A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Yes, it’s that word again… As is customary here, this year’s calendars have been reduced in price to $17.99, a dollar above the CafePress base cost. The Heaven and Hell calendar has sold surprisingly well so I’ll be keeping the shop active for the next couple of months. My thanks to everyone who bought one of these and other Coulthart products this Christmas.
Dark Angel, one of a series of photo-manipulations by Jared Pallesen, a New Zealand dancer (also the picture’s model). This makes me think again I should start another fetish sub-category, Men with Wings. Maybe later.
Via Front Free Endpaper.
Life magazine for August 5th, 1909, with an illustration by Coles Phillips.
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Happy new year!
I was going to post something about jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard who died this week (yes, another one). But enough people have been doing that elsewhere and I wrote about the album of his that I know best, Sing Me a Song of Songmy, back in April. Better, then, to leave a gloomy year with a smile, even if it’s only a piece of cosmic anthropomorphism. The rare trifecta of Venus, Jupiter, and the moon earlier this month was one of National Geographic’s most viewed space photos of 2008.
The Royal Mail issues this splendid set of stamps next month, celebrating their choice of “the greatest achievements of British design”. The set was designed by HGV with photography by Jason Tozer and regular readers will note two { feuilleton } cult items among the selection, the Penguin book jacket and Harry Beck’s London Underground map.
British Design Classics will be available from January 13th, 2009.