CREATOR: Various
SERIES: Mixed Bag
NOTES: Mostly extracted from archived footage of Print magazine from the 60s. Included: Benson Helprin, Robert Niece, Peter James Samerjan, Richard Avedon, Isadore Seltzer, Hiro
CREATOR: Sauman Wong, Sarah Chow, Vikki Yau
CATEGORY: Resource
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
CREATOR: Csilla Klenyanszki
CATEGORY: Photography
NOTES: I smile constantly while looking through this book of well-engineered, home totems – just imagining how much fun Csilla (and her presumed team) had creating these pieces. This projct was created within the guiderails of early motherhood and all were constructed within 30 minutes – the duration of her son's nap.
AUTHOR: Johannes Romberch
CATEGORY: Books
NOTES: Very interesting book on 'the art of memory' with examples of what has to be some of the first interpretative (or found) letterforms.
CREATOR: Brian Roettinger
CATEGORY: Spotlight / Design
NOTES: When I was at ACCD, Brian was at Cal-Arts – his posters for SCI-ARC made me an avid fan... and he won a grammy.
AUTHOR: Christian Becksvoort
CATEGORY: Data
NOTES: Cross-section of various types of trees.
CREATOR: Ed Templeton
CATEGORY: Photography
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
AUTHOR: Justus Perthes
CATEGORY: Mapping / Astronomy
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
CREATOR: Various
CATEGORY: Stamps
NOTES: A few of these are taken from the wonderful book 'Graphic Stamps' from Unit Editions. Acquire it if you can.
CREATOR: Giovanni Agostino Pantheo
CATEGORY: Books / Pseudoscience
NOTES: 'Alchemy--Early works to 1800'
CREATOR: Robert Mangold
CATEGORY: Spotlight / Art
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
CREATOR: Lajos Szalay
CATEGORY: Spotlight / Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
CREATOR: Erhard Schön
CATEGORY: Books / Illustration
NOTES: Full translated title: Misrepresentation of the proportion and position of the antics, lying and standing, as one can see in the booklet, for the young journeymen and boys to train those who have a love for the art.
CREATOR: Various
CATEGORY: Stamps
NOTES: A few of these are taken from the wonderful book 'Graphic Stamps' from Unit Editions. Acquire it if you can.
CREATOR: Takenobu Igarashi
CATEGORY: Design
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
CREATOR: Nigel Holmes
CATEGORY: Data
NOTES: It's rather difficult to critique this set of information graphics by Nigel Holmes. On one hand they go against most of the unpsoken rules of practical communication design... but on the other hand they are ridiculously fun (at least the ones that aren't problematic.
AUTHOR: John of Capua
CATEGORY: Books
NOTES: Seems like a series of tales coupled with confounding imagery.
CREATOR: Triteyed
CATEGORY: Patterns / Motifs
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
AUTHOR: W.E.B. Du Bois
CATEGORY: Data
NOTES: W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life
CREATOR: Henry Bursill
CATEGORY: Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
CREATOR: Elbert Tokay
CATEGORY: Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
AUTHOR: Gyorgy Kepes
CATEGORY: Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
AUTHOR: Kenya Hara Ed.
CATEGORY: Design
NOTES: Jinah Ham, Ryuji Nakamura, Haruka Misawa, Torafu Architects, Yoshiaki Irobe, Bunpei Yorifuji, Kenya Hara, Kyuyo Ishikawa, Atsushi Wada, Akira Minagawa