just got a copy of mike perry's latest zine, ZING, in the mail. it's great! i love how big and colorful it is. i swear, sometimes i spend so much time on the world wide intra webs it's a real delight to hold something so colorful in my hands. i'm having a hard time not ripping out the illustrations of the skulls and putting them on my walls. there are only a 100 zines made...and i'm more than positive there are way less than that now. go get yourself one. you deserve it.
i think if i had to wake up everyday and stumble into this office and stare at this wall i'd be alright w/ it. why is everything always better in helvetica? antonio carusone designed this on his office wall. antonio writes the blog aisle one, a great resource blog on typography and graphic design. you can read more about how he made it here along w/ all his super informative posts on helvetica, typography, design, etc.
words and color, and i'm all set. the work of san francisco based graphic designer liam devowski always makes me happy. the combination of his fonts, color and bittersweet statements are always refreshing. luckily for us, liam just stuck it to the man and quit his day job, now he'll be spending all day making more wonderful fonts for us to drool over. yay, us! check out his flickr page to leave him irreverent, slightly encouraging comments on his work. we don't want to go and give him a big head or anything.
i have a small fascination w/ fonts, letters and words. actually it's sort of huge. so i was really excited when i saw on lena corwin's (who has an amazing blog, that i love.) flickr page a photo of this book, handjob a cataolg of type by michael perry. it consists of handlettered fonts by fifty different artists, illustrators and typographers. including kate o'connor who i blogged about a few weeks ago. i haven't actually seen the book yet, but i've seen some of the pages on michael's website...and it's truly inspiring, i can't wait to get my hands on it (i swear that was not an intended pun). it's going on my list for xmas most definitely.
i'm not only excited to have found this book, but to have also found michael's website. it is full of wonderful photo's of work he has done. i love the new york times fashion story where his hand lettered fonts spell out some of the best fashion houses around. they are so playful and whimsical. i wish i could go back in time and take a look at michael's notebooks from his high school days, i bet they would tell a whole story about his own fascination w/ hand lettering. he's done a ton of work and it's great to be privy to it. often we are surrounded by great illustration everywhere; advertisements, catalogs, flyers, sale signs, books and magazines. illustration and hand lettering is abundant w/ in our culture of consumerism (we don't need urban outfitter's to let us know it's popular.). but so little is known about who creates these illustrations because of the media that they are used in. their handiwork is actually a means to an end and not the actual product. so it's really refreshing to hear about this book and get to take a peak into michael's artwork on his website.
all images used w/ permission from michael perry.
* handjobs for the holidays is an amazing song by broken social scene.
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