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Lemon Magazine "Pop Culture With A Twist"
If you haven't seen this magazine, do yourself a favor and pick it up. Amazingly creative and wonderful to look at and read. A real treat.
LEMON is a new, twice-yearly publication that stakes its claim at the intersection of 60s/70s Pop and 21st century hyper-culture. Lavishly illustrated with specially-commissioned work from vaunted artists and fresh talents alike, each edition presents readers with a richly detailed and thematically-focused experience. Editorially, LEMON is vintage LIFE re-imagined for a sophisticated contemporary audience, with intricacies and lavish production values conspiring to create a print experience rare in the world of magazines.
Each release contains uncommon coverage of intriguing personalities rarely featured in more conventional publications. Surprises are the stock-in-trade at LEMON: elaborate spot varnishes grace covers, and specially-formatted inserts exude the scent of citrus. Music coverage is served up in a richly-textured graphic novel format, rendering musicians as comic book heroes who recount personal experiences in-line with the issue’s theme. INTERVIEW Magazine was never this much fun!
MISSION
Today’s publishing landscape is dominated by mega-corporate titles that trade increasingly on uninspired fashion spreads, celebrity culture, and the cross-marketing of Hollywood properties. While valid entertainment fodder, that spectrum offers shrinking opportunities for a growing audience that craves a more authentic and engaging experience. Independently owned, published and exquisitely crafted, LEMON speaks to and for a culturally curious and creative consumer. A true grassroots enterprise, LEMON’s design and content are driven by gut divination and a singular innovative impulse. LEMON aims to upend category expectations by creating commercially viable products of immediate appeal and lasting value. At its core, LEMON is socially and culturally aware, positive and inclusive. Humor and beauty, commerce and craftsmanship all find a home between our pages.
PUBLISHED BY GUM
LEMON is the very latest creation from Kevin Grady and Colin Metcalf (www.GradyandMetcalf.com), the duo responsible for the award-winning art and design collectible GUM. GUM debuted in January 2003 to fanatical praise and rapidly sold out, and GUM2 premiered a year later to a similar response. As CBS Radio raved, “It must be seen to be believed like something you’d find in a museum shop on Jupiter. Rod Serling meets Andy Warhol meets Willie Wonka. Four Stars.”
Grady was previously the Design Director at Arnold Worldwide, working on the agency’s Truth anti-tobacco industry account, and Metcalf co-founded RES, the landmark entertainment festival and magazine. The LEMON editorial team is completed with designer/artist Adam Larson, comic-magazine guru Ian Sattler and writer Robert Bundy.
If you haven't seen this magazine, do yourself a favor and pick it up. Amazingly creative and wonderful to look at and read. A real treat.
LEMON is a new, twice-yearly publication that stakes its claim at the intersection of 60s/70s Pop and 21st century hyper-culture. Lavishly illustrated with specially-commissioned work from vaunted artists and fresh talents alike, each edition presents readers with a richly detailed and thematically-focused experience. Editorially, LEMON is vintage LIFE re-imagined for a sophisticated contemporary audience, with intricacies and lavish production values conspiring to create a print experience rare in the world of magazines.
Each release contains uncommon coverage of intriguing personalities rarely featured in more conventional publications. Surprises are the stock-in-trade at LEMON: elaborate spot varnishes grace covers, and specially-formatted inserts exude the scent of citrus. Music coverage is served up in a richly-textured graphic novel format, rendering musicians as comic book heroes who recount personal experiences in-line with the issue’s theme. INTERVIEW Magazine was never this much fun!
MISSION
Today’s publishing landscape is dominated by mega-corporate titles that trade increasingly on uninspired fashion spreads, celebrity culture, and the cross-marketing of Hollywood properties. While valid entertainment fodder, that spectrum offers shrinking opportunities for a growing audience that craves a more authentic and engaging experience. Independently owned, published and exquisitely crafted, LEMON speaks to and for a culturally curious and creative consumer. A true grassroots enterprise, LEMON’s design and content are driven by gut divination and a singular innovative impulse. LEMON aims to upend category expectations by creating commercially viable products of immediate appeal and lasting value. At its core, LEMON is socially and culturally aware, positive and inclusive. Humor and beauty, commerce and craftsmanship all find a home between our pages.
PUBLISHED BY GUM
LEMON is the very latest creation from Kevin Grady and Colin Metcalf (www.GradyandMetcalf.com), the duo responsible for the award-winning art and design collectible GUM. GUM debuted in January 2003 to fanatical praise and rapidly sold out, and GUM2 premiered a year later to a similar response. As CBS Radio raved, “It must be seen to be believed like something you’d find in a museum shop on Jupiter. Rod Serling meets Andy Warhol meets Willie Wonka. Four Stars.”
Grady was previously the Design Director at Arnold Worldwide, working on the agency’s Truth anti-tobacco industry account, and Metcalf co-founded RES, the landmark entertainment festival and magazine. The LEMON editorial team is completed with designer/artist Adam Larson, comic-magazine guru Ian Sattler and writer Robert Bundy.
Link: Lemon Magazine
The Music of First Wave Hello
I don't know much about these guys. I happened upon them on iTunes and I love them. They are from San Diego. Their website doesn't seem to be working. I put a link to their MySpace page.Sample them at iTunes if you get a chance. The album is called The Lord and It's Penguin.
I don't know much about these guys. I happened upon them on iTunes and I love them. They are from San Diego. Their website doesn't seem to be working. I put a link to their MySpace page.Sample them at iTunes if you get a chance. The album is called The Lord and It's Penguin.
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain was born in New York City in 1956. He studied at Vassar College and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America before running kitchens at New York City's Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan’s. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Times, the Observer, Scotland on Sunday, the Face, Limb by Limb, Black Book and the Independent, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. He is currently the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles and lives in Manhattan.
Bourdain’s latest project, a travel and food series called Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, airs on the Travel Channel.
Bourdain had written two crime novels, Bone in the Throat (1995) and Gone Bamboo (1997), when his exposé of New York restaurants ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’ was published in The New Yorker in 1999. The article attracted huge attention in America and the UK and formed the basis of his memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. In 2002, Food Network broadcast a 22-part series in which Bourdain travelled the world in search of ‘extreme cuisine’. The resulting book, A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, became a bestseller in the US and the UK, and won the 2002 Guild of Food Writers Award for Food Book of the Year.
Published in October 2004, the Les Halles Cookbook is Anthony Bourdain’s guide to the strategies and techniques of classic bistro cooking. The book contains more than a hundred recipes from Brasserie Les Halles, all delivered in the ribald style of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour.
Anthony Bourdain was born in New York City in 1956. He studied at Vassar College and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America before running kitchens at New York City's Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan’s. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Times, the Observer, Scotland on Sunday, the Face, Limb by Limb, Black Book and the Independent, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. He is currently the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles and lives in Manhattan.
Bourdain’s latest project, a travel and food series called Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, airs on the Travel Channel.
Bourdain had written two crime novels, Bone in the Throat (1995) and Gone Bamboo (1997), when his exposé of New York restaurants ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’ was published in The New Yorker in 1999. The article attracted huge attention in America and the UK and formed the basis of his memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. In 2002, Food Network broadcast a 22-part series in which Bourdain travelled the world in search of ‘extreme cuisine’. The resulting book, A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, became a bestseller in the US and the UK, and won the 2002 Guild of Food Writers Award for Food Book of the Year.
Published in October 2004, the Les Halles Cookbook is Anthony Bourdain’s guide to the strategies and techniques of classic bistro cooking. The book contains more than a hundred recipes from Brasserie Les Halles, all delivered in the ribald style of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour.
Link: www.anthonybourdain.com
The Writings of Victor Gischler
Victor Gischler is the author of 4 hard-boiled crime novels. His debut novel GUN MONKEYS was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel SHOTGUN OPERA was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi where they beat him with rolled up newspapers and fed him raw liver. His Fifth novel GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE was recently accepted by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Victor Gischler is the author of 4 hard-boiled crime novels. His debut novel GUN MONKEYS was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel SHOTGUN OPERA was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi where they beat him with rolled up newspapers and fed him raw liver. His Fifth novel GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE was recently accepted by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Steven Heller on Paul Rand's Book Jackets and Covers
SVA MFA Design as Author Paul Rand Lecture Series
16 minute video lecture by Steven Heller on Paul Rand's Book Jackets and Covers.
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SVA MFA Design as Author Paul Rand Lecture Series
16 minute video lecture by Steven Heller on Paul Rand's Book Jackets and Covers.
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About Me:
- Working on:
Books, Books and more Books. Always Books. - Listening to:
The Raconteurs, Lucero, Placebo, Slayer, The Doves, Los Lobos, The Cinematics, First Wave Hello, Pinback, The Joy Circuit, The Life and Times, Pilot Speed, She Wants Revenge, Iron Maiden, As I Lay Dying, Film School, The Editors, Interpol, Demon Hunt - Reading:
Comic books, Bone in the Throat, Shotgun Rule - Watching:
Miami Ink, First 48, American Experience, UFC
