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A brown envelope I’m always glad to receive is that containing the latest BeatBooks catalogue. Each quarter the arrival of the 8″ x 6″ booklet soon results in the tapping out of the url of the online order form for Andrew Sclanders’ site. And the catalogues are treasurable in their own right. Over the last […]
I heartily (groan…) recommend Alistair Sooke’s half-hour radio documentary on Milton Glaser’s I ♥ NY logo. Glaser is interviewed, as are Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller among others.
According to Letterheady.com’s Shaun Usher, the adjective “letterheady” describes the feeling of being overcome by emotion at a strong letterhead design.
Over on the Barney Bubbles Blog I’ve posted a piece about this design for the Blockhead EP by Punks Jump Up. See here.
A personal loss and the rash of suicides among young gay individuals in the US has prompted the creation of a two-sided poster as the latest project by art collective 2-UP . No More Suicides is a collaboration between Adam Shecter (who founded 2-UP last year with partner Joe Winter) and poet Matthea Harvey, who […]
Excerpt from 1983 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip Hop History.
Sixty years after Blast, the You’re Gonna Wake Up t-shirt adopted the same truculent tone and diffuse dialectic to ring the alarms amid a culture rendered flaccid by the failure of the 60s dream. You’re Gonna Wake Up – which went on sale in SEX in the late autumn of 1974 – was conceived by […]
Wyndham Lewis’ 1914 publication Blast 1 is the daddy of the modern aesthetic manifesto. It’s also a Modernist objet d’art. Iconoclastic and satiric, at times inchoate and irrational, Blast’s aim was to establish Vorticism‘s endorsement of the machine age and and simultaneous disavowal of the stultifying Romantic legacy of the Victorian era.
SEX became a magical place. People spent hours there; no one wanted to leave. In it, I created a feeling that was both euphoric and hysterical. You felt an enormous range of possibilities – that whatever was happening couldn’t be predicted, but it was a movement toward a place unknown. Malcolm McLaren, Musical Paintings [JRP […]
As explored in In Their Own Write, the most important creative in the development of British print media in the latter half of the 20th Century was Nick Logan. Arguably his greatest contribution was via the launch of The Face in 1980. This year-end review – “123 things to remember 1980 by” – was featured […]