Jessica Hische shows off her design students’ magnificent work.
Out of Print Clothing is a t-shirt company which celebrates the designs of classic—often out of date—book covers. It’s surprising how well some of them work. Plus, for every shirt purchased, Out of Print donates a book to a community in need with Books For Africa.
On the day of his passing, remember J.D. Salinger by reading him. While Catcher in The Rye is really all that, may I suggest you pick up Nine Stories, one of the finest story collections ever? Read, shudder, laugh, think.
Catcher in The Rye is a great study in American literature, but I agree, Nine Stories, Franny & Zooey, and even Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, are the best books I’ve ever read. RIP J.D.
Apple has introduced iBooks (I feel like I’ve heard that name before…). The home interface for iBooks is very comparable to the Classics app. The reading interface looks very pleasant, using a two-page layout when in landscape mode and one-page when in portrait. Books will be purchasable through an online store, and use the ePub standard for e-books (whereas the Amazon Kindle use a proprietary format).
The Book Cover Archive posts on the Top Ten Covers of the ’00s.
Salinger’s Nine Stories is my favorite collection of short stories to date, so this is like discovering a bit of gold. These twenty-two stories, published in various publications from 1940–1965, look like a fantastic addition to the collection.
A lot of my friends, colleagues, and flat-out heros have released some excellent books recently. I’ve mentioned a few of them, but I think it would be fun to run a giveaway and help spread some of this fine knowledge around the community. Here are the books I am giving away:
To participate, just leave a reply below with the number corresponding to the book you want most, a quick note about what type of content you’d like to see more of on this blog, and your Twitter username. I’ll select winners randomly at the end of the week. Also, make sure you’re following me on Twitter so I can DM the details to the winners.
So, which book would you like?
Designing With Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman, is one of those books that every web designer worth their salt has in their library. The third edition, which is almost complete, looks like a great improvement over the first two classics. Co-authored by Ethan Marcotte, the third edition will cover a bevy of new topics like HTML5, web fonts, and CSS3 — all with an added emphasis on “how” in addition to “why”.
Save 37% by pre-ordering the book on Amazon, or learn more about it through the mini-site or this blog post.
Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.
Very friendly Monster Friends poster series available from Familytree. The Kracken, Yeti, Loch Ness, & Sasquatch, by Alex Pearson, ...
This article is specifically about pixel “density”, a relatively new concern to digital designers. In the mobile environment, screen resolution has...
