Tom Gauld’s Goliath, the giant’s story

Comic book artist Tom Gauld is set to release a new book next year through Drawn & Quarterly. The Montreal-based publishers recently put some preview pages from the forthcoming Goliath up on their site

Rand v Jobs: when egos collide

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is full of examples of the latter’s ‘challenging’ behaviour. But when Jobs asked Paul Rand to create the identity for his Next business, he finally met his match

The making-of Saul Bass

In his profile piece for the current issue of CR, Rick Poynor notes that Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design finally gives the great man the book he deserves. A short film shows the book in production

Mill Co and Monotype’s type-tastic art show

Creative agency Mill Co teamed up with Monotype Imaging and tasked a selection of image makers to create artworks taking three Monotype fonts – Akko, Neue Haas Grotesk, and Rotis II as inspiration. The show runs in East London until November 24…

Record Sleeves of the Month: vinyl special

We’ve already posted up a glut of beautiful music packages this month but feel it’s time for another round up. This time there’s a distinctly vinyl flavour with releases from Massive Attack, Box Codax and Martin Creed, Tom The Lion, and the latest 7″ release on Fred Deakin’s Impotent Fury label…

The Occupied Times of London

As the City of London Corporation seeks to evict the Occupy London protesters from the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral, the movement yesterday launched its own newspaper, which makes good use of Jonathan Barnbrook’s typeface, Bastard

Hokusai: original mangaka

The sketchbooks of 18th century artist Katsushika Hokusai are packed with humour, charm and glimpses of everyday life. Pie Books in Japan has just published them as a beautiful collected edition

A game of literary Guess Who?

Penguin releases its 100 Postcards from Penguin Modern Classics set today. We’ve just been playing ‘guess the author’ and thought we’d try six out on our discerning readership. Tell us who they are for a chance to win them!

CR Photography Annual launch

Last night we launched the 2011 Photography Annual at the Aubin Gallery in east London. Thanks to everyone who made it along and congratulations to the Best in Book winners who picked up their awards on the night

The Black Keys’ Lonely Boy promo

Shortly after we all stood around Eliza’s desk agog as she showed us the Keith Schofield Duck Sauce video (see previous post), Emma here sent round this video for The Black Keys track Lonely Boy directed by Jesse Dylan (son of Bob) as a kind of therapy…

Be a bloody legend

A new anti-drink driving campaign from New Zealand succeeds by not patronising its main audience and recognising how young people can find it difficult to tell friends not to drive drunk

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