On the occasion of the release of Exhausted Spectral Incantation, John Wiese’s 100th 7-inch record, Family Bookstore in Los Angeles will present a sound installation and a new monograph. The 150-page edition, titled 100 Seven Inch Records, graphically documents the last 13 years of his output in the format. Published through his imprint, Helicopter, it also features [...]
Category Archives: Graphic Design
John Wiese
May 24, 2011 – 10:12 am
John Wiese is an graphic designer, artist and musician based in Los Angeles. These are excerpts from his Circle Snare edition released through No Fun Productions in Brooklyn. John has recorded countless albums for numerous independent labels collaborating with the likes of Kevin Drumm, Lasse Marhaug, Merzbow, Evan Parker, Bruce Russell, Smegma and Nico Vascellari.
BYG Actuel
April 22, 2011 – 11:11 am
BYG Actuel was a series of avant-garde/free jazz records put out on the French label BYG Records in the late 1960’s. The understated and repetitive designs now make for some of the most iconic record covers ever released, and the music is still considered to be some of the most extreme recorded.
Pelican Books
February 24, 2010 – 4:54 pm
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).
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 [...]
