Frank 151 Seventh Letter Issue
The latest chapter of Frank 151 is focused on the Seventh Letter Crew. If you can’t find a hard copy, you can download a pdf here, or click the links below to take you to specific features. Regardless, this is something you should take your time with and enjoy.
Best magazine to work for…
Would you believe it if we said O? Oprah Winfrey just gave her staff $10k each, and an iPad to commemorate the magazine’s 10th anniversary. Although, reading “The total number of staff members who received the gifts was not made immediately available” in the NY Times makes us wonder two things: Was this just an upper/middle management perk? And, if not, will it be included an episode of her show?
skateboard history
Well Holy Shit, The Chrome Ball Incident is without a doubt the best Skate-related website we’ve ever found. Get ready to spend the day here.
June 15, 2010 | by texas reason | In Advertising, Culture, Printed Matter, skateboarding, Slideshows | No Comments
YUICHI YOKOYAMA
Shift Magazine has a nice interview with Yuichi Yokoyama around his nex exhibition All Documentation on Neo Manga which is currently on display at the Kawasaki Museum in Japan.
Avalanche Magazine
Founded in 1968 by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar, Avalanche Magazine was an avante-garde art magazine that published 13 issues from 1970 to 1976. Now available through Printed Matter is a boxed facsimile edition of Avalanche’s complete run published by Primary Information.
“The publication, 1,016 pages and illustrated throughout, is housed in a heavy duty, laminated, archival box measuring 10.5 x 19.5 x 2.5 inches. The first eight issues measure 9.25 x 9.25 inches and are exact facsimiles of the originals; the subsequent five tabloid-sized issues, now bound as a single volume measuring 9.25 x 13.5 inches, have been reduced slightly in scale from the original format.”
Available here
The Juxtapoz David Choe Issue
This bad boy landed in my mailbox a couple days ago. Damn, it is a good issue. Reminded me of all the things I enjoy about David Choe.
Picture of the Day
A brief look through a Dave Schubert Zine circa 2002. Here
GROTESK – A DECADE OF SWISS DESIGN LOST IN BROOKLYN
We’re going to go ahead and recommend that you buy this book.
Grotesk, aka Kimou Meyer, is a Swiss designer who moved to NYC in 1999 to work for a European design agency and has been there ever since. In the process of discovering the unique visual language of the Brooklyn streets, things such as hand painted signs, sport logos, street bombing, etc, he found that his approach to design and the creation of his own work took a drastic 180 degree turn.
Porno For The Blind
Tactile Mind
“tactile mind is a handmade thermoform book consisting of 17, 2-D tactile photographs on white thermoform plastic pages with the visual image and descriptive Braille accompaniment. This book measures 11 inches x11.5 inches , and is approximately 6 inches wide. It is held together by a simple spiral binding which allows the convenience of reading each diagram on a flat surface or removing pages.”
Buy the entire book or just single pages here
Go Buy Now: Robert Longo
Robert Longo Untitled (Caddy), 2009
Archival inkjet print of a charcoal drawing
20×40 inches
Edition of 30, signed and numbered
buy it here
put it on paper with Postalco notebooks
Postalco notebooks are beautiful. The cover is pressed cotton fabric, and the grid-lined paper, a wet dream. They recently did a collaboration with Opening Ceremony. Check them out!
World War covers of Life
Life magazine’s emphasis was on photojournalism. Whoever art directed the covers from 1939 until 1945 was a beast.
See the magazine collection here
doane paper
This may not seem like much but, Doane Paper combines Graph and traditional rule paper together. Perfect.
