Bookmarking

...taken to a new level :)

http://www.icoeye.com/blog/?p=125

paper in action

“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each
designer can look for a solution appropriate to his
personal style. But one must learn how to use the
grid; it is an art that requires practice. ”
Josef Müller-Brockmann

print

shows an innovative witty idea for a boring annnual report..


follow the link :

http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/13/well-done-a-food-company-annual-report-that-has-to-be-cooked-first/

Talks Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/432

oye cutlet

A student magazine at Srishti.
Issue can be downloaded from the cutlet blog .
(1.5 mb, i think nid net speeds should manage it)

Any idea what's happening with voicebox?

Thought for the year

Johnson banks' look at the year that was.

http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/

Stylepedia

I bought this book last year at Landmark, chennai. Most of you have had a look at it. I've taken to poring over it lately, and there is a lot of stuff in this that needs to be shared.

Stylepedia deals with the different styles of graphic design that have existed...not necessarily conforming to the few genres that we are aware of. Starting this week, each post will be about a style+related internet links etc. It would be great if you guys could add to this, or if discussions could happen, its something I think we've all missed out till now. :)

till then, here's a review of stylepedia
http://www.designtaxi.com/features.jsp?id=331

ABC3D

From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters move and change before your eyes. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there's U... Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who has never before been published in this country. She lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

Green Chair Press...book making

For people (like me) who suffer from OCBBD---Obsessive Compulsive Book Binding Disorder (thanks to Shenoy for coining that :D)

http://www.greenchairpress.com/

My landmark visit.

What better way to spend a Diwali morning that to make a trip to Landmark? (the new one at Chennai is beautiful i must say, quite useless for graphic novels though).
Trips like this make me hope that one day i'll earn enough to buy ALL those books that I set my eyes on. But for now, I'll content myself with just browsing through them in the shop itself.

A few books that caught my fancy.

Making and Breaking the Grid
by Timothy Samara



Comics, Comix and Graphic novels
A history of comic art
by Roger Sabin



Marks of Excellence
by Per Mollerup


Area
by editors of Phaidon

And a book on illustration, which I'm unable to find on Amazon.com, which btw, gives cool previews of some of the pages, do try having a look!

typo.

http://www.owlsoup.com/foamtrain/index.html

contains--
anatomy.glossary.10rules.classify.history.how to.people.books.apps

image>>> http://www.fstopimages.com/collections/showimage.php?id=1924&c=init

The Graphic Language of Neville Brody...page by page

This might be useful since we dont have the second book by Brody in the KMC...

http://www.typogabor.com/neville-brody/

cheers
Merryn

all TIME graphic novels

"Graphic novel" is a vague moniker that gets applied to any extended form of comics, including non-fiction and short story collections. But here, at least, the term fits. Following the rules of the All TIME 100 books — focusing exclusively on book-length fictional stories originally written in English — here are the All TIME top ten graphic novels, in alphabetical order by title


http://www.time. com/time/ 2005/100books/ 0,24459,graphic_ novels,00. html

book alert!

Designing Type by Karen Cheng . It's a bit expensive, so you could try heading to the nearest book store(crossword, landmark, odessey etc) and browse through it.
cheers.
click here for book review by PETER BILAK--http://www.typotheque.com/articles/designing_type_/

ps..The following is the editorial review as given in the amazon.com site for the same book



As one of a graphic designer’s most essential tools, typefaces influence the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often overlooked relationships between letters and shapes in a font.The book is illustrated with numerous diagrams that demonstrate visual principles and letter construction, ranging from informal progress sketches to final type designs and diagrams. A wide range of classic and modern typefaces is analyzed, including those from many premier contemporary type foundaries. Introductory essays and diagrams emphasize the history of type, the primary systems of typeface classification, the two main proportional systems for type, the parts of a letter, the effects of new technology on design methodology, the optical illusions that affect density and balance in letterforms, and the differences in form between basic serif typestyles. The book provides detailed guidelines for creating serif and sans serif letters, numbers, punctuation, and accents. As design clients increasingly call for original and custom typefaces, Designing Type is a superb reference for both students and professional graphic designers.

About the Author
Karen Cheng is a graphic designer and associate professor in the visual communications program at the University of Washington, Seattle.