CHIPS
Mar 31Intertitles in SINGLES
These title cards by Robert Dawson appear throughout Cameron Crowe’s Singles (1992).
May 16 2018Free logo for your Big Lebowski fan club
Found on page 241 of an 1892 Specimen book published by Palmer & Rey type founders. The full text reads Honor the Dude King, probably a reference to Evander Berry Wall, who, according to Wikipedia, was “a New York City socialite… famous for his extravagantly refined look and was crowned ‘King of the Dudes’ in the 1880s.”
Apr 3 2018Isn’t it better?
Feb 16 2018Tanlines Presents
Our friends in Tanlines, Eric and Jesse, are both stay-at-home dads. They released a new EP of kids music today, covers of classics like “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Row Your Boat”. Listen to it here. As with their previous album cover, we helped out by putting tiny type in the corners. The photo, which is not of their kids but just two kids that sort of look like them, was taken by Jenny Hueston.
Jul 27 2017Our Town
Playbill for the 1988-89 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, in which Spalding Gray played the Stage Manager.
Jul 20 2017Freud Pelican Library
This is our incomplete collection from the 1975–1977 Freud Pelican Library, purchased from the overflowing basement of the Abbey Bookshop in Paris.
Jul 17 2017Books within books
First US Edition
The dust jackets for two early editions of Italo Calvino’s If On a Winters Night A Traveler featured repeating book covers, stacked on top of one another or receding into the distance like an infinity mirror. On his blog, Peter Mendelsund proposed a paperback cover which was simply a photo of a previously-published paperback’s cover (with a design by Louise Fili).
Jul 14 2017Colors & objects
A collage of screenshots from the Wikipedia pages Gold (color), Coral (color), Eggplant (color), Bronze (color), Salmon (color), Rose (color), and Orange (colour).