“Colouring Book” by Deirdre Dyson: The London-based carpet designer embarks on a playful marketing approach




This finely crafted coloring book is the work of carpet designer Deirdre Dyson and we’re big fans of her playful, but sophisticated, approach to marketing. Because sketching and coloring carpet and textile design is intrinsic to…

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Do Book Company: New publishing house from Do Lectures produces pocket-sized guides to inspire and instruct

Do Book Company


“The idea is a simple one,” says Do Lectures founder David Hieatt, “people who do things can inspire the rest of us to go and do things too.” This is the premise of the small yet…

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The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Chip Kidd discusses designing the first English-language collection from “the master of gay erotic manga”

The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame


In book design, provocation is the name of the game. Intrigue the reader enough to pick up the work and open it—this is a process that Chip Kidd has turned into an art. From David Sedaris’ “); return…

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Jason Holroyd’s “Like a Rolling Stone” : An artistically riveting tribute to Bob Dylan’s hit song projected in motion and in a vibrant new book

Jason Holroyd's "Like a Rolling Stone"

Winning Creative Review’s Best in Book category as part of their esteemed Illustration Annual 2011, designer Jason Holroyd clearly knows how to make the paper medium an enticing experience. But it was actually Holroyd’s genius music video for the Bob Dylan classic “Like A Rolling Stone” that grabbed our…

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Litographs: Digital books screen-printed for posters and tees

Litographs

Litographs—a company known for reprinting full texts of books as posters—recently caught our eye when they sent us a custom poster printed with text from Cool Hunting articles. The execution was just too slick not to share. There in a pristinely etched screen print was a feed of our…

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Sky High: Germano Zullo’s illustrated tale of neighborly competition

Sky High

In an age-old story of keeping up with the Joneses, author Germano Zullo has created a children’s picture book that follows the fate of two rival neighbors as they compete to build the most extravagant house imaginable. The original edition of “Sky High,” written in French and published in…

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