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]]> Sadly, the original Star Wars trilogy conceptual artist, Ralph McQuarrie passed away 3 March from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Only just a week later, french comic book artist Jean Giraud (known as Moebius), probably best known for the western series Blueberry and the science fiction books The Incal died 10 March of cancer.

]]> 0 BACK ISSUES http://monovektor.com/2011/09/back-issues/ http://monovektor.com/2011/09/back-issues/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:18:14 +0000 http://monovektor.com/?p=1244 [more…]

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]]> I just ordered some back issues – five to be exact – of IdN a couple of days ago. Great mag with diverse, new topics in every issue. I first heard about it when Nine Inch Nails art director Rob Sheridan twittered about being featured within as a glitch artist.

I was a complete stranger to this magazine and I had never before heard about glitch art (although I was always curious as to how he designed the With Teeth and The Social Network record sleeves) but it seemed good enough for a one-year subscription. No regrets there, every page in this magazine is jam-packed with enormously inspiring images and there’s not even a single advert as well. Apparently, I’ve missed out on quite a bit, but luckily they are available for back orders so these are the ones I have picked up. Looking forward…

IdN: v17n6 – The Minimalism Issue

IdN: v17n2 – The Retro Graphics Issue

IdN: v16n3 – The Typography Issue

IdN: v15n5 – The Geometric Issue

IdN: v15n4 – The Infographics Issue

]]> 0 MODERN MODERNISTS http://monovektor.com/2011/09/modern-modernists/ http://monovektor.com/2011/09/modern-modernists/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:58:45 +0000 http://monovektor.com/?p=1219 [more…]

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]]> Picked up this little gem at the Museum of Modern Art from my visit in Stocholm today. It’s yet another good looking book from Gestalten much in the same style as their previous book Naïve – Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design which I incidently bought on a trip to Berlin two years ago. The book is filled with beautiful images with that retro modernist style to them (kind of a no brainer as its title would suggest) although, as with its predecessor, I can’t help to think that the book lacks some in the text department. It would have been nice if there was at least something from the artists featured within. Still, it’s a great flip-through with high inspirational value.

]]> 0 NEW TOME OF TYPE http://monovektor.com/2011/07/new-tome-of-type/ http://monovektor.com/2011/07/new-tome-of-type/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:25:44 +0000 http://monovektor.com/?p=892 [more…]

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It has finally arrived, Designing Type by Karen Cheng. Apparently, this book is very hard to get hold of. It was sold out at Amazon so I ordered it from Barnes & Noble, got my ‘Your Order Was Shipped’-email and waited 10 days, only to get another mail saying that my order was canceled and my money would be refunded. That was it, no further info on why my book was returned to sender. After sending an angry mail demanding an explanation they claimed my address was somehow “undeliverable for an unknown reason”. Luckily, meantime, Amazon had gotten six more copies of the book in stock so I ordered it straight away. It took four days. Express delivery, totally worth it!

If the reviews I’ve read are to be trusted this is probably The Book of type design and no other book is even close to be as thorough. I have not yet had the time to sit down and read the whole thing but my first impression is that it is so full of information and minute details that it is almost overwhelming!

A good and very comprehensive review of the book from The Designers Review of Books can be found here.

]]> 2 INFOGRAPHIC INSPIRATION http://monovektor.com/2011/05/infographic-inspiration/ http://monovektor.com/2011/05/infographic-inspiration/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 10:01:23 +0000 http://monovektor.com/?p=555 [more…]

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]]> I just came home from an all to short weekend trip to Barcelona. Very beautiful city with great food and wonderful architecture. Almost immediately I stumbled upon this great art bookshop. This always causes me trouble and despair as there are just too many books to flip through. I am probably every sales clerks worst costumer, spending lots of time looking at books and rarely buying anything as I tend to get too overwhelmed and indecisive. Guess this must have been this overly-paranoid-I-would-steal-something clerks lucky day as I finally setteled for this one.Infographics, when done properly, is just wonderful to look at! I’ve read about it before but I have never looked inside. Great stuff and I will probably buy the sequel as well. Just need to let this one sink in for a while first.

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