Ex-Pentatagrammers & SMITH have some neat work.
June, 2010 Monthly archive
The talented Vancouver based graphic designer Chris Allen (also Art Director of Inventory magazine), just informed me he started his own publishing company called Ikigai.
The first title Front Lines is a catalogue which accompanied an exhibition in Toronto by the same name and was held during the CONTACT Photo festival.
Inspired by Robert Capa’s indelible scenes of the first ‘media war’, Front Lines is the result of a collaboration between photographer Brendan Meadows and Militaria collector Matthew Robinson that pays tribute to the soldiers who fought so bravely and encountered such tragedy in the Spanish Civil War. The project focuses on the camaraderie that emerged between these soldiers, giving a human face to their tragic misfortunes.
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Brendan Meadows & Matthew Robinson
Specifications:
11 3/8 x 17 inches (28.90 x 43.18cm); 40 pages; 4.4 oz (125 g); newsprint; fully illustrated; edition of 3 soft cover sleeves
Purchase the book over at Stockroom.
BOOK 01: Rudolf Hostettler
BOOK 02: Jost Hochuli
BOOK 03 / 1: TGG Hafen Senn Stieger
BOOK 03 / 2: Gaston Isoz
BOOK 04: Jürgen Bergbauer
BOOK 05: Taka Mayumi
BOOK 06: Lillian Bassman
BOOK 07: Lillian Bassman
45 graphic designers, 90 photographs, 10 years of books on contemporary art.
This book is based on an invitation to graphic designers to choose two books on contemporary art from the past decade whose design they think is particularly pertinent to the content, to photograph one double-page spread from each book and, if they wish, to comment on their choices.
Double Page provides a selection of recent art publications as viewed by graphic designers who are internationally known for their contribution to that field, and offers a glimpse at the role of book design today in our knowledge and understanding of contemporary art.
Shedding light on this prevalent relationship between art and graphic design by means of photography, Double Page constitutes an unprecedented document of how graphic designers see the work of their peers and their own practices as an essential part of the editorial process.
To be published on July the 9th 2010. Purchase it today and wou will receive it in the beginning of July.
