Archive for July, 2009
Big congratulations are in order to my good friend Ashley Wood, who got the feature rights for his graphic novel World War Robot (for which I designed the logo) snapped up by none other than Jerry Bruckheimer.
Very cool indeed!
Last night at the Eisner Awards ceremony Comic Book Tattoo won the Best Anthology Award!
Massive congratulations to Rantz Hoseley and all our fellow creators involved with the book! On top of that we were also nominated in the Best Publication Design category.
Its great to have contributed in our own way to CBT and I believe the beers are on Rantz.
This month’s haul in no particular order:
• Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon Books)
• Wednesday Comics #1—3 (DC Comics)
• The Dylan Dog Case Files TPB (Dark Horse Comics)
• Incognito #5 (Marvel/Icon)
• Phonogram — The Singles Club #4 (Image Comics)
• Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder #1 (of 5) (Dark Horse Comics)
• B.P.R.D. 1947 #1 (Dark Horse Comics)
• Batman and Robin #2 (DC Comics)
• Hellblazer #257 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Fantastic Four #568 (Marvel Comics)
• Captain America: Reborn #1 (of 5) (Marvel Comics)
• Gravel #12 (Wrap cover variant) (Avatar Press)
• No Hero #6 (Wrap cover variant) (Avatar Press)
• Crossed #6 (Avatar Press)
Edited to add (seems like I missed some titles last week!):
• WWR #2 (IDW Publishing)
• Air #10 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• The Unwritten #3 (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Ultimatum #5 (Marvel Comics)
I just received the news that Graphic Design, Referenced — a book on the language, applications, and history of graphic design — edited by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit (of Under Consideration fame), has been released.
Graphic Design, Referenced serves as a comprehensive source of information and inspiration by documenting and chronicling the scope of contemporary graphic design, stemming from the middle of the twentieth century to today.
I’m pleased to say that the alternate design of my Logan’s Run poster (the black one) has been included in the book for the chapter on Practice, which “highlights some of the most iconic work produced that not only serve as examples of best practices, but also illustrate its potential lasting legacy”.
BLDGBLOG Book Launch, originally uploaded by moleitau.
Last night I went to the launch of the Geoff Manaugh’s BLDG BLOG book at the Architectural Association in London (I’m somewhere stuck in the back in the above photo). Not something I usually do because functions like that can, in my opinion, become quite stuffy and a bit pretentious (I’m not a big fan of gallery opening nights). But this intrigued me, in part because Warren was raving about it (and since we have mutual friends I though I’d drop by and say Hello to him), and anything that combines design, Sci-Fi and speculative thinking gets my vote.
Talking in your book about buildings causing earthquakes because of their weight and location is interesting. Extrapolating that fact into ideas of how to weaponize that, or force shut fault lines by clever urban planning is taking it to a whole other level. And thats just one tiny bit of a book filled with all kinds of amazing ideas of building a science fiction habitat.
So yeah, in a very roundabout way I’m saying you should buy the book (and also because its a very nicely designed printed object).
After 4 years my friendly nagging has paid of, and my wife Liz finally has a portfolio-slash-blog site (apart of course from Mr and Mrs M). Personally, I really like the way she photographed her work in a very informal, almost throwaway manner in our home, giving a sense of tactility to the work — instead of the current trend of shooting everything against a sterile grey background.
This month’s issue of Computer Arts has a double amount of Kleber goodness for you. First there’s me saying things like —
“It’s going to be pretty much required from all agencies that content has to work on everything.”
— in an round-table discussion on new puritanism in (online) advertising, while a few pages down our own Ben Wise shows you some nifty CSS and JQuery tricks to spruce up your site.