New Writing

Heroes

Lovely Spanish Stamps. 

Pelican

Poetry

I'm still looking for poetry to use for my last project, which is going to have to be an 'ongoing' project (like all the other projects I haven't managed to get finished on time...)

I will post the results as I find them.

More old books

More lovely old book covers, bought for only 50p! There are so many places in Brighton that charge extortionate amounts of money for anything old or 'vintage' and 'retro', which I think is a little unfair to us skint students! Anyhow, the good thing about going back home to good old Guildford is that people don't really value things like this so much, so I can pick things up in a car boot sale for next to  nothing. A few weeks ago I got 10 Roald Dahl books for only £2. Happy days!

More Stamps

I never thought I would get into stamp collecting....

More pretty packaging

Another find in Spain that arrived in the post the other day from Barney. I do like mail.

Oscar Wilde

Another cool penguin cover

the medium is the massage

Not the greatest of Penguin covers but the content makes up for it.  It's a bit of a bizarre mish mash of photography typography and illustration all trying to make the point that society is shaped by the way we communicate and not what we communicate. The blurb is a review by A. M. Schlesinger Jr 'It is a chaotic combination of bland assertion, astute guesswork, fake analogy, dazzling insight, hopeless nonsense, shockmanship, showmanship, wisecracks and oracular mystification, all mingling cockily and indiscriminately in an endless random monologue. It also, in my judgement, contains a deeply serious argument.' That says it all really.

more Pearson

Good stuff!

David Pearson

I think that all creative people sometimes see someone else's work and think 'God, I wish that I did that' and I feel like that about every single book cover that David Pearson has done. If you're into books and beautiful design check him out here.

However beautiful the books look on screen, it doesn't compare to how they are! Most are embossed and come on a really nice thick stock. I've got my hands on a lot of his great ideas series, more to follow!

Germany

Nice 1970s German map of Hamburg rescued from my Dad's cull of books. I have so many treasures! more to follow.

more type

More gorgeous type poached from library books. This one is called Letter Press: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury. I have it permanently on loan!

Ornamental Type

We've just been set a new project looking at type in the days before Macs. I've just been doing lots of research and come across some gorgeous victorian posters and type setters books.

New (old) Book

I was looking around Two way Books in Brighton today looking for some books to diplay my penguin covers on when i found this little gem for only 20p! It's a childrens Music book but using colour to teach all the different notes. In the middle photo you can see there's a cut out paper thing that you can stick over the keys on a piano to help yo learn! And at the back there's space to write your own music.

Pelican

The maker of the coolest book covers: Pelican.

Records!

When I went home at the weekend my dad was having a clear out, which normally means I get a whole load of books, maps and stationary. But he's recently bought a new turntable, so I got his old one! not only that but a whole stack of records so big I can't even carry them. Before I had a few records and used my housemate's record player to listen to them, but no more! I will post some more of the covers another time! right now I'm off to play them ALL.

sewing

I just got back to brighton and I'm feeling the need to procrastinate further by catching up on some sewing instead of doing some proper work!

ginger

nice little beer mat... lives on the wall next to my desk.