Favorite JS booksmith/art publisher Viction:ary has a few new titles that you won’t find at your local Barnes & Noble, which are well worth your cash/credit spendage:

  • Simply Material is a visual compendium of media to use as your canvas. Can you liberate the art from concrete or harness the awesome potential of epoxy resin?
  • Fashion Wonderland sounds like a fairly pretentious theme park, but contents of this book are pretty arresting. Tons of designers have contributed the illustrations and art they take their aesthetic cues from.
  • Illustration - Play puts the spotlight on 23 international artists and their unique illo medium. Paper cutting, stitchery, hand knit, fabric piecing, origami, patchwork, and more are represented.
  • Type Addicted is a thorough read for the font aficionado; see how real typographical artists slice up the Roman alphabet.

Related: Viction:ary Archive

Tags: Art (703), Books (120), Design (1546), New Releases (275), Typography (28)

The Ad Mad Wednesday, 03.05.08 @ 7:33 pm

Just being picky here, but don’t you think “type addicted” cover is too…Helvetica?

I mean come on, twe all saw that on a thousand places ever since the movie was announced…using a side-aligned big size Helvetica on a cover should be banned for a while! :D

I took a look inside on the publishers site and it looks really interesting though!


Christopher Cox Wednesday, 03.05.08 @ 9:48 pm

Also not to be too picky here, but being picky is what they pay an Art Director to be: is ‘Type is one of the graphic elements that designers always get addicted to play with.’ a real sentence? It sounds like poorly translated English. Maybe they should have contracted a copyrighter for that one.


Heather Snodgrass Wednesday, 03.05.08 @ 9:51 pm

or just a hong kong-based publisher well known for their “poorly translated” (or kitschy) english =)


Matt Thursday, 03.06.08 @ 9:48 pm

Yeah, the actual copywriting on that cover is terrible.




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