Changethethought™

You can now pre-order It’s Nice That Issue #3 though their online Shop. The recent issue features the best from their blog in the last 6 months. Inside this latest edition are interviews with graphic design legend Milton Glaser, furniture design icon Tom Dixon, filmmaker Keith Schofield, illustrator Tom Gauld and fashion designer Sir Paul Smith. There are 42 pages of work featuring the likes of A2/SW/HK, Gregoire Alexandre, Leslie David, Christopher DeLorenzo, Anne De Vries, Daniel Eatock, Jochen Gerner, Marcelo Gomes, Charley Harper, William Hundley, Abi Huynh, Himi Kozue, Mårten Lange, Alastair Levy, Lucy and Bart, Susanne Ludwig, Livia Marin, Aakash Nihalani, Jasmine Raznahan, Isabella Rozendaal, SpY, Damjan Stanković, John Paul Thurlow, Adam Voorhes, Cardon Webb, Taizo Yamamoto.

It’s an amazingly impressive publication they have managed to pull together and terribly exciting that they have been able to wrangle interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. The pre-orders will ship March 31st and the issue officially drops April 1st. To put the cherry on top of an already large sundae, the issue also arrives with an oversized large-scale (980 x 550mm) screen print by Parra. The issue is available for the sincerely affordable price (even for Americans) of £10.00. Hot damn.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Editorial, Graphic Design, It's Nice That Issue 3

In a collaboration with the AIDS awareness fund (RED), book publisher Penguin commissioned a team of designers and typographers to create 8 new covers for Penguin Classics. Each cover uses a quote pulled from the text. Three of the eight covers featured were designed in-house by Penguin Press, with the remaining covers created by Nathan Burton, Studio Frith, FUEL, Grey318, and Non-Format (whose cover you can see above). It’s a great project and would have been fantastic to be a part of but (if you don’t mind me expressing my personal opinion here) I had mixed feelings about the covers myself. I felt like the executions were sometimes a little off for the subject matter. Regardless, it is nice to see Penguin branching out and doing something different.

You can see all the covers at CR.

written by Christopher | tags: (RED), Aids awareness fund, Books, Penguin, Typography

The brilliant people behind It’s Nice That have published a book detailing the process involved in creating each individual project for the 4th annual If You Could Collaborate exhibition currently showing at the A Foundation Gallery, Rochelle School in London. Included are original sketches to the final pieces exhibited.

Contributing collaborators include: Anthony Burrill, Fred Butler, Margaret Calvert, Alison Carmichael, Marion Deuchars, Sara Fanelli, Karl Grandin, George Hardie, Hellovon, Mario Hugo, Riitta Ikonen, Oliver Jeffers, Max Lamb, Chrissie Macdonald, Michael Marriott, David OReilly, Damien Poulain, Praline, Rob Ryan, Timothy Saccenti, Leonardo Sonnoli, Julien Vallée, Craig Ward, Job Wouters, Roel Wouters and Ian Wright.

You can purchase a copy of the book here.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Books, If You Could Collaborate, Its Nice That

The RRR Project which stands for ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ invites participants to take a look around their environment and see what they can save, pick up and turn over to look at in a different way. The end result has been a mishmash of art, design, photography, illustration from some very talented people. The first effort was published as a free downloadable e-zine that was released to celebrate Earth Day but RRR has recently gone into print with an absolutely gorgeous little book that is inspiring already just peering through jpegs. I first stumbled on the project last night while browsing FPO (For Print Only) and was really impressed. I am ordering a copy today and will be excited to receive it. The project helps support the Surfrider Foundation. You can see some of the art from the book in RRR’s Flickr pages and purchase a copy from their website. Fantastic work.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Books, Illustration, Print, The RRR Project

A breath taking stop motion advert by The New Zealand Book Council

written by Michael Lonergan | tags: Books, Cut out, New Zealand Book Council, Stop Motion

Eugène & Pauline have printed a big 12 page newspaper book featuring one-colored visuals from artist Geneviève Gauckler. The paper is a silk-screen-print handmade by the publishers. It looks like the pages could make for some nice posters to hang around the home or just to peruse while you make some orange juice and eat a croissant.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Books, Eugene & Pauline, Genevieve Gauckler

Planet has posted a brief interview with Sam Weber about his process for illustrating the classic William Golding novel Lord of the Flies that is soon to be released by The Folio Society

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Illustration, Lord of the Flies, Sam Weber

Who out there knew that Blu had published a book with Studiocromie of their mind-boggling drawings that was hand printed and signed by the artist. And why wasn’t I told before they were sold out. Damn.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Blu, Books, Drawing, Graffiti, Painting

Bird is a new project/book created by photographer Andrew Zuckerman. The book is a series of portraits detailing numerous bird species on simple white backgrounds. The imagery is really stunning and the amount of work it must have entailed to so painstakingly capture so many beautiful examples is inspiring to say the least.

written by Christopher | tags: Andrew Zuckerman, Bird, Books, Photography

Studio Culture is a new book available at United Editions that ‘provides a unique glimpse into the inner workings of 28 leading graphic design studios. In a series of penetrating interviews, the mechanics of building and maintaining a vibrant studio culture are laid bare with disarming frankness.‘ If you are looking to start a studio or would just like to know how one is started and run, then this looks like it could be a really useful book.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Graphic Design, Studio Culture, United Editions

You can indulge your inner-design nerd now without restraint at Counter-Print. They have a huge stash of out-of-print design-related publications that you can purchase at very reasonable prices. Beautiful covers in their collection.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Counter-Print, Graphic Design

Machine has a new book out entitled, ‘Designed By Machine’ featuring some of the great design work they have done over the years. I have seen their work several times before but only today realized I had never posted it. Spend some time browsing because there is some great stuff in there.

written by Christopher | tags: Amsterdam, Books, Graphic Design, Machine, Print

There is some really clean and tight print work in the portfolio of Alistair Web.

Via Grafik Cache.

written by Christopher | tags: Alistair Web, Books, Graphic Design, Posters, Print

Design/Illustration/Art and Art Culture blog It’s nice that has printed a 128 page book simply titled ‘It’s Nice That  Issue 1‘ that encompasses art and interviews from their favorite artists and designers that have appeared on their blog over the last 2 years. It’s Nice That covers a more tangible hands on and usually less digital side of the design industry than I tend to gravitate too, but I have been a fan of their site since it launched and they were a big inspiration for me to start this blog. They are really great people sincerely devoted to a real passion for art and design. Looking at the roster of people appearing in the book (including some personal favorites of mine), I have little doubt that for only $15 (American) it will be more than worth the purchase price. Not to mention that it is really a donation to a great group of people who provide the free service of daily thoughtfully curated inspiration.

It’s Nice That Issue 1 will feature work from, among several others Peter Callesen, Bryan Dalton, Karl Grandin, Happypets, Myoung Ho Lee, Oliver Jeffers, PES, Alex Trochut, Julien Vallee and Felice Varini. It also includes interviews with Jacob Dahlgren, Hort, Michael Hughes, Riitta Ikonen, Hugo & Marie, Andy Rementer and Roel Wouters as well as features by Andreas Konrath, Tao Lin, Rob Ryan, Stewart Smith and Ian Wright. That’s some lineup with some really heavy hitters in their that are sure to inspire. 

Congratulations to It’s Nice That on the project. I know I will be looking forward to issue 2 in the hopefully not-so-distant future.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Design Books, Graphic Design, Issue 1, Its Nice That

Stereographics is a book about the recent trend of creating dimensional graphic design. There has been a lot more of it this year as it seems designers have yearned to leave the confines of the screen. The book is only $40 and weighs in at 224 pages. It looks like theres is some really great content inside and you can pick one up here.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Cut and Paste, Graphic Design, Stereographics

All about Six By Ten:
“Brought to you by FormFiftyFive, Six by Ten is a unique collaboration between writers and designers. At FFF, we’re always meeting new and exciting creatives and we wanted to find a way to showcase their work and inspire people to great things.

We had a chat with our writer friend Laura Forman who introduced us to six-word stories, named our project and wrote the story for issue 01. So what’s a six-word story? exactly as it sounds. A story told in six words, no more, no less.

For each issue of Six by Ten, we’ll be commissioning a six-word story by a different writer and asking ten players from FFF to unleash their talents on it. So that’s one writer, six words and ten interpretations. We hope to produce a very special run of 60 editions of each issue.”

Kudos to the people at FormFiftyFive. Fantastic blog with guaranteed content run by some really great people with an absolute passion for design.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Form Fifty Five, Graphic Design, Six By Ten

Bunch’s new book ‘Bastardised‘ hit the shelves this week.

The book showcases the wealth of creativity, beauty and humour found
within 289 of the Bunchisms specially selected from 750 contributions.

The hardback, 208 page book was printed in Croatia by Kratis, with
paper by Igepa and was self published by Bunch.

It’s available from our online shop and Magma from the 1st November.

The specs:
170 x 235 mm
Maxi Offset 170 g/m2 paper
Hard back 3 mm thick cover
Coated with Maxi Silk 120 g/m2 then matt laminated
Limited edition of 1500
Hand numbered (0001 - 1500)

written by Christopher | tags: Bastardised, Books, Bunch, Graphic Design

Artism is an independent organisation aiming to create a book bursting with artists/graphic designers work which will be sold to raise money for the National Autistic Society charity through the use of Art.We will gladly accept any donation of services or money.

All proceeds go to The National Autistic Society.

This is a really great project with a unique humanitarian slant and I encourage anyone interested to submit a piece and get involved. I will be contributing something on behalf of Changethethought since they have just extended the deadline until November 30th. If you can make the time please contribute.

You can read about the submission guidelines here.

written by Christopher | tags: Art for Autism, Artism, Books, Contests, Submission