“An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds began with a very simple idea, that I wanted to photograph budgies. I met a great deal of people (mostly men) who were very knowledgeable about their hobby and only too happy to share it with me. Their enthusiasm became infectious so that by simply photographing a species I felt I was adding it to my collection.”
The book is available here.
Words and photos: Courtesy of Luke Stephenson.
Susan Sontag’s most poignant meditations on love, in diary excerpts hand-lettered and illustrated by artist Wendy MacNaughton.
Let’s Make some Great Fingerprint Art
All you need are fingers and ink to create great art!
Animation and Direction animade.tv/
Sound Aaron Lampert
Drawings from the book “Let’s Make some Great Fingerprint Art” by Marion Deuchars
more information and activities at letsmakesomegreatart.com
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Haruki Murakami
Brand Bible explores and examines all aspects of branding from its early beginnings in the Elizabethan era to its modern apotheosis in brands like Martha Stewart and Disney.
With thematic sections exploring key areas of branding-such as electronics, beauty and transportation-as well as interviews with leading brand strategists and designers, this book is the definitive guide to the cultural phenomenon called branding that has defined modern times.
The book features interviews with leading designers and brand strategists including Michael Bierut (Pentagram), Matteo Bologna (Mucca Design), Christine Mau (Kimberly-Clark), and Steff Geissbuhler (C&G Partners); profiles of branding milestones introduced by companies such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Lacoste, and Apple; case studies of game changers in branding, among them Google, Starbucks, and MTV; examinations of how multimedia brands like Playboy and Oprah have succeeded; and a survey of Western companies that have succeeded and failed in emerging markets and how brands from emerging markets are on the ascent.
Brand Bible gives unparalleled insight into its evolution and its role in our identities as individuals and societies. Buy here
Pincel de Zorro.
Hug Codinach’s project to promote the book Pincel de Zorro, now in its second edition, published by Ediciones Ondina. An illustrated tale from the Spanish author Sergio A. Sierra, Pincel de Zorro is a whimsical story set in Japan, full of tenderness, magic and sadness. The story is complemented by unique illustrations, all of which are hand drawn by Meritxell Ribas using a complex technique called grattage, in which paint is scraped off the canvas with a pointed tool.
Pincel de Zorro tells the tale of Shiori, a little girl whose life changes the same night her father brings home a dead fox from a hunting trip. Mysteriously when her parents decide to sell the precious skin of the animal, they receive a visit from a magical woman.
For more information visit pinceldezorro.es
Direction, Design and Animation: Hug Codinach
Illustrations: Meritxell Ribas
Text: Sergio Sierra
Music: Albert Alay
Designers & Books is devoted to publishing lists of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as personally important, meaningful, and formative—books that have shaped their values, their worldview, and their ideas about design.
From Vitruvius to William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright to Edith Wharton to Le Corbusier to Paul Rand—there has always been a particularly special and robust relationship between designers and books: reading them, writing them, designing them, collecting them, learning from them, and being inspired by them.
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