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Pleasure Domes with Parking
The Court of Flowers, postcard. We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Because my grandfather...
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A Life in Matches
A Life in Matches: Marineland Restaurant, Marineland, California. Photograph by Ben Stott. How does one document his or her life? Do you track the minute details of each and every day in a diary, like...
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Catch the Bus
BUS:STOP, Sou Fujimoto; image © Adolf Bereuter; via DesignBoom Krumbach is an Austrian market town with a population of about one thousand—it has a handsome eleventh-century castle and, as of this...
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Shep and Dorothy
A husband-and-wife team and their influential midcentury designs. From Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream. Lucky is the designer who can see in both two and three dimensions. Luckier still...
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Anatomy of a Cover: The Complete Works of Flannery O’Connor
At the time of her death, at age thirty-nine, Flannery O’Connor had published only two novels, thirty-one short stories, and a small book’s worth of literary criticism and critical essays. “In most...
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The Font of Poetry, the Poetry of Font
Adventures in typography. Photo: Willi Heidelbach I was a teenage font addict. On Microsoft Word I’d lovingly scroll through the drop-down font menu: Avenir Book, Baskerville, Goudy, Goudy Old Style....
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Criterion at Thirty
I’d always thought that designing new packaging for a classic film was like designing a jacket for a new edition of a well-known book: both are associated, in the popular imagination, with familiar,...
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Flying Saucers Over the Art Department!
How the book designers of the fifties and sixties tackled alien invasions. A still from Forbidden Planet, 1956. It’s impossible to know what sort of cover design will make a book fly off the shelves....
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The Art of Space Art
Tim Pyle’s conception of the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Between 1952 and 1954, the Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ran a popular series in Collier’s Weekly...
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Oliver Munday’s Graphic Design with a Conscience
Perhaps the most striking images in Oliver Munday’s new monograph, Don’t Sleep, appear just before the title page. On the left-facing page is a nineteenth-century map of the Senate floor. On the...
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