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➡️ Day 16 #eecummings
E.E.Cummings Selected Poems My two fave poems of all time are in here.
April 24, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16
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December 4, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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➡️ Day 13 #BhagavadGita
In the late 80s PBS showed this incredible live action performance of The Mahabharata. Right after this small pocket sized copy of the Gita found its way into my possession and I read it over and over.
April 21, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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➡️ Day 2 #Simarillion

I will eventually break the no explanations rule for this but today is not that day.
The cover of J.R.R. Tolkiens ‘The Simarillion’ with a beautiful illustration of a mountain pass and crackles of lightning. The style is ink drawn line work with a faint water color faded wash.
April 10, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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➡️ Day 11 #TheLittlePrince
#AntoinedeSaintExupéry
A Harvest/HBJ Book The Little Prince Written and Illustrated by Antoine de Saint Exupéry Cover image: the Little Prince stands on his small planet looking at one of the volcanoes. Behind him in the sky are stars and tiny suns.
April 20, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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➡️ Day 10 #KimStanleyRobinson
#TheYearsofRiceandSalt
The cover a paperback edition of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt. Text reads: Award winning author of the Mars Trilogy. A thoughtful, magisterial alternative history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.-The New York Times Book Review
April 18, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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➡️ Day 3 #EdgarAllenPoe
It’s not this edition and I can’t photo my copy because it’s packed away in storage. But when I was nine my Aunt gave me this huge hard cover volume that had all his short stories and all his poems in it. Image is the cover of “Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe” written in a white serif text. The image is a detailed ink illustration of a raven in black that bisects the cover.
April 12, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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➡️ Day 6 #TheDresdenFiles
#JimButcher
This whole series is so much fun to read. Goofy? Yes often (c’mon, an undead T-Rex controlled by drumming in book 7? Get outta here…) but overall well written stuff. Cover shows an artist’s interpretation of what Harry Dresden the lead character may look like in his overcoat, hat and staff. Title says “Storm Front” and has Jim Butcher in equally sized san serif raised red letters.
April 14, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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➡️ Day 14 #UniverseInASingleAtom
#TheDalaiLama

Beautifully designed book cover.
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality Book by 14th Dalai Lama Cover shows Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama in black and white with a burst of color, stars and atomic imagery along the bottom.
April 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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➡️ Day 7 #UltimateAlbumCoversAlbum
#RogerDean (yes that Roger Dean)
#DavidHowells
1987
Coffee table book size. The cover is a blend of art styles: art deco, asian, and pop. The illustration is a woman facing the viewer with her head turned, chin in hand, holding a cigarette. A vinyl record covers part of her face almost as if it were a hat. The book is the compilation of three previously published volumes plus new additions. Text is geared more for people in the design and commercial art industry, not collectors or connoisseurs.
April 15, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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➡️ Day 1 #Candide

“The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Unless you ask...) I won’t tag anyone in to play, but I hereby invite all of you to join the party if you’d like!”
The cover of Penguin Classics VOLTAIRE CANDIDE With a painting of a guy stripping off his red trousers while still wearing his shirt and hat. A dog looks up at him from the corner. Behind him a bed and nightstand.
April 9, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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#JapaneseDesignMotifs
#FumieAdachi
#JapaneseDesign

#logos #crests #branding
Japanese Design Motifs 4,269 ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPANESE CRESTS Compiled By The MASTSUYA PIECE-GOODS STORE Translated by Fumie Adachi Cover is black with red or orange examples of different Daimyo and Shogun crests. Friends, let me tell you this. The Nippon feudal lords understood branding and the importance of a good logo centuries before Terry Heckler ever drew breath or heard of Starbucks. I still draw a lot of knowledge on crafting a solid useful logo but studying these.
April 18, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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November 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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➡️ Day 18 #Bartenders
A blue hardcover book with no illustrations except a small martini in the lower center in black. Cover text says: New AMERICAN BARTENDER’S Handbook I love the absolute minimalist simplicity of this cover. Also, I bought it because I was going to have a swanky little bar on my gorgeous pnang table from Thailand but it’s never worked out where I’ve been in a place I could do that.
April 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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➡️ Day 4 #ADistantSoil
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A Distant Soil Immigrant Song by Colleen Doran Illustrated Science Fiction Fantasy from STARBLAZE Graphics The cover is a gorgeous composite illustration of two of the main characters with locations, outer space and art nouveau style decorative design elements. The color palette is blue, cyan, earthy dark amber, gold and white. I will fight anyone that says this isn’t a book.
April 12, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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November 4, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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➡️ Day 15 #IndiePublishing
#EllenLupton
INDIE PUBLISHING How to Design and Produce Your Own Book edited by Ellen Lupton A guide fir authors, artists and designers When I was in design school for the second go at getting my second degree, one of our courses was to design and build a lyric book for one band. I bought this to help me out. I keep this in my “grab & run if there’s a fire” bag because I never want to be without it.
April 23, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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➡️ Day 17 #PuSongling 🤩
#StrangeTalesfromLiaozhai
Around the same era when Galileo and Issac Newton were doing their thing, Pu Songling was doing something unintentionally innovative for writing. He gathered and compiled stories (folk tales, rumors, myths, etc) and wrote them down. Some claim he altered the stories so they taught moral lessons. Others say he only copied down what he was given. In the end he had collected an impressive collection of 431 tales of the strange and supernatural. At one time his work was banned in China, but the stories were so beloved people hid their copies. The version shown is the one I own but I confess I feel the art could be a lot better and the cover design is mostly boring. Liaozhai means "Studio of Conversation" or "Studio of Leisure” btw.
April 26, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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➡️ Day 8 #J.O’Barr #TheCrow
THE CROW Written in red serif text. Below it is an illustration done by O’Barr of Eric Draven kneeling beside a stone cemetery angel. Beneath that is the author’s name written in the same typeface only at a smaller point size. Did I own this before I saw the film? No. Unfortunately. It is a fantastic graphic novel, six times more violent and brutal than the films and a lot more open in its commentary on that violence and brutality. Rumor says it’s based on true events but what those events are changes every decade.
April 17, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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➡️ Day 5 #PoppyZBright
Back in my goth/industrial days it was cool to read Anne Rice who I thought was boring. I did enjoy this if I remember. Planning on reading again so will let you know if it’s survived well or not. Cover is Poppy Z Bright’s WORMWOOD with a distorted gothy face on it. Face is pale with scratches and the person has dark hair. A promotional quote from Harlan Ellison is also on the cover: Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them… This is the voice we’re going to be hearing for a long time. He was pretty incorrect though.
April 14, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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➡️ Day 12 #JosefAlbers
#InteractionofColor
Josef Albers Interaction of Color Revised and Expanded Edition Cover art is a flawless minimal piece of four rectangles all layered over in each other to create new shades. The paperback has remained in print ever since 1971 and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers. This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds.
April 21, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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➡️ Day 20 #StefanGBucher
#344Questions

I’m detouring a bit for the last day’s submission.
Stefan Bucher’s 344 Questions. Bucher is a designer, author and illustrator in Pasadena CA. Right after he published this he came to speak at our design school as part of a student AIGA event. The book is filled with questions and discussion about the creative process. First edition had a flaw in that if you wrote on the pages as you were encouraged to do, the ink came off on the other side of the page. Bucher released a second edition with different paper and ink, and enlarged with more space to write. (Were these changes based on those exact suggestions I sent him? We will never know.) The cover is a medium cyanish turquoise with typography and question bubbles hand drawn by Bucher in his signature style. My original copy, signed by Bucher on the interior title page. An example of the inside pages. When I first got this book I found it difficult to answer most of these questions because they came from a place of economic privilege that I didn’t have. When you’re living in student housing at 47 because you were homeless before you started school, you’re working two jobs with a full course load, and you’re struggling to feed yourself, questions about taking a rest feel impossible. Eventually I hope I will finally be financially stable enough to engage with this book more.
April 28, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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➡️ Day 19 #FrakturMonAmour
#Typography #FrakturType
#JudithSchalansky
#DesignBooks #TypographyBooks
I should have taken photos of some of the interior pages and show how THICK this tome is. I bought it in 2015 at an art Museum in SoCal. It came with a CD that had hundreds of fraktur typefaces for you to own & use. It’s glorious. I keep it at my desk and it’s like having a secret tawdry porn stash disguised and displayed out in the open. I’m sweating just thinking about it. 😍🥵😁 The cover is all black with the name of the book in hot pink fraktur type. Two ribbon bookmarks come out of the spine; one black and one hot pink. The edges of the pages are hot pink as well.
April 27, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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