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Color, Space, Style

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

I am beginning to see a trend with our dear friend Mr. Chris Grimley: he likes commas! Here is a very exciting piece of work, after long and labour intensive hours… and I got a free copy for contributing some illustrator time in a few of the illustrations below! hurrah!

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been caught reading…

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

quick! “name that font” folks! it is a new game… clues below!
what new books arrived on my doorstep this week?

{ book 1 }

{ book 2 }
that’s right!
{ book 1 } the new non-format book arrived, packed with projects galore, revealing an interesting evolution of a style and design philosophy. { book 2 } merz [...]

fall reading list

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

what are you reading? I just finished The Dud Avocado… and it was amazing.
“Anita Loos crossed with Allen Ginsberg” and seriousness without austere solemnity. and many witticisms, such as the following:
“A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.”

a sequel…

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

“quotation” of non-format’s design of sean wilsey’s memoir, from his mother Pat Montandon

supposedly, neither author approved of the design… and Montandon overheard someone in a bookstore say, “oh! a sequel!”

inspirations, part 2 : mechanics

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

with two parents as engineers, i am ashamed to confess at struggling through high school physics and maths. however, I always loved technical diagrams, mechanical drawings, and the library of old engineering books at my grandpa’s house. and, as an adult, and looking for mind benders, I am once again interested in the general how [...]

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