An interesting peek at drawings from some of the world's fashion celebrities and upcoming designers.
"Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks" by Hywel Davies explores the creative processes of contemporary fashion practitioners. For designers, sketchbooks are companions that capture and facilitate research, support design development and communicate new fashion ideas. Going beyond an instrument for drawing, sketchbooks secure a varied range of that inspires, fuels and transforms initial fashion ideas into final concepts..."
Learn more at Urban Sketchers
Sketches provide a truer reflection of a designer's thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving
strategies than can be had by simply viewing finished projects. Highly
personal and idiosyncratic, sketchbooks offer an arena for unstructured
exploration — a space free from all budgetary and client constraints.
Sketchbook
aims to elevate these books — visually arresting objects in their own
right — from mere ephemera to important documents that provide valuable
insights into the creative process.
Can't wait to get our hands on this.
Learn more.
I really thought this was some kind of a journal. Unfortunately, its not.
"Angus Hyland and his assistant Fabian Herrmann have designed the hardback edition of Penguin Books’ Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories. The book collects together all of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories in a single volume for the first time and includes stories that inspired the Bond film classics From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights and of course, Quantum of Solace, the latest in the series..."
Danny Gregory's new book will be released next month and Elisa Bartels sent us this interesting video link:
"A quick flip through the pages of my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers..."
Do you know any of the featured artists?
Maria Rocco write to tell us about this new book:
"In 1970, while sifting through war documents in Vietnam, Fred Whitehurst, an American lawyer serving with a military intelligence dispatch, found a diary no bigger than a pack of cigarettes, its pages handsewn together. Written between 1968 and '70 by Tram, a young, passionate doctor who served on the front lines, it chronicled the strife she witnessed until the day she was shot by American soldiers earlier that year at age 27. Whitehurst, who was greatly moved by the diary and smuggled it out of the country, returned it to Thuy's family in 2005; soon after, it was published as a book in Vietnam, selling nearly half a million copies within a year and a half. The diary is valuable for the perspective it offers on war—Thuy is not obsessed with military maneuvers but rather the damage, both physical and emotional, that the war is inflicting on her country. Thuy also speaks poignantly about her patients and the compassion she feels for them. Unfortunately, the writing, composed largely of breathless questions and exclamations, is monotonous at times, somewhat diminishing the book's power..."
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Rob Walker's "Consumed" column in The New York Times Magazine featured Jessica Helfand's new book, "Scrapbooks: An American History into the digital age."
"Many of the images reproduced in “Scrapbooks: An American History,” by Jessica Helfand, date back 50, 80, even 100 years. Reproduced in color and spread across wide pages, they are treated as worthy examples of creativity. The anonymous scrapbook creators could hardly have imagined such a fate for their work. Whatever audience they had in mind, it surely did not include a design critic ruminating over this “evocative” and “largely overlooked class of artifact.” In the 21st century, of course, scrapbooking is a multibillion-dollar affair, with specialty publications and businesses serving a huge market of self-documentarians. By and large, their work has little aesthetic resemblance to what Helfand has compiled. And while contemporary “scrappers” may not be thinking about future historians, a good number are thinking about an audience — and it isn’t just the grandkids..."
[Cross posted at our partner site, Moleskinerie.com]
Rob Walker's "Consumed" column in The New York Times Magazine featured Jessica Helfand's new book, "Scrapbooks: An American History into the digital age."
"Many of the images reproduced in “Scrapbooks: An American History,” by Jessica Helfand, date back 50, 80, even 100 years. Reproduced in color and spread across wide pages, they are treated as worthy examples of creativity. The anonymous scrapbook creators could hardly have imagined such a fate for their work. Whatever audience they had in mind, it surely did not include a design critic ruminating over this “evocative” and “largely overlooked class of artifact.” In the 21st century, of course, scrapbooking is a multibillion-dollar affair, with specialty publications and businesses serving a huge market of self-documentarians. By and large, their work has little aesthetic resemblance to what Helfand has compiled. And while contemporary “scrappers” may not be thinking about future historians, a good number are thinking about an audience — and it isn’t just the grandkids..."
[Cross posted at our partner site, Moleskinerie.com]
A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. This project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—the very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoid—creep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the reader’s attention to the overlooked.
A Field Guide to Weeds
By Kim Beck
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc. 2007
Cloth cover, sewn-bound, 96 p., 17.5 x 11.8cm, edition 750
ISBN: 978-0-89439-026-5
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