A City of Books

Watch this great animation This is Where We Live, a film for 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary.

Penguin 75

I've started reading Penguin 75 at the swimming pool today, and it's really delightful. Penguin art director Paul Buckley asked 75 designers and authors about the cover of their book. Some of them are hilarious, like the first one of 100 facts about pandas, in which Gregg Kulick tells about his his method design (the technique that designers employ to become one with their graphics). See bellow, I hope you can read it, but better: buy the book!

I wish I was an editor here.

Maira Kalman's Principles of Uncertainty

Around the corner from my B&B at Potrero Hill is a charming, small book store. The owner is a fan of Maira Kalman. Of course I didn't know, but when I bought The Principles of Uncertainty the shop keeper went wild and showed me all the books she had of her. Admitted, while reading in bed I was directly fascinated too. About the story, the atmosphere and the whimsical paintings. The ultimate picture book for grown-ups. I'm going back tomorrow to buy some of the other ones.
If your not able to do that, look at Kalman's NY Times columns here, it's really worthwhile. http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/

Tod McLellan

I really like these photo's of Tod McLellan (www.toddmclellan.com), and look how he works at the video on his website > new work. Amazing!

Labels & Storytelling

I'm the kind of person that buys things because they look good. Even food. Or wine. Sometimes they taste horrible, but other times you have some real good stuff. In San Francisco I saw a marvellous exhibition today in the Museum of Modern Art: How wine became modern. As an editor I was totally charmed by the part of the Labels & Storytelling. It's a new phenomenon for me, but a lot of wine houses are telling stories now a days! Here are some of my favourites.
Also look at this superb website of Linnea Vineyards: https://www.linnaeavineyards.com/#3