This is pretty cool. Worked up in the 80’s by John Knoll, this 32×32 pixel icon is what Adobe kick started their PhotoShop application with. Pretty cool find. And the icon is a pretty good likeness to an actual “photo shop”.
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Tag Archives: Book Design
Meet the Kidd
Here’s an under 5-minute video interview with Chip Kidd. {via Galleycat}
I haven’t looked up all the details, but it look slike it was produced by Dwell magazine. If you watch through the end there is video of Kidd singing with his band is Artbreak.
Hope the buffering doesn’t suck for you! I had to let it all load and then come back to it.
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Covering the covers
Across the pond, The Financial Times is running a periodic “check in” with current book covers. They’ve only picked 4 so far, but the insight from the news staff as been fairly good. They actually take the time to discuss some of the designers influences and frames of reference for each of the covers. I hope they keep it up.
What’s fun is that they are not just reviewing the covers of new releases. So you never know what might turn up. So far, the Molloy cover is my favorite. Very Alvin Lustig. And they say the spine has no title, author or publisher emblem, which would seem to make it one of the more useless jackets designed.
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A bunch of Chip Kidd
The folks over at GalleyCat posted a link to mediabistro’s design blog unbeige which featured a year-end wrap up of Chip Kidd highlights. If you’re interested in bookcover design, Kidd news is always colorful and insightful.
I especially liked this article in The Telegraph, but only in the celeb-news junkie kinda way. Not sure why it’s important that I know what Kidd has over his sofa, but I enjoyed the piece none-the-less. Sort of a pop-ish look, at the man that puts out some of the best book covers, on the planet.
Also, here is a link to the USA Today page which is posting the serialized version of Kidd’s sophomore novel effort The Lerners.
Ok, enough with the love-fest…
