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.
ARTIST: 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.
ARTIST: Ed Templeton
CATEGORY: Photography
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
AUTHOR: Justus Perthes
CATEGORY: Mapping / Astronomy
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
ARTIST: Various
CATEGORY: Stamps
NOTES: A few of these are taken from the wonderful book 'Graphic Stamps' from Unit Editions. Acquire it if you can.
ARTIST: Giovanni Agostino Pantheo
CATEGORY: Books / Pseudoscience
NOTES: 'Alchemy--Early works to 1800'
ARTIST: Robert Mangold
CATEGORY: Spotlight / Art
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
ARTIST: Lajos Szalay
CATEGORY: Spotlight / Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
ARTIST: 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.
ARTIST: Various
CATEGORY: Stamps
NOTES: A few of these are taken from the wonderful book 'Graphic Stamps' from Unit Editions. Acquire it if you can.
ARTIST: Takenobu Igarashi
CATEGORY: Design
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
ARTIST: 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.
ARTIST: 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
ARTIST: Henry Bursill
CATEGORY: Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
ARTIST: 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
ARTIST: Unknown
CATEGORY: Illustration
NOTES: Noone's written anything yet.
ARTIST: Martin Venezky
CATEGORY: Design
NOTES: An essential monograph for anywone into experimental typography.
ARTIST: Unknown
CATEGORY: Mixed
NOTES: An assortment of images from various sources
ARTIST: Rob & Aaron
CATEGORY: Other
NOTES: Two birds longing for 'the good old days' – not realizing they are currently living them.