d:r editor’s inspiration
Type City
This is a cool, immersive type site that uses the arrow keys to navigate through a landscape of layered type cutout shapes.
This is a cool, immersive type site that uses the arrow keys to navigate through a landscape of layered type cutout shapes.
Link: Veer Type City
The 10 Best Books of 2007
The New York Times announced their picks for the 10 Best Books of 2007. (for reading, not design)
credits for image shown: from NYT online, Design by Paul Sahre; photograph by Tony Cenicola
Man Gone Down
By Michael Thomas. Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic
Out Stealing Horses
By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press
The Savage Detectives
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Then We Came to The End
By Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown & Company
Tree of Smoke
By Denis Johnson. Jacket Design by Susan Mitchell. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nonfiction
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone.
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Alfred A. Knopf
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Bantam Books
The Nines: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
By Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
By Linda Colley. Pantheon Books
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.
By Alex Ross. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
(will fill in additional jacket design credits when discovered)
The New York Times announced their picks for the 10 Best Books of 2007. (for reading, not design)
credits for image shown: from NYT online, Design by Paul Sahre; photograph by Tony Cenicola
Man Gone Down
By Michael Thomas. Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic
Out Stealing Horses
By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press
The Savage Detectives
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Then We Came to The End
By Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown & Company
Tree of Smoke
By Denis Johnson. Jacket Design by Susan Mitchell. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nonfiction
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone.
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Alfred A. Knopf
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Bantam Books
The Nines: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
By Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
By Linda Colley. Pantheon Books
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.
By Alex Ross. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
(will fill in additional jacket design credits when discovered)
The Best Online Radio
Pandora.com is the best alternative to listening to the radio since, well, listening to the radio. Choose an artist or a song title and pandora magically makes you a station based on the kind of music you chose. Now it's not always perfect, and that's ok because you can just give the songs you hate a big thumbs down.
Pandora.com is the best alternative to listening to the radio since, well, listening to the radio. Choose an artist or a song title and pandora magically makes you a station based on the kind of music you chose. Now it's not always perfect, and that's ok because you can just give the songs you hate a big thumbs down.
Link: Pandora
