As an owner of a newly purchased iPad, I’m continually amazed at all the things you can download and do with it. My newest pastime is reading newspapers, magazines, and anything else I can get my hands on. The tablet brings an exciting new level to the digital publishing platform that wasn’t there even a short time ago.
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For artists like Bristol, England-based Paul Tysall, it completely changes the game by making the possibility of creating a graphic novel solely for the tablet. He began to develop the story of Das Geheimnis in the fall of 2011 and with the help of Mag+, an app publishing platform for tablets, his story will soon be told using this new technology.
Tysall answered some questions for us about the process of making his upcoming graphic novel Das Geheimnis and his artistic process.
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One my my favorite magazines, Atomic Ranch, just came out with their second book called Atomic Ranch: Midcentury Interiors
. AR editor Michelle Gringeri-Brown and photographer and AR publisher Jim Brown make such a great team and their publisher Gibbs Smith did an excellent job with the book. It takes a look at eight postwar homes including a suburban split-level, some modernist marvels and even an aluminum kit home all of which demonstrate that modern can be comfortable, warm and inviting. If you have a modern or midcentury home, this book is just page after page of eyecandy. I feel like renovating my entire home after flipping through it!
Since we don’t really do book reviews here on Design Milk, I thought it would be a better idea to take a tour of one of the eight homes featured in the book: a 1958 Eichler from San Mateo that underwent a big facelift.
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Lithuanian designer Gogelmogel specializes in a mix of simple ideas with a side of humor. Once such example is the latest project, the Blah Blah Blah book. The book is pretty much exactly what it seems – a book filled with blah, blah, and more blahs.
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Our friends at Society6 have just revealed a brand new book project! The title is All Rights Reserved, which is not only a well-known phrase about ownership, but the impetus for Society6. The first edition (of hopefully many!) will be full color and internationally distributed. We’re so excited for them and can’t wait to see how it turns out.
To submit your work for consideration in the book you can go here to apply.
Other art publications from Society6 include:
“The New Twenties” Art Book
“Whiteout” Limited Edition Zine
“Us And Them” Limited Edition Zine
More info about the book will be available on Society6 and you can keep on top of it by signing up for their newsletter.
In an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with Society6 to offer The Design Milk Dairy, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers. Proceeds from the The Design Milk Dairy help us bring Design Milk to you every day.
Every so often the team at Society6 cooks up a really fantastic idea for a new print collection, art show or zine. This time, they partnered with over 20 artists on Us and Them, a limited edition 30-page zine with exclusive artwork.
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Index is a project that Karim Charlebois-Zariffa created back in 2008 in which he photographed everything he owned, arranged neatly, and created a 32-page book out of it.
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Artist Aaron Wexler creates some truly stunning pieces of art, but these $1 book covers are my favorite. He’s carved out the book covers and revealed the cardboard innards, creating abstract and modern patterns.
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EAT! Design with Food is a delectable new design publication and calendar that celebrates the relationship between food and design. Serving up delicious design each week, the book features 54 designers, artists and architects illuminating visual trends and special designs from the area of food, drink and nutrition.
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Wagnalls Wheel, 2010, Altered Set of Encyclopedias
What Brian Dettmer does with books is mind-blowing.
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Love these Oliver Sacks book covers designed by Cardon Webb.
