Pelican Books, a former division of Penguin Books, published some really great book cover designs from the 1930’s through the 1980’s. See many more at Things Magazine (via Binky the doormat).
Category Archives: Graphic Design
Charles Joseph Minard – Napoleon’s Russia Campaign 1812
September 4, 2009 – 7:35 am
This is Charles Joseph Minard’s graphic representation of Napoleon’s march to Moscow during his Russian campaign in 1812. In a single two-dimension image, the chart summarizes numerous factors that led to Napoleon’s failure. One can see his army’s size and direction, their distance from Paris, and the temperature. Drawn in 1869, luminary of American statistics [...]
Trace A Face
August 20, 2009 – 5:34 am
The publication Trace a Face is the result of a collaboration between the Swedish design duo Konst & Teknik and Amsterdam-based graphic designer Jonathan Puckey. Thirteen visual artists and designers were asked to literally trace a face using the Delaunay Raster, a custom-written Scriptographer image vectorization tool for Adobe Illustrator created by Puckey. Some of the results [...]
Slavs and Tatars – A Thirteenth Month Against Time
July 12, 2009 – 5:39 am
These images are taken from Slavs and Tatars‘ brilliant A Thirteenth Month Against Time. Released in a limited edition of 100, it can be downloaded as a pdf here.
Founded by Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi, and now working in collaboration with Boy Vereecken and Victoria Camblin, Slavs and Tatars’ work focuses on the area east of the former Berlin Wall [...]
