mind of a designer’

I’ve been stopped in my tracks by particularly intricate, amusing or just stunningly brilliant Penguin…

5 December 2009

The form of the book

jane cheng

Fifteenth-century book-making – white space by design and default

It is usually argued by incunabulists (specialists in works printed prior to 1501) that the…

29 November 2009

Notes on Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza

roger sabin

Joe Sacco, interviewed by Roger Sabin, at London’s ICA

Roger Sabin interviewed Joe Sacco in September 2009, part of ComICA at London’s ICA. Here’s…

11 November 2009

Just Add Stock winner, Book series

The Penguin Magnum series

The Just Add Stock judges had little difficulty deciding the winner of the book series category…

5 November 2009

Wall to wall

liz farrelly

Millennium Print Collection at Brighton’s Crane Kalman gallery

Founded in 1998 by photographer and lecturer Jason Shenai, Millennium Images offers more than 20,00…

9 October 2009

A night at the Loeries

sean o'toole, sean o’toole

South African creativity finds a voice at this year’s awards

‘Woop woop woop korr, korr, korr, korr…’ So goes the call of the crow-sized Knysna…

7 October 2009

Framing the evidence of war

rick poynor

An ambitious hybrid combines graphic novel with photojournalism.

If a book like The Photographer already exists (cover pictured above), I have certainly never…

6 October 2009

Just Add Stock winner, Books

dan wilkinson, the awards department

Henry Sene Yee’s minimalist cover for Dave Cullen’s Columbine

The book category in Eye’s Just Add Stock awards attracted more entries than any other…

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