By: Kenneth Kit Lamug,
on 4/13/2016
Since 1933, the Disney Golden Books has been one of the most popular children’s books series of all time. The classic stories matched with beautiful artwork…
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By: David Elzey,
on 9/11/2014
by Richard Scarry (mostly) Golden Books 2014 A recently discovered Scarry manuscript is unearthed... and out pops Lowly Worm! Weird-but-true, and totally irrelevant, anecdote about a Richard Scary book. Once while working in the bookstore a woman came in, furious, to return one of those cute little critter books because of its "gratuitous use of meat." Specifically, she was offended by a
Move over doggy and kitty books (unless you're a book about a cat that wants to be a bunny), adorable bunny books are in abundance and multiplying all of the time. Whether you're looking for an Easter basket filler, a simply sweet tale or something classic like The Velveteen Rabbit, we've got you covered—and twice on the "Velveteen" front.
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By: Mark G. Mitchell,
on 5/10/2012
Erik Kuntz, Amy Rose Capetta and Nick Alter made this video of the Austin Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators 2012 Regional Conference, Something for Everybody. I get a kick out of how the thumbnail on YouTube shows me in the crowd, getting a hug from illustrator Marsha Riti. So of course I had to include it here. Erik, [...]
By: John,
on 2/19/2012
How is it possible that I’ve already missed the first twenty-one days of Capture Creatures? According to the project’s site:
Capture Creatures is a year-long project where Becky Dreistadt will create 151 different hand-painted creatures, the same number as the original Pokemon. Each creature will be accompanied by a short encyclopedia entry by myself, Frank Gibson.
They’re also planning a touring gallery show when the project is complete!
I love Becky Dreistadt’s paintings - reminiscent of all the classic golden books - and Frank’s writing is such a great fit for the look. If you don’t know their comic, Tiny Kitten Teeth, go ahead and get acquainted.
By: Natasha Wing,
on 4/5/2011
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: August 1, 2010
Announcing the three very lucky winners of our Golden Beach Reads giveaway—3 prize packs of Golden Book classics. They were selected by the random sequence generator at random.org.
Kimberley W said: I would love to win these to read to my little miracle man! Many thanks for the giveaway!!
Loni said: I love the Pokey Little Puppy…was the first book I read.
Christine W said: The Poky Little Puppy was my favorite book when I was a little girl. In turn, this same book became a favorite of my daughter. I would love to win one of these prize packs for my grandson. These Golden Books are truly classics.
Lauren B said: Little Golden Books are an essential part of any child’s library…
Kathy S said: The Poky Little Puppy was one of my favorite Golden Books as a child. I’d love to have these books to start a library for my 3rd grandchild, who is due to be born early next year. I started libraries for my 2 granddaughters before they were born and they really enjoy all of the special books that were bought just for them!
Winners of TCBR giveaways are notified by email and have 72 hours to claim their prize. Unclaimed prizes are awarded to an alternate winner and the above list will be adjusted accordingly. Thank you to everyone who participated. Special thanks to Random House Children’s Books for sponsoring the giveaway.
For those of you who were not so lucky, you can still add these books to your collection: The Poky Little Puppy and Baby Farm Animals
Disclaimer: Books will be shipped directly from sponsor, delivery of the giveaway item lies solely on the sponsor. Names, e-mail address and physical address of the winner will be shared with the sponsor for the purpose of fulfillment of the giveaway.
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: July 1, 2010
We have 3 prize packs of Golden Book classics to giveaway to 3 very lucky winners. Each prize pack includes a copy of The Poky Little Puppy and Baby Farm Animals from the new Golden Book board book series. These books are a family staple!
The Poky Little Puppy overview: One of the original 12 Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy has sold nearly 15 million copies since 1942, making it one of the most popular children’s books of all time. Now this curious little puppy is ready to win the hearts and minds of a new generation of kids.
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 22 pages
Baby Farm Animals overview: The classic Little Golden Book Baby Farm Animals is now an oversized board book for children ages 0 to 5! Young children will love the big, sturdy pages and the vintage illustrations by Garth Williams. This book is perfect for reading aloud to the very youngest animal lovers.
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 26 pages
Sponsored by Golden Books/Random House.
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By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 2/2/2010
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 4/17/2009
Thanks to William Horberg williamhorberg.typepad.com
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 12/29/2008
http://goldengems.blogspot.com/
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 8/4/2008
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 7/10/2008
July 4 - August 28 at the Children's Museum of Manhattan
212 W 83rd St, New York, NY 10024
(212) 721-1234 Get directions
Illustration by Tibor Gergely, 1950, "The Great Big Fire Engine Book"
Cover illustration/typography for the Yale University Art Gallery spring catalog
Garrett Morin does great work. He draws lots of type and makes people happy. You may have seen his works in the likes of Mike Perry’s Hand Job book. If you click on over to his site, you’ll find lots of happy characters, t-shirt graphics, corn-cob pipes, animated GIFs, skateboard graphics, magazine covers, and a great animated spot for Death Cab for Cutie / MTV.
Garrett’s also a member of the Rad Mountain collective, which recently did some yummy illustrations for Good Magazine. Check it.
contemporary, Designers, graphic design, illustration, Typography, USA
1960s IBM 7094 poster - Designed by Clarence Lee
Clarence Lee graduated from Yale in 1958 and went on to work for the uber graphic designer Lester Beall. In 1962 Clarence left Beall’s firm to work for IBM. During his time at IBM he designed the poster above for the IBM 7094 Data Processing System. The 7094 was released in 1962 and was built for large-scale scientific computing.
During the late 1950s - early 1960s, Paul Rand, Charles Eames ,Marcel Breuer and Eliot Noyes were involved in design work for IBM. It would be interesting to find out if Clarence had any interaction with these designers.
electronics, graphic design, IBM, out of print, posters, USA
Jesse Kaczmarek is a one-man, super-clean design shop located in NYC. His clients include BMW, Sony, Pepsi, HBO, and on and on. The work remains consistently clean, sophisticated and fun — all at once! Just look at those happy families in their Hertz rental cars!
Also, bonus points for a super slick website.
contemporary, Designers, graphic design, illustration, USA
Silkscreen Print for a Drama magazine sponsored show at Nonesuch Gallery
Cool design work from Wyeth Hansen (Casual Aesthetics). His website includes t-shirts, posters, type faces as well some motion design. I’m loving the type work above.
(Via Wrong distance)
contemporary, graphic design, illustration, posters, Typography, USA
Giant Golden Book of Biology - An Introduction to the Science of Life c1961
Text by Gerald Ames and Rose Wyler - Illustrated by Charley Harper
It doesn’t get much better then this. This is Charley in his prime.
“In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements. When asked to describe his unique visual style, Charley responded:
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I don’t see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.[cite this quote]
He contrasted his nature-oriented artwork with the realism of John James Audubon, drawing influence from Cubism, Minimalism, Einsteinian physics and countless other developments in Modern art and science. His style distilled and simplified complex organisms and natural subjects, yet they are often arranged in a complex fashion. On the subject of his simplified forms, Harper noted:
I don’t think there was much resistance to the way I simplified things. I think everybody understood that. Some people liked it and others didn’t care for it. There’s some who want to count all the feathers in the wings and then others who never think about counting the feathers, like me.”
- Wikipedia
For those interested, I’ve posted a copy of the Giant Golden book of biology for sale on Ebay.
1960s, animals, ART, BOOKS, Charles Harper, graphic design, illustrations, kids books, Mid century, modern, out of print, USA
Luke Williams is a third year graphic design student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. While making sweet calendar-meets-packaging cubes, he is also working for Abbott Miller/Pentagram in Baltimore. From magazine and book layouts to posters and self-initiated work, Luke’s work is fresh. It’s nice to see a large body of work with this much variety, attention to detail, and experimentation with other mediums.
contemporary, Designers, graphic design, USA
Portland based designer Gavin Potenza (Exploratory Design) has cooked up a series of sweet stamps. The series which was inspired by the work of Otl Aicher is entitled Homage to the Stamp.
contemporary, ephemera, graphic design, stamps, USA
Alexander Girard alphabet blocks designed and produced by House Industries
Many thanks to the guys at House Industries for sending over a box of goodies. Included in the box was a set of Alexander Girard alphabet blocks. These blocks were the result of a collaboration with the estate of mid-century designer Alexander Girard, the 28 wood blocks feature alphabets based on the forthcoming Alexander Girard font collection and a cleverly-adapted House Industries factory logo puzzle. I have been jocking these blocks since day 1. They have been on my want list for a while. My wife and I don’t have kids yet, but when we do, I can tell you one thing for sure. There is no way the kids are going to touch these! ha! These are daddy’s blocks!
Alexander Girard, kids, modern, products, puzzles, Typography, USA
BarryBlog has posted a rare glimpse of some in-house publications for Herman Miller. They were produced in conjunction with the great design thinker Ralph Caplan, and designed by John Massey of Container Corporation of America fame. I’m drooling! I’d love to read these. Maybe we can get the good people at Barry Blog to make photo copies.
Enjoy!
1970s, articles, design theory, Herman Miller, out of print, USA
“Documentary” directed by Justin Leibow for Superfad
It’s friday and what better way to celebrate then by watching a good ole animated short.
grain edit reader and rad guy Justin Leibow sent in this animated film he directed for the Seattle Film Festival. Nude skydiving wee hoo!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
animation, contemporary, illustration, movies, USA
By: Justine Larbalestier,
on 2/5/2008
Imitation of Life by Fanny Hurst was published to great success in 1933, made into a film in 1934, and then again in 1959. All three are a fascinating window on race in the USA. Fascinating and deeply depressing.
The movies are kind of an obsession of mine. Particularly the contrast between them. So much changed in those intervening 25 years, and so very little. David Kehr in today’s New York Times describes the films thus:
Douglas Sirk’s 1959 “Imitation of Life” is among the most closely analyzed films in the Hollywood canon, a Lana Turner soap opera
turned into an exercise in metaphysical formalism by Sirk’s finely textured and densely layered images. Less well known is John M. Stahl’s first film version (1934) of this Fannie Hurst novel about the complex bond between an enterprising white businesswoman (Claudette Colbert) and the black woman (Louise Beavers) who becomes her housekeeper and supplies the secret formula for pancakes that becomes the basis of Colbert’s character’s empire.
That was the year that Hollywood began seriously to enforce what had been the largely toothless Production Code, which, among its many nefarious effects, would result in the near disappearance of socially engaged films for the next two decades. But Stahl’s “Imitation of Life” still benefits from the frankness and skepticism of the early Depression years. Though hardly free from stereotyping, it stands today as perhaps the most powerful Hollywood film about race until the civil rights movement of the 1950s.
Hardly free from stereotyping is right. The black characters are happy with their place in the world. All but the housekeeper’s daughter, Peola, who is so light-skinned she can pass for white. Yet in both films her decision to do so seems inexplicable. The black people are all happy. Why would you want to be pretend to be one of the tormented white people? Look how hard the white man’s burden is!
If you were an alien watching the movies you’d be scratching your head trying to figure out what was so very terrible about being black. In neither film are there any cafes with signs saying “Whites Only.” The black characters never have to sit at the back of the bus. There’s no mention of slavery, lynchings, or the civil rights movement.
There is one horrible scene of racism in the 1959 version, but it plays out as though racism is just that particular person’s problem, not anything systemic. The most you get in the 1935 version is the kids at school looking shocked when they discover that Peola is passing. Their reaction shot lasts less than five seconds.
One of the things that puzzles me most is that in 1934 a black actress was cast in the role of the daughter who passes as white, but in 1959 she was played by a white actress. What’s up with that? Were there truly not any light-skinned actresses of Fredi Washington’s (pictured above) calibre around in the 1950s? Colour me doubtful.1
I find the 1934 version more powerful because it doesn’t lose its focus on racism; the 1959 movie winds up being largely about Lana Turner’s scandal ridden life, specifically her daughter killing her mobster boyfriend. David Kehr’s is spot on about the final scene of both movies:
Like the Douglas Sirk version, Stahl”s “Imitation of Life” climaxes with a lavish funeral procession. But what Sirk turns into a triumph of coolly expressive visual style becomes, in Stahl”s version, a sustained march of silent protest against a system as unjust as it is deeply ingrained. The film seems unable to put a name to the monumental grief it depicts with such devastating force.
That’s a large part of the problem with boths films: they are about systemic racism and injustice, but they cannot name them. Both films are exercises in avoidance, shame, and lame liberal justifications. What fascinates me is their inability to articulate the bleeding obvious: It is unjust that the black woman who makes the white woman’s life of money and privilege gets so little for it. It is unjust that the black woman’s daughter cannot get what she wants unless she pretends to be white and then when she does that she is punished.
Both films are clear that the problem lies with Peola for trying to be something she is not. Her passing is what is at fault, not the system of racial inequality that makes passing as white an attractive path.
But most of all neither of these films are about Peola or her mother: They’re about the white woman. Claudette Colbert in the first film and Lana Turner in the second. I’ve always longed for it to be remade with the focus squarely on the black woman with the miracle pancake mix.2
Happy Super Tuesday to all you USians living in those states. Vote well! I bet Peola would be happy to see a black man in the running, but sad to see how much racial and sexual inequality still exists. But we can change that, right?
Thanks for this link...great resources!
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