Hasta La Ideas

A while ago, for its 60th anniversary, Penguin Classics published its beautifully designed ‘Great Ideas’ series. Divided into five installments (philosophy, politics, science, etc.), the fifth is to be released this year. Each book is between 75-150 pages, with its own uniquely designed cover. They’re actually quite addictive to buy because of their fantastic price, not to mention the fact that the books themselves are great reads. I’m hoping to collect them all by the end of the year. Check out some of the series’ titles here.

His sketches are being featured at the MoMA, tracing all the way back to his childhood. Some look familiar, as many were used to develop characters for his films.

The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography has moved to the Cooper Union’s new building. Check out some of the work and studio space here. Via Creative Review Blog.

This is tomorrow show catalogue designed by Edward Wright is now online. In case you’re not familiar with the show here is some background from Wikipedia. Via Design Observer.

Terrible Yellow Eyes is a collection of artist’s work inspired by Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where The Wild Things Are. The website is full of imaginative interpretations of the book’s characters, settings and story. Clearly the original book has provided countless artists and illustrators with the motivation to create images of their own, I know that personally a grade 11 art class assignment to create an illustration for the book really sparked my interest in illustration as a profession.