Frankenfont 12 Oct 2011 | 04:36 am

The Frankenfont Project is a limited edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein assembled from various PDF files found on the Internet. The book starts “coherently” in a mix of Helvetica, Arial, and Times...

Magnifying glass not included 28 Jan 2011 | 07:30 am

Came across this peculiar item on Svpply. “How delightful,” I thought, “a smudge.” Not so. A closer look reveals an offset print of Homer’s Iliad, printed at a “resolution” of 30 words per square cen...

Book design by the linear foot 8 Jan 2011 | 04:45 am

Thatcher Wine is a different kind of book designer. He’s an interiors designer who specializes in filling space with books. Projects include themes, custom dust jackets, and art projects built out of...

From the desk of Peter Mendelsund 21 Oct 2010 | 07:11 am

I’ve been in Mendelsund’s office a few times, and it is overwhelming. There’s so much amazing work laying around you’re not entirely sure what to do with yourself. See a bunch of photos with captions...

Untitled 21 Oct 2010 | 02:36 am

Untitled 20 Oct 2010 | 03:31 am

Untitled 19 Oct 2010 | 07:10 am

(apologies for the total lack of designer credits on this post.)

C O D E X 18 Oct 2010 | 02:03 pm

this would be a swell Halloween costume 28 Sep 2010 | 05:44 am

From a Penguin Malaysia “Unputdownable” ad campaign, via This Isn’t Happiness

John Gall, The Design Bureau 4 Aug 2010 | 04:09 pm

“The re-working, dealing with all the feedback (some warranted, some moronic) ‘make this bigger’, ‘make this smaller’, ‘my psychic thinks it should be blue’—that is what separates the men from the boy...