#51 — Divine
I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham.
- “I never thought it would happen / with me and the girl from Clapham” – excellent piece by the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon on post-punk's golden age of lyrical storytelling.
- Alex Gorosh tries to see all of the art in London in one day. For some reason, the involves a trip to the Natural History Museum.
- Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks to It's Nice That about his most-loved books, and to Dezeen about how museums are filling the void left by print magazines.
- Vintage cookbook spot illustrations. These need to make a comeback.
- Ali Almossawi has kindly made a big infographic showing the imprint-tendrils of the big five publishers. Chances are, Penguin Random House owns you and you don't even know it.
- Fabulous illustrator, cartoonist and author (not to mention my son's official portrait artist) Simone Lia has a new website, complete with details and sketches from her new book, They Didn't Teach THIS In Worm School.
- Flying Eye founder Sam Arthur talks to Creative Review about Professor Astro Cat, the Hilda series and making beautiful books for curious children.
- Banning books in prison is not just wrong, it's counterproductive.
- “All of this would suggest that the leadership of publishing corporations should already be treating senior design directors as strategic business partners” – Brian LaRossa on the evolutionary fitness of the publishing industry.
- Chip Kidd appears on the History of Batman podcast to discuss his journey into becoming a modern book jacket designer, his life-long fandom of the caped crusader, and the amazingness of 1960s Bat-Manga.
