Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
So, as an avid fan of his books, I just finished Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, the man’s recent essay collection. The collection is very good, providing something a little more than previous works with essays that reflect on our need for recognition rather than just simply how our love lives are ruined by...
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Illustration Thursday:
6 Vintage Illustration Sets on Flickr
I ran out of time putting this together yesterday, so here’s this week’s Illustration Thursday: Vintage Illustrations, especially that from the 1950s-early 1970s, are some of my favorite things. The style, the use of line work, the color, printing process-it’s just all awesome. Anyways, I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite vintage...
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UPPERCASE Magazine
The lovely people up at the UPPERCASE Gallery in Calgary, O’Canada have put together and released their very first magazine, and it looks just awesome. It’s a quarterly issue magazine filled with awesome reading and design inspiration. Oh, how I wished I lived in Canada…. You can subscribe online, with the price a little deep...
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Awesome Idea : MagCloud
MagCloud is a great new(er) site where one can publish, print, and sell your very own magazines for very little money, and this looks like a fantastic idea. The site is free to join, and free for people to buy. You just upload the PDF of your magazine and these guys print and ship to...
Good Man is Hard to Find
I’ve been on a huge mid-century literature kick recently, beginning with purchasing “Catcher in the Rye” by Salinger at Borders with a coupon in February. Since then, I’ve read “Slaughter House 5,” “Franny & Zooey” and bought 3 John Updike collections. And I love the cover of this book. There’s been a lot of this...