Englishing + Designing

Where being and English major and designer collide: the book cover. Carissa showed me Alexander Budnitz‘s very neat book cover archive. I insist you go there and relish some good design and some good books. Isn’t there just something about old books that is intoxicatingly beautiful? This one is by Paul Rand! Budnitz is the…

Still here!

Carissa came to visit yesterday and I’ve been bustling around with my math class and thinking about graduate school. Sorry. Look at some of the cute souvenirs she got me. {Left: cute chicken notebook, handmade!; Right: Magnets} And she also picked up some graphic design magazines for me. This one had some neat ads. Here…

Do you like design? I like design.

While procrastinating yesterday I discovered fwis.com, or more specifically their book cover appreciation blog.I love good cover art. Wouldn’t that be an amazing career? To design actually meaningful covers for books? Not just two blurred people talking to each other? I added them to my blog roll. And an old favorite, The Dieline. This is…